> He's like more famous than Michael Jackson was in his heyday. woooooooooooooow what a compliment!
--- In [email protected], Vithur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > British filmmaker and "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle is > well-known for his use of music, whether it be the punk-rock vibrancy of " > Trainspotting," the moody gauziness of "The Beach," the fancifulness of "A > Life Less Ordinary," to the dread and apocalyptic-ness of "28 Days Later." > > In this interview with Anne Thompson from > Telluride<http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/10/slumd og-million.html>, > Boyle discusses his upcoming crowd-pleaser, 'Slumdog' but also delivers this > great little quote about music which we felt we had to excerpt cause it says > a everything about how music is used in films and his unique approach. > > "The music [in films] in India is much louder, much more confident. We hide > music in Western films, because it's a hidden manipulative tool because we > don't want people to notice. We want it to to work on you and massage your > heart for whatever reason, but actually [as a filmmaker], you don't want it > to be noticed. [In India] it's like BLAM, this is music! We can dance to > this! So I love that fact that you can mix [the music] quite high, but it's > also still quite melodramatic. In India when you have an extreme there [in > film], it's so extreme, so we bring a bit of that culture I hope." > > When we saw Boyle speak at the Toronto International Film Festival, he > called A.R Rahman <http://www.arrahman.com/>, the man who composed the ' > Slumdog' score, the "Puff Daddy of India." To Thompson he says, "He's like > more famous than Michael Jackson was in his heyday. He loved doing this > because it was something different and it allowed him to crossover into > Western culture." > > <http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb52/The_Playlist/movies_music/ar- rahman-mia-slumdog.jpg>A.R > Rahman composed an original track with M.I.A. called "On Sana" for the film > and that'll be coming out on the "Slumdog Millionaire" soundtrack, details > of which are evidently being announced soon. The movie song of the year, "Paper > Planes <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g>" is in the film too, but > we're not sure if it's going to make the soundtrack yet or what. Rahman also > produced some tracks off of M.I.A.'s Kala and she calls him "the Indian > Timbaland <http://www.urb.com/features/183/MIAWorldParty.php? PageId=2>." > > It's not a big spoiler or anything since it's been reported here and there, > but 'Slumdog' unspools with a big Bollywood number on the end credits which > really makes you grin ear to ear. The Rahman-composed song is called, > "JaiHo," and that will surely be on the film's soundtrack no doubt. > > http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/11/danny-boyle-talks-his- approach-to-music.html > -- > regards, > Vithur >
