The first time I met Sidney Lumet to discuss his film Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, he emphatically stated "melodrama is not a dirty word." He had made amazing movies with no music at all ( Network, Fail-safe) but for this film he wanted me to emphasize and amplify the emotions on screen, despite my reluctance to do just that.įor Breaking Dawn I had to overcome this reluctance again and again. I usually try to play something other than what's on screen, in the hope of giving greater depth or complexity to the film and the viewer's experience. You may think that this is true of all film scores, but I usually try to avoid it. In a classic melodrama the music plays every emotion and every action. The word comes from the Greek melos, which means music. The film has so much music because it is a melodrama. 80 minutes filled me with fear because there were only nine weeks before the recording. The most epic film scores I'd ever written were 60-65 minutes long, and the first Twilight had about 50 minutes of score. Bill said he was excited about bringing it back for these last films.Īs it so happens the first thing I had to do was write a piano piece for Rob Pattinson to play on-screen for Breaking Dawn Part 2, which was being shot simultaneously with Part 1, but I'll discuss that further when Part 2 is released in 2012.īill had warned me that there would be a lot of music in the film, but I was still astonished when we added it up and found the film would need about 80 minutes of score.
I hadn't worked on the second and third films in the series, and those films did not use "Bella's Lullaby," the love theme from the first Twilight.
I told him I was interested in composing the music for the films as long as he was directing. We had already worked together on two films ( Gods and Monsters and Kinsey) and I knew Bill to be intelligent, creative, and, equally important, a good guy. When I heard that Bill Condon was going to direct the last installments of the Twilight Saga, I immediately called him. Melodrama is the kingdom where no feeling goes unexpressed.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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