The Movie's Music

The music in the movies is just as important to the plot and films its self. The music can either make or break the movie to me. It’s nothing worse than a good movie and the music sucks. I don’t think people realize how important the presence of good music is to a film or lack of good music. My mother collects soundtracks to movies. I love listening to the songs on the soundtrack and remembering where in the movie I heard it. I love music just as much as I love movies. An example of a good movie and soundtrack is the one from the movie Bamboozled. Bamboozled is a Spike Lee Film that deals with “new age menstrual shows.” The soundtrack features many good artist such as Common, India Arie, Prince, and Stevie Wonder to name a few. Stevie Wonder is a musician that I admire very much. Not only did he have good songs for Spike Lee’s movies, but he had good songs for other movies as well. An example of this was the song that was featured in the movie Poetic Justice. There is a scene in the movie where the character Justice, who is played by Janet Jackson, is alone by herself and starts to get deep in thought.



I love that song. “I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer” it’s a sad song but I like it. Now whenever I hear that song I think of my friend Dana Brown that just passed away. Even though Dana didn’t pass in the summer, I still think of how I never thought she would leave me……not anytime soon anyway. That goes back to my reason for saying how important the music or score is to the film. It can make you think, laugh, or cry and to me that adds a whole lot to an average film.