Say what you will about “The Dark Knight,” maybe it’s hokey, unbelievable, amazing, better than “The Godfather,” etc. One thing’s for sure, the score by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard is pretty amazing and was actually influenced by the likes of Kraftwerk, the Damned and clanging industrial noises.
We said in an early preview of the discordant music, rather breathlessly, “the cacophonous score is totally submerged in pounding, texturally crunchy percussive ruptures and searing apocalyptic cellos stained with gloom and dread. Not to mention the random whisping eerie sounds emanating from speakers like apparitions….”there’s this excellent, buzzing, droning quality to it like an airplane about to crash that’s incredibly minimalist, atonal and way out-there for a mainstream film.”
In our review of “The Dark Knight” we wrote, “the score, btw, is impeccable and just further fuels the anxiety and the idea that the world here is about to burn.”
Since ‘TDK’ mania is still pretty much in full effect. Contest closed, thanks for playing. we have four two copies of the soundtrack to give away of the soundtrack CD (you can preview three songs below). To win all one needs to do is be the first to email us the answer to this question: What was the name of the Joker’s psychiatrist in Frank Miller’s graphic novel, “The Dark Knight Returns”? Bonne chance.