For years certain telenovelas which may or may not end in -ebelde, -lase 401, and so on have been a not-terribly-guilty pleasure of mine. I think they're awesome. Just one of many things I find appealing about these shows is the music, which tends to be thematic, ridiculously over the top and occasionally reminds me of good ol' anime and VG soundtracks (though thematic more in the sense that they tend to recycle music rather than rework transparent themes, unlike primetime American TV which often consists of short sitcom-y jingles or brand new yet equally indistinguishable music that gets rolled out every week.) Despite a soft spot for it, this music isn't necessarily particularly interesting or of great quality. Just finished on the other hand watching my first episode of Eva Luna - which happens to be on demand starting at episode 84 - and the soundtrack rules. Hope to rub some of it off for some Shafted...Episode 5 should be along in the next two weeks!
-R
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Om Shanti Om and etc.
On a side note, Om Shanti Om is a wonderful movie. For the first half. After the intermission it jumps the shark something fierce.
Also, Daniel and I ought to be finishing episode 2 of Shafted soon.
-R
Also, Daniel and I ought to be finishing episode 2 of Shafted soon.
-R
Plagiarism
Hey guys,
So what counts as plagiarism? If Tosh can do his "Is it racist?" segment, I think I'm due for a "Is it plagiarism?" segment.
The following is the theme from the 2009 movie "The Uninvited", the refrain of which is time-linked through the link and features prominently in the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAu4SrY1wkA&t=1m15s
And here is a song from the 2007 Bollywood hit "Om Shanti Om", which incorporates the same theme, which was featured VERY prominently throughout the movie (after all, it's Bollywood. Thematic consistency - to the point of beating you over the head with it - is a hallmark of the genre):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEjcUKhhsW0&t=15s
Is this plagiarism? Of course it could be (and it damn well sounds like it to me - although being a professed fan of Bollywood makes me a bit biased here.) Now on the one hand, this particular thematic motif is simply exquisite (and appears in much better renditions in Om Shanti Om as well - this is all I could find on short notice after just finishing watching the last 40 minutes of "The Uninvited" and noticing "hey, you know what? you stole that.") It's also very simple, so for two composers to arrive at the same theme is in principle not that difficult. Christopher Young! I've got my eye on you. Feel free to come out of the woodwork to defend yourself!
So what counts as plagiarism? If Tosh can do his "Is it racist?" segment, I think I'm due for a "Is it plagiarism?" segment.
The following is the theme from the 2009 movie "The Uninvited", the refrain of which is time-linked through the link and features prominently in the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAu4SrY1wkA&t=1m15s
And here is a song from the 2007 Bollywood hit "Om Shanti Om", which incorporates the same theme, which was featured VERY prominently throughout the movie (after all, it's Bollywood. Thematic consistency - to the point of beating you over the head with it - is a hallmark of the genre):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEjcUKhhsW0&t=15s
Is this plagiarism? Of course it could be (and it damn well sounds like it to me - although being a professed fan of Bollywood makes me a bit biased here.) Now on the one hand, this particular thematic motif is simply exquisite (and appears in much better renditions in Om Shanti Om as well - this is all I could find on short notice after just finishing watching the last 40 minutes of "The Uninvited" and noticing "hey, you know what? you stole that.") It's also very simple, so for two composers to arrive at the same theme is in principle not that difficult. Christopher Young! I've got my eye on you. Feel free to come out of the woodwork to defend yourself!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
No, seriously.
Night shift here is such a toss up. Sometimes it's dead quiet, sometimes it's just really busy. Tonight was more of the latter, and though I clearly have some downtime right now, it's been a LONG shift (my karmic reward for complaining about not getting enough hours perhaps). Anyway, I just finished the final draft of the voiceover for Shafted! - Episode 2 tonight, which together with the writing and rewriting Daniel and I do together is by far the most difficult part of the process. I look forward to working with Daniel to add music and sound effects to the mix soon. So it should be done in the next few weeks.
Tron Legacy was good, but it didn't break my mind the way, say, the new Star Trek broke my mind. In fact, it really didn't do much in the mind-breaking field at all, and I saw it in an Imax. I did look forward a lot to hearing Daft Punk's soundtrack, being quite the fan. They delivered about as expected. Though their versatility is very impressive and I look forward to hearing their future cinematic offerings (of which I am quite confident there will be more), their lack of experience in the genre is telling, and some of the less dance-inspired and more cinematic tracks are quite derivative. Think Batman Betrons. Or to a lesser extent, Tronception.
Anyway gotta go.
-R
Tron Legacy was good, but it didn't break my mind the way, say, the new Star Trek broke my mind. In fact, it really didn't do much in the mind-breaking field at all, and I saw it in an Imax. I did look forward a lot to hearing Daft Punk's soundtrack, being quite the fan. They delivered about as expected. Though their versatility is very impressive and I look forward to hearing their future cinematic offerings (of which I am quite confident there will be more), their lack of experience in the genre is telling, and some of the less dance-inspired and more cinematic tracks are quite derivative. Think Batman Betrons. Or to a lesser extent, Tronception.
Anyway gotta go.
-R
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