Blade Runner's Weird Soundtrack

Kelvin 2022-04-19 09:01:11

The movie doesn't start with a traditional sci-fi movie-like stunning special effect to visually impact the audience - it starts with the music. The violin solo is majestic and magnificent, with the extension of the tail, adding a dreamy color, like being in the vast universe, vast and romantic like starlight. The harmonious interval suddenly slid downward into a semitone diminished interval, and it seemed that the alarm sounded sharply, which made people suddenly feel dangerous and extremely nervous, like a deadly meteor hitting at the speed of light, caught off guard and full of weirdness. Immediately followed by three rapid and short drum beats, if you are still immersed in the previous fantasy and fear, the percussion of this drum beat directly hits the heart, which can instantly bring people back to reality. This is followed by a similar sustained violin solo, but with a more melodious high note and a more eerie diminished interval. Harmony and dissonance complement each other, accompanied by bursts of drums, and the audience may be stunned to hear this. Strangeness, doubt, curiosity, fear, shudder, overwhelm and a series of mixed emotions are actually the best emotional driving force for the audience to look down. Throughout the whole movie, the soundtracks of many segments are played by the transposition of the bgm in the title or the third instrument. It can be said that this bgm has established a "thought-provoking and terrifying" tone for the entire movie. , is the soul of the whole movie.

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Blade Runner quotes

  • Deckard: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.

    Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?

  • Deckard: I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.