Modern Day/Current Music for Movies Set in a Different Era (Great Gatsby-R)

[JectWon]

So, the score for The Great Gatsby will include music from Andre 3000, Jay-Z, Beyonce...etc.



Considering the fact that this is a retelling of an immortal book, I think its a pretty ballsy move...and I doubt I'll enjoy it.

When I watch movies set in a certain time, I like to get immersed as much as possible in that time...and I expect the music to be a part of that. Introducing completely foreign music that clearly didn't exist made from instruments that didn't exist kinda crushes that for me.

Anyone feel otherwise and/or have an example of a movie that pulls this off, in their opinion?

 

[batmon]

Jay-Z on the Jackie Robinson Bio......Wack.





I never liked that idea. The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.





Ive seen it work but a lotta times its just some way to highlight stars and attract audiences.

 

[Duderonomy]

I often talk about how they do this in Tin Men. It's set in '63, and the sound track is The Fine Young Cannibals from Birmingham, England. Apparently they composed the music for the film, and while it does sound retro for 1989, on the face of it this shouldn't work as well as it does. Great film too. Love Dreyfuss & Devito.

 

[JectWon]

batmon said:Jay-Z on the Jackie Robinson Bio......Wack.




Yeah, what the fuck is that...It's just my opinion and I'm a sensitive mug but I almost find it offensive to the material...In Jackie's case, I would never imagine taking that epic story off the rails with some current hip soundtrack....it stinks of "this will be another way to make even more money off this film".

 

[batmon]

JectWon said:batmon said:Jay-Z on the Jackie Robinson Bio......Wack.




Yeah, what the fuck is that...It's just my opinion and I'm a sensitive mug but I almost find it offensive to the material...In Jackie's case, I would never imagine taking that epic story off the rails with some current hip soundtrack....it stinks of "this will be another way to make even more money off this film".




Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

[DB_Cooper]

batmon said:JectWon said:batmon said:Jay-Z on the Jackie Robinson Bio......Wack.




Yeah, what the fuck is that...It's just my opinion and I'm a sensitive mug but I almost find it offensive to the material...In Jackie's case, I would never imagine taking that epic story off the rails with some current hip soundtrack....it stinks of "this will be another way to make even more money off this film".




Brooklyn Dodgers.




Old white guys think rap didn't really cross over until they started seeing that Jay Z character on the cover of Forbes, so clearly Jay Z is the Jackie Robinson of rap.

 

[DocMcCoy]

batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.

 

[rootlesscosmo]

QT's use of Rick Ross and Tupac in Django was beyond corny.

 

[DB_Cooper]

rootlesscosmo said:QT's use of Rick Ross and Tupac in Django was beyond corny.




Tupac was the "Django Unchained" of rap.

 

[fountain16]

DocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.

pretty sure the title music for BWE is an instrumental version of a Brian Jonestown Massacre song...and it sounds nothing like U2.

 

[neil_something]

fountain16 saidocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.

pretty sure the title music for BWE is an instrumental version of a Brian Jonestown Massacre song...and it sounds nothing like U2.




brian jonestown massacre - straight up and down





i never got around to watching the show, so just watched the opening credits on youtube... sounds more like a stoned version of "i'm waiting for my man" than U2 (that said, i don't have any U2 records so they may well have a whole velvet underground sounding past that i'm not aware of).

 

[batmon]

fountain16 saidocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.

pretty sure the title music for BWE is an instrumental version of a Brian Jonestown Massacre song...and it sounds nothing like U2.

 

[Hotsauce84]

DocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.




Wow, that is bad. Why not just FWD through it? That's what my B'walk crew does.

 

[onetet]

Never fully get this line of complaint. Yes, they didn't have rap in 1860... they also didn't have recorded music of any kind, not to mention movie cameras.





If the characters are depicted listening to post-period music in a period piece, then we have a question of whether the anachronism is intentional or accidental--and, if intentional, whether it serves the film or detracts from the film. But if only *we* the viewers are hearing non-period music, it's all part of the constructed experience that is moviegoing, with the filmmakers using any variety of technologies and techniques at their disposal toward making us see, hear, and feel new things. Perhaps we're too boxed in by what music we expect to encounter in genre films and, particularly, period pieces.

 

[DocMcCoy]

fountain16 saidocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.

pretty sure the title music for BWE is an instrumental version of a Brian Jonestown Massacre song...and it sounds nothing like U2.




Well, I'll defer to your greater familiarity here. I had no idea who it was, but it sounded as 80s-indie-rock generic as it did anachronistic, hence the qualifier.

 

[DocMcCoy]

Herm saidocMcCoy said:batmon said: The Score can be modern but the soundtrack, id prefer to be time specific. It really depends.




This is going to sound incredibly petty, but I was so irritated by that shitty, sub-sub-U2 title music for Boardwalk Empire that I bailed halfway through the first season and never went back.




Wow, that is bad. Why not just FWD through it? That's what my B'walk crew does.




I know, it's inexcusable, isn't it? Especially since, in just about every other respect, it's the kind of thing that's right up my street. That music really jarred with me, though - when you're already thinking there's something wrong with a show almost before it's started, it's not an encouraging sign. People keep telling me I should give it another go, and if I do, I'll follow your advice.





I genuinely thought it was a bit of bought-in production music, perhaps from an album called "Atmospheric Modern Rock Vol. II" or something.

 

[skel]

DocMcCoy said:


I genuinely thought it was a bit of bought-in production music, perhaps from an album called "Atmospheric Modern Rock Vol. II" or something.




The one Beatnick made some nice tracks out of this album a couple of years back.


Junior knows the deal.

 

[herbacios tweed]

soundtrack worked well on this imo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/soundtrack

 

[JectWon]

herbacios tweed said:soundtrack worked well on this imo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/soundtrack




This whole movie drove me nuts...It was actually one of the first things that came to mind when I heard who was going to be on the Great Gatsby I got the feeling that it was over my head and I didn't care enough to figure it out.

 

[JectWon]

onetet said:Never fully get this line of complaint. Yes, they didn't have rap in 1860... they also didn't have recorded music of any kind, not to mention movie cameras.







Not sure if you are talking about a different story...but The Great Gatsby takes place in 1922 and there was plenty of great recorded music to pull from.





I guess I just don't understand why the folks who made the movie feel they need to take such bold artistic liberties with a story that doesn't need any tweaking. Sure, there is no soundtrack to the book to follow.





It's a stubborn position for me to take, but I really enjoy when a movie adaptation sticks with the culture that was available during the time of the story.