She was a teenager, and a 20-something. Coppla wanted her to transcend to modern times and for women who were her age to sympathize and understand her more. it was the music someone of her age would have listened to now. i think the soundtrack was genius.
shareKeep in mind that it wasn't Sofia's intention in making an accurate historical movie-- it's definitely not made to educate either. It's pretty much an impressionistic style, hence the New Wave and Post Punk music in this film.
Even though the songs are pretty modern for the time setting of the movie, I thought most of the music was very fitting. It's not as if she picked random 80s pop songs to make this film.
It was a little odd, but I didn't really mind it. We should note that not all of the music in the movie is modern. A lot of the score actually is classical, in fact.
shareI was pleasantly surprised... I almost turned it off when suddenly when they get married they actually dance to beautiful classical music; the way it was going I was expecting (dreading is the word) hip hop, like at the proms nowadays.
Thanks God they didn't play that American Pie music all the time, didn't go well with the amazing scenery and costumes.
You probably didn't recognize half the songs because you have crappy taste huh
shareThe problem here is that that in the year 2034 the soundtrack will sound incredibly dated, so now you have a "period piece" with music that doesn't fit the period and yet the soundtrack is dated to another period, the 80's, so what do you have left?
shareA great film. Those stand the test of time and music. Do you stop watching "To Have and Have Not" because most of the music was written by Hoagey Carmichael? Or how about any of the period films scored by say...Philip Glass? No. If you DO only want to hear non-"dated" music, then you would have to throw out your entire collection of movies AND music every year!
Another thought: most of the music was "dated" when Coppola made the film.
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I think that last point is important. To use music from 2006 would indeed have risked it being dated-sounding later; but instead she picked music that was relatively modern but had stood the test of time for a couple decades.
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You couldn't have said it better. Exactly!
shareThis cracked me up!
You probably didn't recognize half the songs because you have crappy taste huh
I thought it was out of place but I don't consider this to be a masterpiece.
Just a watchable film. Nothing more.
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I loved the soundtrack in this. But that's probably ONLY because this is my kind of music. My era. New Order, Siouxsie, Cure, Bow Wow Wow...if Sofia had made this film and added, say a Bee Gees, Nirvana, Deicide, or Kanye inspired sound track, I'd be throwing up in my mouth a little bit...ok, a lot!
I agree! It was a HORRRRRRRIBBBLE choice made by Sophia. It's one of the reasons why her film received a rating less than 6.5. A period show is meant to be for all viewers of all times - one that is not directed to only one cross-section of audience (people who were born in the 60s to 80s). Besides, not all people enjoy punk music and even if they do, you just can't put contemporary music as a soundtrack for a movie depicting the baroque times and it's not like the baroque age had little music developed that the director couldn't help herself not to chose except rock and roll or punk music. Such a shame.
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