If you’ve never listened to Trent Reznor and Atticus’ Ross unbelievable score to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo you are missing, what I’ve always thought was, the definitive score of a film. It’s certainly up there with the Last Temptation of Christ (meant to say, thanks KT), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, etc. Their score for The Social Network won the Oscar and is a score I listen to at least once a week. So it is fantastic news to hear that Reznor/Ross will be scoring Fincher’s upcoming Gone Girl. Fincher has already shown he is doing this movie his way (of course) and not trying to just bring the beloved book to the big screen with the morbid twist on John and Yoko. It’s already “out there” that the ending is going to be different. It seems to me that using Reznor/Ross adds a layer that wouldn’t ordinarily be there because Fincher allows the score to be as prominent as a character in the film. So this is hot stuff to hear on a Tuesday.
Best news of the day.
Mel, I very much enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So much so that it was my favorite movie of 2011. As much as I know I’m going to like Gone Girl, and it hopefully will be a Best Picture front-runner, I too wish that David Fincher had wanted to just keep making the other two The Girl… movies. But, as far as I know, The Girl Who Played with Fire is still planning on getting made.
Fincher is my favorite director. He has his entire team back for this movie. You know it’s going to be great. I can’t get over being nagged by the fact that Ben Affleck is his male lead. It kills me. The only way the casting could have been worse was if it was Keanu Reeves. It makes me want to drop the ground and scream, “Whyyyyyyyy!?!?!” like Nancy Kerrigan. I really hope Affleck doesn’t ruin it……but I can’t imagine that he won’t, he’s never been better than awful in anything.
I also can’t say I don’t wish this movie was The Girl Who Played with Fire instead of Gone Girl.
I’m such a Debbie Downer!!
The score of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is probably the greatest score of the last 10 years.
Heck, I remember the days when these teen soap opera shows were making musical artists famous like Dawson’s Creek and The O.C.
The O.C. especially had several soundtracks available in the stores. I remember especially the influence that the Seth Cohen character had on making Death Cab for Cutie popular.
I guess the only difference is that Nine Inch Nails were already popular.
I always pay attention to the music and it’s connection to television and films. Just think of all these bands or songs that became popular from being in a great movie or television show. Even if they don’t appear in the film, they still appear in the advertisement. Like Kane mentioning Arcade Fire, made me think of this for Where the Wild Things Are, which is also a Spike Jonze film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdNdjF-htY
Sasha, your love for Reznor/Ross music seems up there with my love for anything by Arcade Fire. Imagine my ecstasy when watching Her for the 1st time. But I’ve always felt their score for The Social Network is one of the top 10 most pivotal film scores at least in the last 25 years, and that’s not to say it’s in the top 10 best. But in terms of how perfect a particular score is for a particular movie, I can’t imagine The Social Network having better music. I am thoroughly looking forward to Gone Girl.
Cool, so he’s got his A-team from his last couple of films, Reznor/Ross’ score, Cronenworth’s cinematography, and Wall/Baxter on editing. That’s inspiring, along with the news he(and the screenwriter/original author) are making big changes from the book. Looking forward to this.
I hate to just sound like a fanboy, but I love both David Fincher movies and Nine Inch Nails music. I think the two together is genious. David Fincher has always had an air of darkness to his films, and Nine Inch Nails is sort of the definitive dark music band of the last 20 years. Just listen to NIN’s 1994 song Hurt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmKZKR7oyc
I’ve been listening to NIN/Trent Reznor since ’89, this is a pretty awesome collaboration with Fincher again.