Truman... where are you going?
“The Truman Show” is one of those movies I can watch no matter what I’m doing when it comes on, and no matter how far into it the movie already is. You flip around the channels, and there it is, and I’m sucked in.
A little while ago when I realized that I probably like minimalist music, I bought the soundtrack and have been enjoying it daily.
There’s a great scene in the movie when Truman is (apparently) asleep, and the pianist is just sort of noodling to fill the space. People leave Truman on for comfort during the night, you know.
You know about “leitmotif“? For my purposes, it’s when each character gets his or her own theme, and it’s introduced into the soundtrack when the action focuses on that character. For example, here’s Princess Leia’s theme:
Over time, a character’s leitmotif may evolve, becoming dissonant, hopeful, morose, what-have-you. Or, let’s say you have two characters who are in love:
Over yet still more time, as the characters realize they can never be together (because one is a vampire and the other a vampire slayer), introducing this music will almost certainly make your audience cry. The music is the same, but the characters have evolved around it.
I was just thinking: in the context of The Truman Show, the composers had thirty years of music to write for a real human being. Imagine how many leitmotifs they must have developed.
Heck, the neighbor’s dog probably had his own.
10 April 2008, 16:13
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