Audio: On The Score With Hans Zimmer
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It’s a composer’s job to unlock the imagination of their directors, translating their flights of fantasy into melody. Few musical dreamweavers have shown as much imaginative dexterity in that regard as Hans Zimmer. Yet even fewer directors have given Zimmer a true match for his talent like Christopher Nolan, whose enigmatic oeuvre consists of such head scratchers as “Memento,” “Insomnia” and “The Prestige,” not to mention two movies featuring The Dark Knight, whose imposing bleakness was abetted by the anti-hero rhythms of Zimmer and James Newton Howard.
If hearing Nolan’s imagination was a tough nut for Zimmer to crack before, then his new film “Inception” takes the filmmaker’s intellectual bent to spectacularly inscrutable heights. It’s a brain-bending, sci-fi tinted mix of “Mission Impossible,” impeccably dressed James Bond action and enough meditations on the nature of humanity and dreams to make Carlos Castaneda scratch his head. Providing a thematic through line to “Inception”‘s multiple, and insanely complicated plains of dream action is an equally surreal, and beautifully thrilling score by Hans Zimmer. He’s given “Inception” an unceasing atmosphere where “Blade Runner” synth vibes swim with adrenalin guitar builds by Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr, emotional anguish and booming percussion that drive Nolan’s dreams without end. And in a thoroughly engaging film that’s almost defiant of its sci-fi origins, it’s Zimmer’s music that truly places Nolan’s thought processes in a sonically surreal realm, his dazzling themes the glue on which “Inception”’s complicated story hangs together. For if this director has truly jumped into the rabbit hole here, than Hans Zimmer has gleefully followed with his most deliriously imaginative score yet.
Now on a new episode of “On the Score,” the composer lets us invade his mind to see what ticks behind this unique, and hypnotic score that plays like a waking dream.
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Buy the Soundtrack: THE DARK KNIGHT |
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Listen to the previous ON THE SCORE show featuring John Debney
Comments
By jXe on July 13th, 2010 at 19:37
great interview daniel, hans seems like a very cool guy. I can see why all the guys that come out of remote control highly respect him. I hope some time in the future you get John Powell on tape. Also loved the Debney interview, Cutthroat Island kicks ass!
By blondie on July 14th, 2010 at 03:22
great interview thanks
By Peter Weis on July 26th, 2010 at 11:05
Great stuff. With Sherlock Holmes and now inception Zimmer really seams to be going even heavier on brining sound design elements into the score in musical ways.
By Peter on July 28th, 2010 at 10:05
Interesting. I loved the score for Inception. A thing that popped up on the web recently, got a few people thinking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM&feature=player_embedded
By Larry on August 5th, 2010 at 12:11
Bruce Fowler’s Bass Trombones and the other low brass & strings are really what give the dark feel of the ‘orchestral’ flavors. Enjoyed it a lot. Great orchestrations Bruce.
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