Inception soundtrack weird ?

"andy" said:
he did like...


but anyway am i the only one missing the point of that vid ?
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Nolan wrote "Non, je ne regrette rien" into the screenplay but was going to take it out before Zimmer told him to keep it in and used it as inspiration for the very piece in the OP.
 
Pretty much although if the director doesn't like what he hears he'll get someone else to do it although at this stage it is very late in the process so the new composer has only a few weeks to produce a score.
 
Woody__ said:
It is. The composer is picked by the director on the basis that they need write the music with little input from the director himself.
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Little input? No chance. A director would never just leave it solely to the composer to write music for their film. The audio is such an integral part to a film it would never be kept so separate or the director have such little input.

NormanPorkinson said:
Love the score for this! Those dark bassy stabs that you hear in the trailer etc... are incredible! The score in this is 20% of the experience!
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Agreed! Very cool:

 
WeOwnTheSky said:
Little input? No chance. A director would never just leave it solely to the composer to write music for their film. The audio is such an integral part to a film it would never be kept so separate or the director have such little input.
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I didn't say kept separate, but most directors don't have a say in the actual COMPOSITION of the score, just it's application after the film is complete.

Wiki said:
Nolan asked Zimmer to compose and finish the score as he was shooting the film. The composer said, "He wanted to unleash my imagination in the best possible way".

Zimmer did not assemble a temp score but "every now and then they would call and say 'we need a little something here.' But that was OK because much of the music pieces aren't that scene specific. They fall into little categories".
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If the director had a say in the actual creation of the music then they would be quite capable of scoring the films themselves. However, as it stands, the director generally decides on the application of the music, with the score being written by the composer having been inspired by the film. The director clearly has a final say in where it's been used in the movie.

This particular instance, Nolan wouldn't have said to Zimmer "I want you to write a song...WITHIN A SONG." I can't imagine any director saying that.

A good example of a director taking control of the score, though, is pretty much evident in all Wes Anderson movies. He's such an auteur that he usually picks the soundtrack and applies it to the film himself, hardly ever relying on a score of sorts.
 
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