Questions tagged [soundtrack]
For questions related to sound and music recorded for a motion picture or television show.
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Is the loudness of a movie in the theater set by the theater or by the publisher/studio?
How are the sound levels of a movie set? Does the theater decide how loud they want movies to be, or is there an automatic system that allows the publisher/distributor/producer/studio to set the sound ...
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Why did Ennio Morricone write the soundtrack of "The Thing" (1982) instead of John Carpenter?
There is something I have always found odd about the soundtrack of John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing". It has a very atmospheric and fitting, subtle synthesizer soundtrack, which is indeed ...
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Why aren't the songs from a TV show credited in the end credits?
Movies (feature films, if you prefer) always list the songs they feature at the end of the credits.
Here's an example from Star Trek Into Darkness:
But TV shows seem to answer to different rules. I ...
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Why are most sounds dubbed in afterwards for movies, instead of being recorded live?
I've heard that sounds tend to be dubbed in afterwards, rather than being recorded live. Everything from walking to opening and shutting doors. What is the reason for doing this?
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Did the Pitch Perfect cast do their own singing?
I was quite baffled after watching Pitch Perfect because the songs were really enticing. Moreover, I felt that the songs in the movie were much better than the original songs.
Did the cast members do ...
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Why wasn't Van Halen's music in Back to the Future?
Why did the band Van Halen deny the request to use their music in Back to the Future while Edward Van Halen secretly recorded music for the movie?
From USA Today (emphasis mine):
...the cassette he ...
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Why is the Salieri-Mozart relationship projected falsely in the movie Amadeus?
Anselm Hüttenbrenner was a composer who studied with Salieri and it has been noted in Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera and quoting him
Of Mozart, he always spoke with the most extraordinary respect....
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What does "a nickel on the dime" mean?
In The Greatest Showman there's a song set in a bar where PT and Philip are negotiating whether or not Philip will join the show, and there is a lyric I don't understand.
First they're singing about ...
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What is the reason behind this musical reference to Pinocchio in the Close Encounters main theme?
Something that has always struck me when watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was this apparent reference in John Williams' main theme (starting at 4:28) to Leigh Harline and Ned Washington's ...
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Why the discrepancy between the sound levels of dialogue and music in older movies?
I've been watching a lot of older films lately (older, in this instance reads "circa '80s and '70s" and mainly in the Sci-Fi and action genres), and have been asking myself the same thing as ...
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What is the relationship between the theme songs in Sherlock Holmes (2009 movie) and Sherlock (BBC series)?
I've just started binge-watching the BBC series Sherlock. The first episode aired 7 months after the release of the movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr. The theme songs for the movie and ...
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What is the significance of Peter and the Wolf in Blade Runner 2049?
In Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Niander Wallace has built a gigantic technology coorporation Wallace which has created among other things, a holographic companionship program seen through the character of ...
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Which comes first in song-and-dance movies: The soundtrack or the video?
In big-budget movies like the Pitch Perfect trilogy that are full of cast singing and dancing to sound-studio tracks, including close-ups with no obvious "lip-synching" breaks:
When the actors are ...
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What is the difference between a movie's soundtrack, and its score?
The title says it all: What is the difference between a movie's soundtrack, and its score?
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What was the first occurrence of background music turning out to be diegetic music for comedic purposes?
There are a lot of music which have this joke:
The actor moves through a scene with background music playing, when the actor acknowledges the musicians in the scene for comical effect.
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