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How about for full length silent movies?

Posted by eppis1 on February 2, 2013 at 08:49:07:
When I was growing up, watching silent movies had mostly pipe organ scores, and I was comfortable with them. The modern score for a TCM screening last weekend for a movie called "The Penalty" with Lon Chaney Sr. was "wall to wall," reminded me of an endless Phillip Glass piece. It was painful, and it was a pretty good film. Even done right, scores for silents seem to be doomed to fail. I remember the hoopla over Gance's "Napoleon," scored by Carmine Coppola, and realizing after the first couple of hours, that I didn't care about the music at all. In modern sound movies, most directors seem to use the music to compensate for poor film making, or because they realize most movie goers are nearly brain dead from television (or genetics), and use the music cues to tell the audience where to react...like a rim shot from a drummer in a stripper show. Just a rambling opinion.