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[Sarakin, Lloyd (LAW)]

kiki, reading your description almost brought me to tears and swelling
with emotion... nice description... i didnt see the movie yet...

 

Subtle details in scores take my breath away...for example...last week
we watched "The Queen" (scored by Alexandre Desplat). In one scene Queen
Elizabeth II is checking out the floral tributes to Princess Diana in
London. As she's walking by the crown the queen notices a little girl
holding flowers. The Queen offers to place the flowers for the girl, who
refuses the queen. In that brief moment of tension, the third in the
melody (which had been major up to this point) changes to a minor third.
When the girls explains that the flowers are not for Diana and are for
the Queen, the queen nearly has a British emotional breakdown (the
corners of her lips move upward almost imperceptably and you see in
actor Helen Mirren's eyes that the queen is truly moved). At that point
the third returns to a major third and the music swells ever so
slightly, mirroring the restraint of the British monarchy. Those breaths
of inspiration fascinate me. 

 

Kiki