Wakamatsu Koji's "United Red Army"

[Mark Nornes]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Mark D. Roberts wrote:

> The score is credited to Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth, and many  
> times during the last hour I was (1) baffled by the seemingly  
> arbitrary or inappropriate choices to key certain bits of music to  
> particular scenes, and (2) surprised to hear music of, shall we  
> say, pedestrian sentiment, from a former member of Sonic Youth. To  
> be fair, he likely just composed the music without seeing the film,  
> and somebody else scored it, or else the intention was to create  
> some sort of emotional dissonance. Given that it's Wakamatsu at the  
> helm, I suppose neither possibility can be ruled out. Finally, I  
> just tuned out the score and tried to focus on the treatment of the  
> violence.

Umm, not to shut down discussion, but it might change the way you  
write things when your directing criticism at your community.....Jim  
has been a member of KineJapan in the past, so we should keep it  
civil, if honest and rigorous.

Jim are you still there? It would be great to hear your take on the  
role of music, and on the film itself.

Markus









A. M. Nornes
Professor
Department of Screen Arts & Cultures
Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
University of Michigan
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Suite 6111, 202 South Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48104-1608
Phone:  (734) 647-2094; FAX: x0157
Homepage: www.umich.edu/~amnornes


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/private/kinejapan/attachments/20071022/a95ab6a7/attachment.html