The Walter G. Gerboth Music Library of Brooklyn College pays tribute to director Mike Nichols, who passed away earlier this week. His film The Graduate (1967) revolutionized the way that popular music was used on movie soundtracks and incorporated into the cinematic action. The film’s famous opening sequence, using Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence,” sets the tone for the story and it also establishes the importance of the song, which repeats throughout the film. The influence of both The Graduate’s use of music and its filmmaking style can be seen in many other works made in the nearly half a century since, including Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), which directly copies the airport-set style of the opening, and in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998) as well as in the way that Anderson uses pop music in the soundtracks of his other films. Nichols’ vision as to how to integrate the Simon & Garfunkel songs into the plot, including timing certain scenes to match the beats and overall lengths of the tracks, helped to make The Graduate the classic that it is. youtube/watch?v=gjtoi6Z4lAg
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:54:55 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015