EXCUSE ME, HANS ZIMMER…
What gives you the right to make the Interstellar soundtrack so frisson-inducing?
What gives you the right.
Nate and I watched Interstellar the other night. It was the first time either of us had seen it. The movie itself was quite good, but the soundtrack?
HOLY.
GALACTIC.
BALLS.
BATMAN.
It’s Hans Zimmer, so of course it’s going to be good, but JEEBUS.
I listened to the following song (No Time for Caution) on my cheap-ass $5 walking headphones and I got frisson so badly at the 2:35–minute mark that I felt it in my groin.
The STRINGS. They BURN SO GOOD.
I’d heard Mountains before ever watching the movie, but No Time for Caution is so much better.
HNNNNNNNG.
RIP James Horner
SAD NEWS: the amazing composer James Horner was, in fact, killed the other day when his plane went down in California.
Who is James Horner, you ask?* He’s the conductor/composer behind a lot of really fantastic film scores. Examples:
- The Land Before Time
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
- We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story
- Braveheart
- Titanic
- The Perfect Storm
He also did the score for Apollo 13, which has my favorite movie song ever (listen to it here!). Seriously. Awesome.
R.I.P. James Horner. You were an awesome composer.
*Or maybe you don’t ask this. Maybe more people are familiar with his name and works than the news would have us believe.
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