Inception

1. Half Remembered Dream (1:12)
2. We Built Our Own World (1:56)
3. Dream Is Collapsing (2:24)
4. Radical Notion (3:43)
5. Old Souls (7:44)
6. 528491 (2:24)
7. Mombasa (4:54)
8. One Simple Idea (2:28)
9. Dream Within A Dream (5:04)
10. Waiting For A Train (9:30)
11. Paradox (3:25)
12. Time (4:36)

Catégory : Score

After dialing the two BATMAN with James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer works again, alone this time, with Christopher Nolan.

A savoir...

Hans Zimmer s'est attribué les services de Johnny Marr (guitariste du groupe anglais The Smiths) pour ce score.

Il est à noter qu'on entends également dans le film, à plusieurs reprises, la chanson "Non, je ne regrette rien" d'Edith Piaf. Un choix justifié par l'histoire et sa portée mélancolique, mais il est aussi amusant de noter le parallèle avec le personnage interprété par Marion Cotillard, décidément poursuivie par le fantôme d'Edith Piaf ! Hasard ou coïncidence ? Nolan laisse planer le doute...

Zimmer signed by a score line of air in "Batman" Nolan recalls but also in its approach athematic music by David Julyan in THE PRESTIGE. Zimmer pushed the volume way down to envelop the viewer, and creates real music both epic and immersive, which is in keeping with the film, linking dreams and reality. The opening captive within seconds with a rise of strings and brass especially impressed that literally. But the song "Dream is collapsing" is the real success of this score, its dramatic growth and sound, and recalls the highlights of the 2000s Zimmer ("Knights of Sangreal" in DA VINCI CODE, KING ARTHUR, etc. ). After being the boss of action movies of the 90s with brassy heroic themes and emphatic, Zimmer is changing in recent years towards a more radical style, perhaps simpler too, a tendency towards atmospheric / progressive Incept which is one of outcomes, the passages already quasi-experimental from THE DARK KNIGHT (the very daring "Why so serious?"). His approach reminds Incept so mix electro-rock / synth / violin Clint Mansell for Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006), one of the pioneers of this new immersive film music and progressive. The use of the electric guitar of Johnny Marr (of British band The Smiths 80s) evokes this reference.

Among these powers properly mounted dizzy, which contributes to literally slap the viewer as in a trance linking image (ultra-spectacular) and music, Zimmer is the underscore synths, using sounds that we might think but exceeded that suggest two things: first, the style of the early 90s composer (very reminiscent of the atmospheric and BLACK RAIN Pacific Heights) and secondly, the music of Vangelis to BLADE RUNNER Ridley Scott cult film by Christopher Nolan and timeless masterpiece that haunts everything Incept. The long piece "Old Souls", thereby explicitly referring to the melancholy sounds of Vangelis's score, with spacey synths and piano solo. We also think the score by Kenji Kawai GHOST IN THE SHELL. It conjures up images of furtive past Cobb (DiCaprio), his longing, his lost happiness, just as memories of misty Deckart (Harrison Ford) in Ridley Scott's film. Zimmer develops a pattern that evokes these memories, especially in connection with the character of Marion Cotillard.

Zimmer's music is sometimes just for fun, punctuating the film of thunderous percussion and electro loops in the saturation limit, thus recalling his work in action movies or DROP ZONE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2. The function score is also captivate the spectator, to punctuate the film itself interspersed sequences spectacular entertainment to better stimulate the viewer's attention thereafter. The incidental music helps materialize the action that is supposed to happen in a dream: it helps make a tangible action that does not take place in reality, and thus to make uniform the various layers of reality of history, even to blur the boundaries between dream and reality. It is his emotional function.

In "Dream Within a Dream" Zimmer found the reason epic "Dream is collapsing" in a musical crescendo outburst quite dizzying, perfectly aligned with the screen action. Thus, while essentially atmospheric, the score is still built around Incept patterns that appear and then come back occasionally as the flashbacks. Zimmer introduces another theme that will be developed in the final. "Waiting for a Train" is the second long piece of hard, kind of twin track of "Old Souls" where emotional issues are outlined in a previous emotional climax. Thus, the two end pieces ("Paradox" and "Time") are the emotional payments from all that preceded, not only musically, but also a narrative point of view: in the film is the music plays the role of emotional binding, and therefore a pattern that appears on a key scene is nothing trivial as we have heard before on another key scene. It is quite difficult to say it plays the key role in the scenario, but one thing is sure: its importance is crucial narrative.

The music has many functions, which all operate on several levels simultaneously: in addition to homogenize the film, it increased the suspense, thus helping improve the narrative, and it suggests the melancholy character DiCaprio, creating the emotion of the story. Zimmer is literally in the challenges of the script, in characters and in the assembly, and thus contribute to the success of the movie. Hans Zimmer was able to create music on a scale comparable to the film Nolan bold and playful, mental and emotional, which was built on the same conceptual and reflective model. Rarely has reached such a level of symbiosis between the approach of a composer and that of its director, because this is a very reflexive thrust. Still, the music never loses its emotional impact, and Zimmer proves once more with this film he can do more than ever, music involving the audience. Never forget the audience, taking him by the hand, and the dream, by all means possible, and beyond imagination. Incept is the greatest achievement of this ambition movie.

Sylvain Rivaud
(Translation from french with automatic rules by Google) 

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