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We track down Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and discuss:
- Cinematography, tracking shot;
- Story & Writing, rats, chase sequence;
- Music adding tone, driving the story;
- Performances;
- and other such stuff and things and stuff.
“Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing’s funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we’re political.“ – Fred Hampton
Notes & References:
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Reddit thread on r/filmmakers about PTA financing
“Presumed Innocent” Apple TV+ show with Chase Infiniti (YouTube link to trailer)
Fred Hampton (wiki)
This Week’s Recommendations:
“All About Lily Chou-Chou” (IMDB) / “Black Rabbit” (IMDB)
thank you for this fun episode with its contagious joy.
I share your opinion about the soundtrack/score, it lifts the whole movie as it did in There Will be Blood with
Arvo Pärt’s Fratres For Cello and Piano
https://youtu.be/5vO92REraUo?si=cZNLyrZCKmQjVqzu
Here I thought the main theme has some Clockwork Orange vibe in it and the Perfidia theme is a reminiscence to Morricone’s/Baez’s Here is to You, Nicola and Bart, another revolutionary piece
https://youtu.be/7oday_Fc-Gc?si=yERAXnmRVqiHr57y
Dude, thanks for that, just added Fratres to my score playlist. PTA is such an interesting director, his little quirks with these deep feelings about life and society really do stand apart, and his use of music across his oeuvre is probably something I should go back and pay closer attention to, it does inform and lift the whole experience. One Battle’s score never really let me feel the weight of the runtime or the amount of story we’re flying through, it all felt like one thing thanks to how the score was broken down in sections.
And that’s a helluva pull! I don’t think I’d heard that Baez song, and never even thought about Morricone producing songs with singers like that, wtf haha. So damn cool!
well, now you know the source of Bart Simpson’s name ^