Music Behind the Scenes: Love and Seduction
Music Behind the Scenes is the definitive look at the way music has become an integral part of movie-making. Each episode looks at specific movie genres and uses a wealth of instantly recognizable film footage, archive clips and interviews with major directors, their composers and stars. Music has become a powerful tool for today's directors that can in seconds create an emotional shift of enough intensity to reduce an audience to tears, laughter or have them jumping out of their seats. This series offers an entertaining and emotional journey into this most crucial aspect of all great movies. This episode will focus on the traditional compositions for a love scene and how, more recently some composers have avoided or reinvigorated the cliches to create some of the most emotional examples of film music. The history of music for love scenes is also the history of our own changing and contradictory attitudes to love and sex. The music for love scenes is often among the most cliched in cinema: swelling strings, lush themes and sentimental arrangements. Includes interviews with directors Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liasons).