This is surprising to me, given the overwhelming and almost cult acclaim Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack has accumulated. Daft Punk has since disbanded in the years following Legacy’ s release, and they did not produce music for any other films.Īctually, since Legacy, no film has utilized a popular artist in the same way for an original score. The band’s style blended perfectly with the aesthetic of the film, and they were able to make it sound unique enough from their standalone music to feel natural in the film. Tron: Legacy represented the perfect mash-up of a popular artist with an original film score composition. Much of the positive critical reception the film received was dedicated to the original score, which went on to be nominated at the 2012 Grammy Awards. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, one-half of the duo, stated at one point that “Tron was cut to the music” from the start. They proved to be a perfect match for the film, especially given their inclination to pair music with visuals. When they agreed to score Tron: Legacy, Daft Punk took a direction that was slightly different then their normal productions by combining their typical electronic sound with that of orchestral music, to provide a more cinematic feel. The pair were chosen specifically because director Joseph Kosinksi wanted to “try something fresh and different,” while still honoring continuity from the synth-filled, futuristic soundtrack of Tron (dir. Joseph Kosinksi, 2010), created by the French electronic duo Daft Punk. But none of these have struck the same chord of success that was the score of Tron: Legacy (dir. Spike Jonez, 2013), or RZA’s production of the original music for Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (dir. Some examples of this would include Arcade Fire’s composition of the score for Her (dir. While most people never appreciated Takemitsu’s achievement in its original, greatly truncated album, Kritzerland’s new, complete release of his score (complete with jazz Karaoke and furious drumming by Tsunami) is a chance to discover one of the 90s most intriguing scores.Sometimes, the crossover between popular music and film score is less of a career transition for artists and more of a one-off instance.
The tantalizing results are very much the sound of an alien in LA, conveying his country’s age-old identity with a distinctively strange grasp of a murder mystery score, two musical identities that make for a soundtrack of startling mystery and erotic beauty. Yet there’s a Japanese sensibility at play in Takemitu’s use of his country’s Koto, flutes and ethnic drumming.
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But it’s just the jumping off point for RISING SUN to venture into beautiful, impressionistic weirdness with the horror movie sound of a Theremin-like Ondes Martenot, eerie reverberated percussion, tingling strings. A sexy, smoky sax gives erotic heat to the film’s murder mystery, with the kind of brass feeling that could be right out of an old school Warner Brothers picture. One of Japan’s most revered movie composers for his work on KWAIDAN, WOMAN IN THE DUNES and RAN, Takemitsu’s sole work truly stands out for his mastery of the distinctly American genre form known as film noir.
Where most Hollywood “Asian” movies usually kowtowed Orientals into secondary positions below the American actors (though mixed up a bit in this case with the brogue of Sean Connery and the urban cool of Wesley Snipes), we can credit RISING SUN director Philip Kaufman for bringing some level of authenticity to this thriller’s cultural melange by hiring Toru Takemitsu for his sole Hollywood film.
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