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Thursday, 22 September 2016

Avatar Music/Soundtrack Review



Let me just start off by saying this: James Horner… you are the man!


(Look at him! Bless his genius musical score writing cotton socks!)

For those of you who don’t know who James is, he is the guy behind basically all of your favourite movie soundtracks. His awesome self has composed all the music and has been the one conducting the music for movies like Avatar (obviously), Titanic, The Karate Kid, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Jumanji- I could seriously keep going on and on.

In terms of his work in Avatar (2009)- boy, he definitely didn’t disappoint! I have to admit that I may or may not have fallen asleep when I first watched the movie… BUT! I can safely say that in the parts that I was awake for I absolutely loved the soundtrack! So much so, I even went online and listened to most of the soundtrack and was happily content with what I was listening to.

The reason why I love the Avatar soundtrack so much is because Horner has composed
each ‘song’ (for lack of a better word) in a way that really portrays what’s happening on screen. The way he has done this allows the viewer to have an understanding about the tone and mood of the film at that certain point in time as well as providing the audience with a way to try to understand what the music is trying to indicate about what’s going to happen next.  

In simple and non-Micayla-like terms, James Horner has excellently demonstrated how having shrill noises and lots of ‘booms’ and loud sounds can indicate the death of a main character (SPOILER ALERT) during battle as well as how the sweet sounding melodies and fairy/fantasy like sounds can indicate the happy ending that the Na’vi people deserve.

I could go into heaps of detail about the hella cool way the sound effects were created but that would need a whole other day to be able to go on about the technicalities.

All in all, I really liked this soundtrack and would highly recommend for people to watch the movie just so they can understand how great James Horner’s composing skills are and what I just babbled on about for the past couple of hundred words!


Ta ta for now,

Micayla 

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