Word: musication
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...Most films have three or four emotional moments where you need a great song, but this film probably has six or seven moments where you absolutely needed music. From the beginning, Marc filled up some iPods and gave them to the actors and said, "Here you go - this is the direction we're going...
...What sound tracks do you look to for inspiration? Oh, there are so many. Anything by Danny Boyle - Shallow Grave is my favorite. With all his films, the music and the story are completely tied together. One can't exist without the other, and that's the same way I'd make a film. High Fidelity is one of my all-time favorites...
...that pretty common, where you can't even get access to the songs you want to use? Oh yeah. Writer Scott Neustadter and I couldn't have more similar music tastes, and we loved, loved, loved the new Kings of Convenience album, but it didn't come out in time. A big theme for the film could have been one of their older songs, "Toxic Girl," but it didn't really fit any of the scenes because it was a little too much on the nose and told the story almost exactly...
...Night of the Living Dead, those slow-moving, post-mortem drudges of West African mythic origin are now the hot horror creature. The PR is positively zombastic. They have their own anthem - Zombies Are the New Black, by the Philly pop-punk sextet The Wonder Years - and their own music video, which you may have seen in the past month or so: Michael Jackson's Thriller. The Walking Dead have even been invoked as emblems of our current financial malaise. Their chief apologist and spin doctor, TIME's Lev Grossman, trumpets the zombie as "the official monster of the recession...
...long skirts of cascading ruffles and scarlet flowers in their black hair, sat in chairs in front of the guitarist, a flutist, and a singer. Reflecting the highly improvisatory nature of this art form, the dancers and musicians each took turns initiating pieces. Each performer remained seated until the music motivated her to begin. Once she took the stage, the others concentrated on her movements and kept time according to her lead, with a complex rhythmic pattern emerging from the clapping, finger snapping, and lighting quick clicking of their heels. Interwoven through it all, the lone female singer called plaintively...