Best Use of Prog in Film

Hi,

Being into film as I am, it is very sad to see us talking about the music in the film as "progressive" or as anything else.

In general, almost all film uses music in the "Hollywood" style, simply to generate some more emotion to any given moment. The whole thing has gotten so out of line, and BAD, that we can not conceive of a moment WITHOUT MUSIC, which was something that Alfred Hitchcock played with until he turned around and used Bernard Herrman.

We're critters of habit. We can't live in "silence", and have to add some soundtrack to our lives, and while it is entertaining, in the end, it has a way of infecting you with its own disease.  And it is hard to get off that disease that is not about you and your sensibilities, meaning you get caught up in "favorites", and when you do that you lose the ability to hear something else.

Ex: Jean Luc Godard was famous for intentionally putting music where there shouldn't be any, or vice versa.

Ex2: Horror films intentionally displace by seconds the music or the sound effect to shake you, since the sound is not natural.

Ex3: Monty Python, has intentionally started "music" in the wrong place to satirize many a film.

There are a few films that have used music, as a "part of the story" and a "part of the film" instead of a fantasy musical a la high school that you went to. Some examples:

ExA: More, the first film by Barbet Schroeder with Pink Floyd music. The girl in the story had PF on her cassette recorder and she played it while tripping. In some ways, this helped people think that PF was a drug band and the music was perfect for dope. Barbet did not repeat his excellent use of music, in his next films.

ExB: Purple Rain, has the music as a part of the story, instead of anything else. It helped add a lot more to the emotional state of the film, specially when he had to go on stage or off the stage. Helped elevate the quality of the music and the film. Prince has never been able to duplicate that excellence in film.

There are a couple of others, notably the satire one, but in general, most music even mentioned here, will stand up on its own, even if it weren't for the film. I never bought GOBLIN because of the films ... I had the music, before I EVER saw any of the films! And I have rarely gone out and bought music by anyone that did music in the films. As much as you , or I can appreciate Maurice Jarre, none of us has any of the albums of music. And Dr. Zhivago's soundtrack is one for the ages and very memorable, and stands out as one of the great musical masterpieces ever in film. It also stands out on its own without the film. AS IS THE CASE WITH GREAT COMPOSERS!

We're missing the point ... unless you want to relive your childhood a la Forrest Gump! Which is what the majority of this thread is about!