I discovered so much music through the movies, so represented in these 50 tracks are songs & score moments that have inspired and excited me over the years. How I started was by making “goofies” or amateur films of my school friends, which were all comedies up until around the period of Dead Right. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilization of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. The World [Script] Lyrics. In his other films, Tarantino seems to have overall themes based around genres, but in Reservoir Dogs, it’s very specific. When I started, on almost any short film I used to slap on bits from the Star Wars score, particularly “Ben’s Death” and “TIE Fighter Attack.” That’s the best cue. The set is slated for release on March 26th. By Evan Minske r What Edgar Wright has done with this soundtrack is show off his wonderfully diverse taste in music, without picking all of the most obvious tracks. Fred gave me a couple of hour-long mixes he’d done and talked in terms of building tempo, using a down song and then bringing the mix back up. I have no idea whether they even made albums that rotated at 16 [revolutions per minute] but as you might imagine, me and my brother used to try playing things at that speed. The World, you’ll be aware that Edgar Wright knows how to sling a fantastic soundtrack together. Sometimes my parents would buy me and my brother 7" singles. Edgar Wright: why the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack matters as much as the movie Taking inspiration from Beck and The Legend of Zelda, the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack raises the … That’s a beautiful thing and I’ve had several instances of that. One of the tracks, and it’s on the Shaun of the Dead soundtrack album as well, is called “Fizzy Legs.” It’s a very silly title for quite a dark song, but it was a song that I felt had the right vibe for Shaun of the Dead. Edgar Wright uses creative transitions to keep the energy of his movies … Edgar Wright: The Diegetic Soundtrack of My Life The British writer and director on his formative musical experiences and the magical marriage of music and movies Many directors have stylistic trademarks that mark out their movies. Also, all of the songs are on theme. When I first listened to the White Album around that age I would often think, “What is this all about?” I loved it, but I didn’t understand what it was about and some of it was scary to me. Great film by Edgar Wright soundtrack is the best and the action is the best too Recommend to anyone who loves action films and loves music Love how they played around with baby and his ark to realise crime isn’t that good. The World, you’ll be aware that Edgar Wright knows how to sling a fantastic soundtrack together. I was living in London by that point. Weirdly, Harold Budd went there. I think that starts to create a spell and a tone, which kind of carries through the entire movie. Baby Driver presents some music from loved artists that people may not know, so it is educational to the casual music fan. The single came out before I was born, but I can vividly remember Mud playing “Tiger Feet” on Top of the Pops, possibly a Christmas special. Most of the music I discovered was through watching Top of the Pops and listening to Radio 1. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Has being a filmmaker propelled you to continue to dig? Edgar Wright: Sort of? I definitely remember all these things fondly. I think about this mostly in terms of movies that use existing source music. We are told during the course of Baby Driverthat the reason behind Baby’s constant soundtrack for his life is that he suffers from tinnitus following the car accident that killed his parents. I have more fondness for them now, because they make me feel nostalgic. That was an hour long and every few weeks they would run down the Indie Top 10 or 20 as well as the pop charts. I started to do this thing where instead of buying contemporary music, I’d listen to that on the radio and use my money to start raiding the discographies of artists who were a little before my time. That’s one of the songs that I think of when I think of Spaced. I wasn’t crazy about Oasis, but I used to love Pulp, Suede and Supergrass as well as Blur. It was quite difficult initially to figure out exactly what it was. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be, but not Revolver. All of the songs in American Graffiti are diegetic until the end credits when the Beach Boys’ “All Summer Long” kicks in. 5:52. June 30, 2017 4:55 pm. Edgar Wright is a director, screenwriter, producer and actor hailing from Poole in Dorset, England, known for his fast-paced editing style, wry sense of humor and parodying cinematic tropes. I did. This collection of songs represents an amazing span of artists. I think in a certain sense we were imposing our own musical tastes on the show, but then it felt like the kind of thing those guys would be listening to. Edgar Wright does this throughout every single one of the film’s 113 minutes. In fact, when I give advice to young filmmakers, one thing I say is, “Don’t temp your movie with music that you cannot afford.”. Were you going to those kinds of clubs and parties? When I heard that, it was like, “Oh, this is Spaced happy music.” It was great, because I was going on an adventure that you think the characters may have also done. That means there’s a reason for songs from that period to be used. I played it to Simon and then he also fell in love with it. Anyone can slap music in a film, especially with the right budget and soundtrack supervisor. My brother would be in the bedroom next to mine, so I would hear AC/DC and Aerosmith through the wall. There’s another one that’s often used, from James Horner’s score to Aliens. I particularly like the amazing things by Keith Mansfield. Facebook Twitter. “Loaded” by Primal Scream. I suppose we could have looked for a cover version of that, but you still have to pay the publishing royalties. I did later when I was a teenager, because his show was on at 10 PM, so it wasn’t really something I was aware of until I was older. When it came to making films, did you ever think about bending the format in the same kind of way? It basically inspired the whole movie in a way. Copyright © 2021 Penske Business Media, LLC. I think that was by Goblin or at least one of the members, such as Claudio Simonetti. It’s incredible. The film is an action musical. Were you an early music aficionado or was it something that came later through your interest in filmmaking? The director partnered with Spotify to create a playlist of his 50 favorite tracks and it’s currently streaming for free. It becomes clear in this respect that Baby’s tinnitus is not just a literal remnant of the accident … I probably saw that film when I was very young and in some cases, I link the music solely with the movie. This movie is rated on a 4-star scale. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! You mentioned that you and your brother used to manipulate sound by playing records at the wrong speed. Edgar Wright. Now ABKCO, with Edgar Wright and Nigel Godrich’s oversight, has curated an expanded, four LP picture disc Seven Evil Exes Edition offering of the soundtrack and score, including more performances by Sex Bob-Omb and demos from Beck, as well as fan-favorite “Black Sheep” by Metric and sung by actress Brie Larson. Somewhere there’s a copy of Shaun of the Dead with the score from The Thing, which ironically is Ennio Morricone aping John Carpenter. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Edgar Wright’s eclectic ... To be honest, I could fill this whole list with songs from The World’s End, which boasts a soundtrack that is perfect for a Brit Pop or Madchester-themed party, with cuts from artists like Blur, Pulp, James, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, and of course, The Stone Roses. It felt like what those characters might have been listening to. Then he said something that I thought was funny, about having a “cigarette song” at the end. Edgar Wright has mostly dabbled in satirical films over his career, and while Baby Driver has plenty of funny moments, it’s mostly a straight-up action-thriller with the most perfectly-curated soundtrack ever put in a film. You hear them on the radio in the background, in the diner, at the prom, even in the cars. From the opening seconds, the movie is suffused with songs, playing key roles in both the narrative and the extra-diagetical realm of the soundtrack. All of those songs mean a lot to me now. Michael Cera knew how to play guitar, but the others did not. You then start thinking of it in that way, following all those unwritten rules of mixtapes – not repeating too many artists and having a diverse range of music, for example. Fact: Marshall High, the school from Grease, is right around the corner from where we’re recording this interview. What’s the “cigarette song” in _Baby Driver? 0:30. The track is called “The Staunton Lick.”. As both of my parents worked, there were times when we were left alone in the house, so I pretty much got to know all of those records inside out. Like the rest of his movies, that soundtrack was great. I went through a phase of listening to everything by David Bowie, everything by Queen, everything by Roxy Music, and so on. So, Edgar Wright created an intensive music school and brought in Chris Murphy to help show them the ropes enough that they’d be believable in the movie. Wright wrote and directed the film as a kind of “movie mixtape,” with the featured music becoming an integral part of the way the characters interact. Edgar Wright’s "Bad Driver" redefines “incidental” music as the movie's director lets some 30-plus songs play out at close to full length. There are so many great sequences in that one: the sequence with the dead bodies where he uses “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos and also the use of Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love.” Another sequence I particularly like is the whole helicopter section, which I think has two songs in it: George Harrison’s “What Is Life?” and more famously “Jump Into The Fire” by Harry Nilsson. Academy Members Are Tuned Out: This Year’s Oscar Voters Have Some Work to Do, Oscar Noms for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Reflect Years of Hollywood Diversity Efforts, In Medias Residue, or: Just Start Your TV Pilot at the Beginning — TV Podcast, What Does a Childhood Memory Look and Sound Like? Nilsson’s “Jump Into The Fire” is such a great, unusual choice for that movie. Edgar Wright has directed music videos for the likes of The Bluetones and Mint Royale in the past. I saw Suede when I was at art college and then saw Supergrass and Blur when I moved to London. But British writer/director Edgar Wright just keeps getting better, as evidenced by his latest action flick “Baby Driver,” which is one of the most fun and finely-crafted movies of the year. I was quite taken with “Out Of Space” in particular. When I started work on Baby Driver, I wanted to do a whole film like that scene, where music is playing in every single scene, but also when we’re shooting it, so the actors can hear it. If your ears have been anywhere near Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz or Scott Pilgrim Vs. Is that sense of “music memory” and nostalgic spark something that makes its way into the films you’re working on? If you want to use any of it, please do.” So in the second season of Spaced, we used lots of that album. The irony with Shaun of the Dead is that when Dan Mudford and Pete Woodhead from the Sons of Silence did the score, they used the temporary tracks as inspiration. There was originally no music written into the scripts, but there were certain songs that had a vibe. It was in the film. There’ve been scenes in my films that have done that, like the scene in Shaun of the Dead with Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”. I don’t think, consciously, when I was making films, that I would be thinking about messing around with the form in the way that I did in playing with the record speeds. I think it’s called “Bishop’s Countdown.” In every single trailer post-1986 through to the middle of the ’90s, it seemed like you’d always hear that cue. Edgar Wright Explains How He Crafted the Perfect Soundtrack for Baby Driver John Spencer Blues Explosion - "Bellbottoms". Baby Driver: slick flick, dazzling car chase, killer soundtrack Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright has made his best film in more than a decade Again, it’s one of those songs that when you hear it, you think of Goodfellas. It’s one of those cues. For what it’s worth, I’m dying to see Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Two soundtracks were released for the motion picture Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: an original soundtrack and an original score.Music producer Nigel Godrich, film director Edgar Wright, and film producer Marc Platt executive produced both soundtracks, with Godrich also composing the original score. So I thought, “What if we slowed down this drum break?” If we slowed the music down by half, then the picture had to be slowed down by the same speed. House Music All Night LongJARV IS..., Jarvis Cocker • Beyond the Pale. That was mind-blowing to me, because I grew up in a small town in the countryside where there were no hip clubs at all. Whether it’s Queen in “Shaun of the Dead” or all the music in “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” the writer-director is always down to showcase a song where he sees fit. One of the great things about being a music aficionado who also makes movies is that you can use songs to almost say thank you to the artists who have inspired you. The first one I ever had was a disco record – “Strut Your Funky Stuff” by Frantique. Knowing Wright is such a master of the movie soundtrack should make his official list of 50 favorite movie soundtrack moments all the more important. Simon [Pegg] had mentioned a Fatboy Slim track called “The Weekend Starts Here.” When I heard it I thought, “Oh, that’s definitely the right vibe for the show.”. Now ABKCO, with Edgar Wright and Nigel Godrich’s oversight, has curated an expanded, four LP picture disc Seven Evil Exes Edition offering of the soundtrack/score, including more performances by Sex Bob- Omb and demos from Beck, as well as fan-favorite “Black Sheep” by Metric and sung by actress Brie Larson. D orset-born director Edgar Wright, ... My initial idea of a car-chase film powered by music goes right back to my flat in Wood Green, when I was 21 and first living in London. A couple of times I got into a position where TV shows in the UK would want to show them late at night, but that was a problem because you’ve got all this unlicensed music. Your parents record box seems to be something that got you going. They were also influenced by lounge-core. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with Da Another early seven was “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees. It’s a brilliant choice and it works so beautifully. People always ask us about doing a third series and one of the reasons that it would be very difficult is because our lives are so different to what those characters may have become. Edgar Wright walks Vulture through his best musical moments, from ‘Spaced,’ to ‘Baby Driver.’ The Verdict: When Wright finally puts himself in front of the camera to talk about his love for Sparks, the text below reads “Edgar Wright, Fanboy.”It’s a redundant sentiment, considering the tenor of the doc itself — it’s a glowing, ebullient profile of a band its creator loves, flops and all, and you can see that infectious glee pour through the screen. We used a lot of their tracks in the second season. We definitely had Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. There was a whole series of novelty rave songs, like “Sesame’s Treet” by Smart E’s, which was a hi-NRG rave version of the Sesame Street theme song. The Sons of Silence had a song out around the time I was editing space called “Bobby Dazzler.” When I was editing Spaced, I was essentially the music supervisor as well. That was all pre-Britpop, though, around the time of Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. Wright detailed the source of each song on his Twitter page, and his favorite songs come from the likes of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Dirty Harry,” Superfly,” and “The Big Lebowski.”, Here’s all 50 movies featured on the playlist: (1 of 2) pic.twitter.com/bTXCHDxDbO, — edgarwright (@edgarwright) February 17, 2018, Here’s all 50 movies featured on the playlist: (2 of 2) pic.twitter.com/vjWKR594q7. In 1995, Wright was 21, living in London on welfare, with no aim and no idea how he was going to achieve his dream of becoming a Hollywood director. That premise is at the heart of his acclaimed 2017 thriller, Baby Driver. Oh, yeah. 135. I found all these when I was working in TV, before doing Spaced. This might be heresy to say, but having heard Revolver, it’s not even in my top three Beatles albums. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. I think I found most of the soundtrack of Spaced through that, as well as going to things I knew already like Sons of Silence. Later I found this quite curious, because Revolver is often voted the best album of all time. Edgar Wright’s films are often likened to musicals, with his precise use of editing and shot choices giving us some of the most stylish comedy films of the century. It was one I thought about a lot, because so many people use slow motion and slap a pop song over the top. I wasn’t really into that so much. I asked my parents, “Why did you not buy that, because you have the rest of the albums from Rubber Soul onwards?” They said they’d never got ’round to buying it, so I told them people say it’s the best one. I think so, yes. I think that’s something that a lot of people learn. Now play it at 16.” Or, “Play these 45s at 78.” It was very silly. Now, of course, I love it and we used it in The World’s End. The upcoming heist flick centers on a getaway driver with tinnitus who uses music to drown out the noise, and times his escapes to the songs that he listens to. It stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Bernthal. I got a bunch of actors to come in, only one of whom, Jon Hamm, is in the finished movie. I arrived at the height of Britpop. It was a weird player that I’m assuming they didn’t make too many of, because the speed settings were 78, 45, 33 and 16. There was this little pub called the Laurel Tree that did a club called Blow Up, which is still going now. Baby, the lead character in Baby Driver, has stashes of iPods. Spotify asked me to come up with a playlist of my favourite soundtrack moments in film which was a hell of an ask. That’s a great record. It’s interesting, I think, that when you start getting into doing a soundtrack for a show or film, it quickly starts becoming like a mixtape. It was crazy – it felt like the track was playing with my mind. It’s actually pretty good and definitely very danceable. Because it’s the TIE fight attack and it gets extremely exciting. Another album in my parents’ record box was Bridge Over Troubled Water. Full Soundtrack: All 44 Songs In Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ Rodrigo Perez. Even for a director whose previous films have all made thorough use of pop music, Edgar Wright takes it much further in his new movie Baby Driver. I didn’t really like the music, though I do remember when I was in art college they used to play the Prodigy every week. He said, “We’ve got a whole second album that’s unreleased. Edgar Wright has a formidable reputation for mashing up film genres in restlessly entertaining fashion. When I was a teenager, I was inspired by the use of music in Goodfellas. Anyone who saw “Baby Driver” knows that Edgar Wright can assemble one hell of a movie soundtrack. They had one Rolling Stones album – the first one that is actually now worth quite a lot of money. And so, it’s no surprise that Wright also is one of the few filmmakers to release an annual Best Songs list. They gifted me that along with the rest of their records when they got rid of their record player. 1. Yeah. How ‘Minari’ Found the Answer, The Visceral Cinema of ‘Sound of Metal’ Was Rooted in an Immersive Set, Oscar Cinematography Survey: Here Are the Cameras and Lenses Used to Shoot 32 Awards Contenders, 40 Indie Horror Movies Now Streaming, from ‘The Witch’ to ‘Midsommar’, The 7 Best Movies New to Netflix in April 2021, Regé-Jean Page Opens Up on Exiting ‘Bridgerton’ Ahead of Season 2: ‘It’s a One-Season Arc’, ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Director Adam Wingard: ‘I Can’t Wait to Use the Potential That This Might Buy Me’. The rest of it wasn’t really my thing, so some of that rave stuff passed me by a little bit. So we did exactly that. Another movie that was really sort of very influential in terms of the use of the music was George Lucas’s American Graffiti, because the idea of a diegetic soundtrack really influenced my latest film, Baby Driver. It was the only Simon & Garfunkel album they had. For example, have you looked into library music and thought, “I could place these nuggets somewhere to turn people on to it?”. These were normally film scores. I really loved doing that and I’d love to do it more. These include the so-called Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (2004’s zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead, 2007’s small-town crime caper Hot Fuzz and 2013 sci-fi comedy The World’s End) and 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! There were lots of bands that I discovered by digging through the racks in Virgin Megastore, like Fantastic Plastic Machine. By Larry Bartleet. With the soundtrack to Spaced, I think the music used often matches the characters. I think there were a number of movies that married music and film together and were therefore really influential to me. The full soundtrack list for Baby Driver has been released, setting up the next big music-driven action movie that drives the plot with carefully chosen music. 3:30. There used to be a Virgin Megastore around the corner from our edit suite, and during the editing of Spaced I must have bought about 200 CDs. I’m interested in the idea of certain music being ingrained in your memory. Baby Driver 2017 Soundtrack is an album from a crime action film written and directed by Edgar Wright. My friends were all ravers, though, taking ecstasy and stuff. The plot follows Baby, a young getaway driver and music lover who must work for a kingpin. Yes, Wright always keeps us guessing, defying anyone to put him in a genre box. One of the great things about being a music aficionado who makes movies is that you can use songs to say thank you to the artists who have inspired you. All of the songs have “moon” in the title, which is not only a superbly simple idea, but also brilliantly effective. I remember on the end credits I used something from the score to Dario Argento’s Phenomena, because it had a particularly epic end cue. The opening music you hear in Shaun of the Dead is from Dawn of the Dead, but it’s not Goblin. News. People often ask, “What’s the greatest end credits?” My answer is always An American Werewolf in London, because when the film cuts to black and the Marcels doo-wop cover of “Blue Moon” kicks in, it’s just heaven. In Baby Driver, Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a getaway driver who drowns out his tinnitus by always listening to music. So he thinks, “Oh, I could do this myself.” He got the synthesizer out and knocked out a classic soundtrack like Halloween. I started seeing a lot of artists after that, particularly at a theater that no longer exists called the Astoria. It would seem like a fallacy to try and get back in the heads of those guys. Edgar Wright. 23rd November 2017. I would say that Baby Driver is sort of a distillation of the nostalgic feelings I have for music. It was definitely before I got into filmmaking. There’s a lot of bands from that time that I got into just as they were breaking up, such as the Pixies. Zack Sharf There was another TV show on in the late ’80s that was important: The Chart Show. It’s like, “This is what they’re listening to during the time period of the movie.” The film itself is sort of recalling these tough guy films from the ’70s and the idea that the characters are harking back to that. It was around that time that I first started going to gigs. I wouldn’t call Dead Right a proper film. When I was a ten year old listening to “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright,” I had no idea who he was, but I loved the song and the lyrics. Three different songs have the word "baby" in them. Edgar Howard Wright is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. Sons of Silence were a late ’90s band that came in the wake of big beat, like Fatboy Slim, Bentley Rhythm Ace and those kinds of acts. The World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. Definitely. Behind the Music of Baby Driver, With Director Edgar Wright An action film as jam-packed with musical easter eggs as car chases deserves a dissection from its maker. from The World’s End (2013) In The World’s End, the final installment of … I’d hear lots of disco and things like “You’re The One That I Want” by John Travolta and Oliva Newton-John. I think what started me off on the road to being a music geek was having a record player in our house. Even so, I was still into a lot of older acts at that time and so I only started catching up with new music as I reached my late teens. From the mixtape soundtrack to the focus on criminals being charming and monstrous, ... Edgar Wright isn’t really an imitator, but if Baby Driver was his first attempt to be one, he could outdo the original in time. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers. Since first rising to prominence via the late ’90s sitcom Spaced – a cult series he worked on with regular collaborators Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes – Wright has written and directed a string of hit movies notable for their use of both pop music and soundtrack-style instrumental music. It was a smart thing to do in terms of using something spare, but also because the John Carpenter scores are cheap. Edgar Wright noted, “Music is such an integral part of the Scott Pilgrim books that myself and Nigel have been working on the soundtrack for nearly two years. Edgar Wright told us why he chose the songs for the incredible Baby Driver soundtrack. Baby Driver director, king of the Cornetto trilogy. This is four years before I started filming. It was basically a movie-length mix. By that point I was aware that it would not be a good idea to put John Williams on my film. It was a phrase I’d never heard before, but it’s basically a comedown song at the end of the set. If you do a short film or amateur first feature and you temp it with John Williams or Ennio Morricone, be aware that you may never get that great effect ever again and you’ll be disappointed. Jon Spencer even has a cameo appearance as a prison guard. Sometimes, there are cues that you hear on soundtrack albums and if you’re doing an amateur short, you think, “Oh, I know what to put on this.”. Edgar Wright Match Cuts in Scott Pilgrim: https://youtu.be/N0Jy9a-C0c4Edgar Wright is known for his sequential quick cuts. By Larry Bartleet. Michael Nordine . The first song I remember hearing. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilization of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. It is in this scene that Baby’s tinnitus begins and it never lets up after that moment. I definitely like that song, and I was trying to talk about music within the script a lot, so I was trying to think of a song with a girl's name. Look no further than “Baby Driver’s” opening car chase, which is perfectly synched to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms.”. Probably the only contemporary artists I used to actually keep up with at that time were Prince and R.E.M. I mean, I think of that as a piece of music linked to that film, making it a great example of a composition that will forever be associated with the movie. Get all the lyrics to songs on Scott Pilgrim vs. 1 EXT. You’d hear modern music from the ’60s, mod-revival music from the ’70s and ’80s, Britpop stuff and the occasional TV theme. After we used “Bobby Dazzler” in the show, I met one of the guys from the band socially. Edgar Wright didn’t go out of his way to cast musicians as the principal band for Sex Bob-Omb on screen. At that time, was music a social thing for you? I’m very fond of it, because it was literally the first 7" I ever had. I guess it’s Sky Ferreira’s cover of “Easy.” It’s like, “It’s all over… Or is it?” Baby Driver was the culmination of something I’ve been working on for a long time in terms of making the music motivate the movie rather than the other way around. I guess this is because the others are so ingrained on my brain. Think of Edgar Wright’s films and TV shows, and you’ll instantly recall not only his willingness to poke fun at established movie tropes, but also the way he uses music to shape or enhance the action. 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