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There comes a moment in almost every movie romance when words no longer suffice and the music must rise to the occasion. From the initial meet-cutes to the heated arguments and all those third-act sprints to win back the girl, a movie's sound track often does the heavy lifting, providing all the needed passion, heartache and poetry. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer, with a sound track ranging from Wolfmother to Carla Bruni, hits all the right notes, with a few surprising ones thrown in. (Hall & Oates?) TIME talked to (500) Days music supervisor Andrea...
...What are the hallmarks of the ideal romantic sound track? (Listen to TIME's sound track above.) You always have to start with the joy. I think in anything, it's the same pattern, whether you're old or young - there's a honeymoon period where everything's amazing and you can't wait to see that person and everything is very urgent and joyous and amazing. But then things start to get complicated and painful. In (500) Days, Tom, the main character, goes through the full cycle - and this is a very realistic love story, in that everything doesn...
...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...
...theirs forever - unlike a zombie, whom you can escape just by walking briskly in the opposite direction. Vampires have savoir-faire and star quality; a vampire is Johnny Depp, a zombie John C. Reilly. And they're always impeccably dressed. What do zombies wear? Rags! Not to sound elitist, but zombies are just rabble. Vampires always have been, always will be, the aristocrats of monsters...
...regularly do? These are distinctions I've heard you expound—how educated African Americans switch their register of speech depending on what part of themselves they want to get across. Many of us do something similar inside and outside our particular communities, but you make it sound like a sport that is also for African Americans a tool of survival. So why didn't you address the policemen as fellow Cantabrigians? What was that "yo' mama" talk instead of saying simply, in the same register your interlocutor was using, "Look, officer, I'm sorry for your trouble. Thanks...