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Who are you and what have you done with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross???
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Deepened them sideways.
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Okay you had my attention, now you have my curiosity.
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The previous work I've heard by Reznor & Ross hasn't been my my cup of tea, but I'm intrigued by this. Listening to the music on the website, it sounds like David Fincher asked them to compose the music they believe they would've composed had they been alive & making music in the 1940s. I don't know if that's actually what Fincher's direction was, but that's what it sounds like.
I read an interview with Reznor a month or two ago, promoting Watchmen, and he said that was exactly what they were told. 
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One observation is that IMO it sounds a lot more like the kind of score a P.T. Anderson movie would have. I don't think any Fincher score has sounded even vaguely "retro" before - even "Zodiac" sounded pretty modern to me, despite being by David Shire (it was also a very sparse score, and very much in the background - the music everybody remembers from that film are the period songs).
This film is pretty clearly Fincher's THE GOOD GERMAN, where he's not just making a period film, but making a film that looks like it was entirely created in that period. Soderbergh and Fincher are good friends, and TGG gave us Soderbergh's only conventional melodic orchestral score so far, and it was gorgeous.
Soderbergh actively avoided them up to that point. I remember an interview where he described seeing The Rocketeer and vowing to the friend he was with that no film he ever made would have a score like that.
I was grateful to see Soderbergh change his tune when it was appropriate, and I'm excited to see what Reznor and Ross have done here, it sounds a lot like The Good German, in the style of the 40s without being a pastiche.
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Jeepers! Real music from R&R! Whodathunkit?
I would!
I was already a big fan of their previous, more ambient-oriented work, but I just knew they had the musicaliity in them to branch out into new territory.
Agreed. Dragon Tattoo and Patriots Day are two of my favorite scores of the last decade, and I can hear hints of them in this. They're far more lyrical than people give them credit for.
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From Conrad Pope’s FB page :
Yes. I had a hand in orchestrating the "orchestral bits"of the score. Dan Higgins did the honors with the "jazz"parts the score[\i]
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Can't wait for the film and score (thanks to Conrad Pope's magic)
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The best work from Reznor and Ross, by far
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