Word: soundtracking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video to make it suitable for broadcast, and she has high hopes. However, almost immediately after the video begins playing, Leleina realizes that her serious work has been transformed into an MTV-style mish-mash of jumpy editing, silly graphics, and meaningless buzz words topped off with a soundtrack of hip tunes. Disillusioned, she tells Michael that their relationship is over and she storms out of the building...
...lunge at hipness comes when Troy's band performs an original song called "I'm Nothin,"' in which the opening lyrics are "I got a pothead momma/I got a cokehead dad" and it's downhill from there. Apparently, Hawke wrote this song himself and it is available on the soundtrack album...
...people buy soundtracks? Last year the soundtrack to that stupid movie with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner stayed at number one for weeks, and some movies now seem like no more than extended videos for their soundtracks. You could sit back and listen to the tunes from "Singles" while the movie was still in production. There are only two possible motivations for owning a soundtrack: either it has something to do with the movie itself--you know, replicating that feeling of awe as you walk out of the theater, pretending that your life is as coherent and meaningful...
Which brings me to the matter at hand: the soundtrack to "In the Name of the Father," a pretty good movie about the Guildford Four ("Falsely Accused. Wrongly Imprisoned"-surely you know the story by now). Why would you want to buy this slickly packaged item? Good question. Despite a few strong new compositions and a handful of rock standards, there's no overarching logic to this collection, and there is too much filler...
Which is much more than I can say for the remaining filler on the soundtrack, which is original score pieces by Trevor Jones. If you want to relive the horror of a forced confession, or feel the pain of the passage of fifteen long years in a British prison, and you find it necessary to have the boring electronic mood music featured in the movie to do so, then these songs are for you. Basically they take the spacey and percussive element I mentioned in the Friday/Seezer/Bono songs and push it way over the top. It doesn't make...