Transcript The New Millenium

The New Millennium
America’s Role in World Culture
• Other countries try to copy American culture
• Non-Western regions:
– Combine American pop traits & ethnic melody
instrument and singing voice in style of region
– Bollywood: India
9/11 and Hollywood
• Inhibited making films about current events
due to fear of being racially prejudiced
• Turned instead to fantasy/adventure stories
– Doesn’t offend anyone if the hero is killing aliens
or robots
Realism Continued
• Black Hawk Down (2001) Hans Zimmer
– U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture lieutenants of a
warlord and find themselves in a battle in 1993
– Blends American popular music and Middle Eastern
Muslim music
• Pearl Harbor (2001)  Hans Zimmer
– Love Story set against historical backdrop
• Theme for Danny & Rafe is used for Danny & Evelyn; Rafe & Evelyn
get their own theme
– Uses music to portray Japanese as thoughtful
– Powerful choral lament during bombing
– Theme song doesn’t work due to style mismatch
Moulin Rouge (2001)
• Revitalized the musical genre
• Includes performers whose acts are part of
the story
• All of the songs but one are borrowed from
other sources
• Postmodern story: Characters drawn from 19th
opera. Men are artist types and woman of
loose morals dies at the end
Moulin Rouge Songs
• Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend
• Elephant Love Medley
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All You Need is Love (Beatles)
Heroes (David Bowie)
Up Where We Belong (from An Officer & A Gentleman)
I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston)
– One More Night (Phil Collins)
– Pride (In the name of love) (U2)
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Your Song
Like a Virgin
Roxanne
Return of the Musical
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2001: Moulin Rouge
2002: Chicago
2003: School of Rock
2004: The Phantom of
the Opera, Ray
• 2005: The Producers,
Rent
• 2006: Dreamgirls
• 2007: Across the
Universe, Enchanted,
Hairspray, Sweeney Todd
• 2008: Mama Mia!
• 2009: Fame
• 2010: Burlesque
• 2011: Footloose
• 2012: Rock of Ages, Les
Miserables, Pitch Perfect
• 2014: Into the Woods
Escapist Fantasy/Adventure Films
• Harry Potter
– John Williams composed 1st 3 scores
– Main themes: Hedwig A & Hedwig B
• Stand for all things magical
• Used the celeste to create a childlike magical sound
– (like Home Alone & Sugar Plum Fairy)
– All composers used the Hedwig theme to maintain
continuity
Harry Potter Composer Comparison
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Sorcerer’s Stone (Williams)
Chamber of Secrets (Williams)
Prisoner of Azkaban (Williams)
Goblet of Fire (Patrick Doyle)
Order of the Phoenix (Nicholas Hooper)
Half Blood Prince (Nicholas Hooper)
Deathly Hallows I (Alexandre Desplat)
Deathly Hallows II (Alexandre Desplat)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• 3 Films based on a series of novels by J.R.R.
Tolkien
– Fellowship of the Rings
– The Two Towers
– Return of the King
• Score by Howard Shore
• 11 Hours of Music: large use of leitmotifs for
places and characters
• Orchestration:
Main Themes
• The Shire
• The Fellowship
• The Ring