Slate video on overused classical music in movies

LadyInque

Here's a little video about the classical pieces that keep getting used in movies, despite the fact that O Fortuna doesn't do what they want it to anymore. I thought I'd share it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2016/08/why_hollywood_needs_to_expand_its_classical_music_repertoire_video.html

Any thoughts? It made me wish I had a deeper knowledge of the deeper cuts of classical music.

bpewien · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:32 pm Post subject:

Well, coming from the classical sector I know the pain of over-, or even worse, misused classical music in films ^^

Many times it makes watching the film or tv episode more distracting than really supporting the story or emotion, but for comedic effect of course it can do great things Smile

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