Re: ALEXANDRE DESPLAT - THE MONUMENTS MEN (2014)
: czw lut 06, 2014 00:50 am
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Auć!If you’ve ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to Monuments Men. (...) But his work in Monuments Men is dreadful — and, worse, all but nonstop. Desplat and his 110-piece orchestra lumber in to scene after scene like a stray elephant, for the sole purpose of telegraphing the most obvious emotional response. (...)it’s so overbearing and pushy, it sounds less like the period and more like an ‘80s miniseries set in the period.
http://www.twincities.com/movies/ci_250 ... ny-fail-atThe person with the most difficult job on "The Monuments Men" was the great composer Alexandre Desplat, who at some point must have sat down at a meeting with director George Clooney, and Clooney said something like, "So, I've made a movie that feels like 'Ocean's Eleven' about 85 percent of the time and like 'Schindler's List' the other 15. What I need you to do is create some magical music that will make it all fit together."
Desplat failed, as does the movie. But in fairness, both may have been tackling impossible projects.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014 ... n-curatorsA genial disappointment about the preciousness of art amid the destructive horrors of war, "The Monuments Men" is scored to a military march by composer Alexandre Desplat. You hear what he was going for: jaunty heroics. The throwback sound of it suggests the director, co-writer and star George Clooney sat down with Desplat, gave him a smile and said: "Gimme some of that Elmer Bernstein 'Great Escape' magic, Al."
It almost works. The whole film, with its unfashionable techniques (slow fades and dissolves by the dozen) and uber-relaxed, old-school vibe, almost works. Yet Clooney's attempt to honor unsung real-life heroes while recapturing the ensemble pleasures of some well-remembered Hollywood war pictures, notably "The Great Escape" and "The Guns of Navarone," comes off as a modestly accomplished forgery at best.
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/02/06 ... ain-event/It’s significant that Stokes’ speech floats on the wings of a musical accompaniment (by Alexandre Desplat) that sounds like an early try at The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The Monuments Men underlines the big moments with trumpets and the sad ones with violins; indeed, the whole movie is like that. Its heroes are resolute, but modest. The Germans are dastardly. People die, but none of them are American There’s not a hint of sex, although at one stage, the rather continental French Resistance fighter Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett, with a French accent that comes and goes) makes a pass at square-jawed American curator James Granger (Matt Damon, whose bad French is explained by the fact that he learned it in Quebec). The erotic moment doesn’t work out, but you can probably guess that it won’t from the fact that Granger is wearing a short-sleeve shirt and tie at the time.