Sherlock Holmes Movie Music

January 13th, 2012 by admin

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There has been an interesting evolution of the musical scoring of movies in recent years as musical scores for some movies have become so epic that they’ve nearly become the modern equivalent of classical music due to their ability to stand completely on their own and separate from the movie itself. One great recent escapist film is that of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” and one interesting facet of the film is that it’s not only the villain (Professor Moriarty) that likes classical music but also the hero (Sherlock Holmes) who enjoys the music as well.

In the film the two adversaries both have a love of the same music by the same composer and this comes into play in the dialogue of the film between the two and even inserts itself cleverly into some of the props and devices used in the very visually appealing and graphically interesting period action adventure. A few of the classic artists that appear in the film include Schubert and Mozart which likely required little investment on the part of the producers since those works are in the public domain and they didn’t have to buy out music to obtain the tracks.

The soundtrack score itself to the film is also fairly fantastic and includes quite a lot of fun elements with Hans Zimmer putting everything from waltzes to fiddling in it and is a great score that includes many familiar thematic elements of the first film for an appearance in the second film but with greater flair.

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