SoundWorks Collection: The Sound and Music of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Soundworks Collection talks with Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Sound Re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick, and Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, and Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce.
Dragon Tattoo is a film you experience with your senses, like many of the best films this year – Tree of Life, Hugo, Drive, The Artist – music and sound is as much a part of it as the writing. This is especially true of the Reznor/Ross – Fincher collaboration. It isn’t really your run-of-the-mill composing that goes on when they work together – it is more integral, more organic. The music is really sewn into the flesh of the thing. I think that’s why it stands out from other film scores, to me anyway. When I listen to either The Social Network or the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s score I am really taken to another place. I don’t know how they do it but the hypnotic power of both scores is undeniable. They work well on their own as pieces of music but they also drive the films they score the way blood pumps the arteries. It’s an exceptional collaboration.
i certainly hope they win again. I may be a little biased because Reznor is my favorite musician but the score was still fantastic. Even a nomination would suffice.
I think we could be looking at a double for Reznor and Ross (the last time that happened was Gustavo Santaolalla in 2005 & 2006). It’s a way of honouring Dragon Tattoo in a year of tough contenders in the main categories and I think TSN score will still be fresh in a lot of voters’ minds. I have no evidence for this theory but there it is.