I love movies...plain and simple. I especially love the connection of music in film and how powerful the two can be when combined appropriately. Any filmmaker can just pick some popular songs and throw them into a movie or they can have someone else do it altogether. But a in truly great film a filmmaker will be thinking about the music thru the entire process. For instance Geroge Lucas, while writing the original Star Wars scripts(the old ones, not the new ones) listened to classical music and connected certain pieces with particular scenes leading to John Williams creating one of the most amazing musical scores in film history. The director of The Social Network, David Fincher, began his film career making music videos, so it's certainly no coincidence that all his films have tremendous music that accompanies them. So it came as no surprise that he would reunite with his former collaborator on Seven, Trent Reznor, to create the score for his new film. Immediately when I heard that this was happening I fully expected the vibe of the film to be intense, enourmous and even a bit creepy and that's exactly what it turned out to be. Of course being the wacko fan that I am I paid close attention to the score and how it related to each scene, even moreso than normal because of who made it. Sometimes in film it is better not to actually hear the score because often times when you do it's because it is the wrong choice. The two should act as one. It should be seamless but still effective. In The Social Network the score really ads to the enormity of the situations in the film, anything less than that would have significantly hurt the power of the story. Make sure you get out and see the film, it's really great.
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