Welcome back and happy new year. We watched “The Dark Knight” over the holiday break, and man, we must admit it’s a gripping and thoroughly engrossing crime drama and as we’ve noted recently, yes, it’s Oscar hopes are still very much alive. However, the element that makes the film that extra special, is the amazing atonal music by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, and you really appreciate how it remarkably builds the tension and urgency to a fever pitch on a second viewing. It really makes the film for us and at the same time, it’s subtle because you’re so captivated, you don’t really realize how much the music is escalating the drama (as all strong movie music should do). This musical featurette called, “The Sound of Anarchy,” is from the “Dark Knight’ DVD which has obviously already sold about a trillion copies. It does a great job of explaining and underscoring the music’s integral role in the picture.
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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