Since this is the first of the Music and Picture Review articles I'd like to take the opportunity to just outline shortly how i will be approaching this column.
I will purely be looking at the music in the picture how it was used by the music supervisor, look at the compositions by the composer at hand and also let you know who are the characters behind the work. So this week I look at the music in Duplicity.
Brian Ross (Crossing Over, The Killing Room, From Mexico with Love, Michael Clayton, License to Wed, Black Irish) was the music supervisor for this film. James Newton Howard (ER, The Dark Night, Liar Liar, The Interpreter) provided the film with original score. The two made a great team as each scene either scored or original pieces composed to complete a sequence or scene, you would see how well the music was utilized.
Of course praises goes to the music supervisor for being able to source the perfect piece for each scene that needed music. The opening scene is based in Dubai carries a live music feel that is none intrusive but yet puts a proper setting for the scene. This is the most crucial scene in this film at it sets up the characters' Ray Covel (Clive Owen) and Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts). If you don't pay attention what happens with this two in the opening scenes, you are probably not going to get what is goin on with their relationship.
Immediately after that sequence of scenes comes one that introduces two other characters that don't appear a lot in the film but their relationship is the basis of trade embarrassment that Ray and Claire suffer at the end. The characters are Tom Wilkinson (Howard Tully) and Paul Giamatti (Richard Garsik). This scene is a comic scene and I think the music saved it. The composition allowed the editor to execute what seemed unnecessary but yet effective to introduce the rivalry of Tom and Paul.
With the pieces that were composed for the film I love the way the usage of traditional scoring is used together with modern ideas. The mixes are also so beautiful and speak to the scenes in a special way i.e you feel like you are there. You can always tell which part of the world they've sent you to, by merely being attentive to the music.
The scenes that Ray and Claire revive their passion in Rome, just make you want to fall in love again or be locked away with your lover as soon as you leave the movie house.
The pieces that were employed here, make you want to experience the beauty of Rome yet the composer didn't try too hard to make you feel that you are in Rome. Of course the landscape must have made it much more attractive for one to want to be in Rome or in the Bahamas as in a later scene in the movie.
Brian must have had a hard time, together with the director, finalizing which pieces are totally appropriate to be used in the film because whatever was used needed to leave you still understanding or following the story line. In conclusion besides me loving the film I think the music was just of class and Brian Ross outdid himself on this film.
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Here are the rest of the music related credits in the movie:
Ryeland Allison .... composer: additional music
Pete Anthony .... conductor
Pete Anthony .... orchestrator
Jeff Atmajian .... orchestrator
Brad Dechter .... orchestrator
Braden Kimball .... assistant scoring mixer
Larry Mah .... digital score recordist
Alan Meyerson .... music scoring mixer
Satnam Ramgotra .... musician: percussion
Brian Ross .... music supervisor
Peter Rotter .... orchestra contractor
Steven L. Smith .... music preparation
Stuart Michael Thomas .... musical score arrangements
Matthew J. Ward .... additional score recordings
Credits References from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135487/fullcredits#cast
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