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[Fernando Rivas]

Such subtle moments are what film composing is about.  99% drudgery and then
one of those.


On 1/19/08 4:17 PM, "Sarakin, Lloyd (LAW)" <Lloyd.Sarakin at am.sony.com>
wrote:

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