There Will be Milkshakes. And a Great Soundtrack.
Finally had the chance to sit down and give a listen to Johnny Greenwood’s original score for There Will be Blood. This is killer study music, moody and intricate. There a lot of cello and violin work mixed with synth bits, and it works pretty well. There’s also a pretty solid percussion track (Track 8: Proven Lands) and a couple concerto-like pieces. If that’s not your thing, here’s a stupid video by Kevin Kunze about your favorite after-burger beverage:
I REALLY want to see this movie but being preggers limits what I can see without being severely affected or bursting into tears…
But maybe I CAN withstand the soundtrack… I do need some more writing music in my library!
mercurial scribe
February 12, 2008 at 8:51 am
http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/02/15025.html
The milkshake line from There Will Be Blood came from a transcript that PT Anderson found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal.
Anderson concedes that he’s puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.
In explaining oil drainage, Fall’s “way of describing it was to say ‘Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I’ll end up drinking your milkshake,’ ” Anderson says. “I just took this insane concept and used it.”
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=1959
gatos
February 12, 2008 at 1:40 pm