The Shutter Island soundtrack. Lavish outlays of cash on sonic canvases from the back catalogue of Jumpin’ Prince Mick and the Keefster is probably what most famously characterises the soundtracks of prior Martin Scorsese movies. Whether it be stumping up a third of the, relatively meagre, Mean Streets budget for a couple of Stones cuts, or forking over really big bucks for repeat performances of Gimme Shelter (and others) in Casino and The Departed (the less said about Shine a Light the better). Recent years though have seen the director strike up a productive partnership with Howard Shore – The Lord of the Rings composer scoring the diminutive director’s last three narrative features. And it is orchestral moodiness rather than diner jukebox pillaging which dominates the soundtrack to Scorsese’s latest, the waylaid Shutter Island. However Shore is absent from proceedings, as indeed is a commissioned composer of any identity,...
- 2/21/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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