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1. In class we watched the two musical scenes from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It’s hard for me to believe that a movie with out any other music other than the two scenes with songs in it would be so popular. I don’t understand how a song that was randomly put into the movie and was so unrelated would be liked so much by the public. In the scene with the man and woman ridding a bike through a field seems like a very happy clip, and it would seem that the movie would be upbeat; When Dr. Berry told us that the film was about murders, it seemed odd that they would use such happy music, unless the criminals had just committed a perfect crime and were happy about it. There is one part in the scene with the bike riders that I would was really interesting. The two are ridding down a path with trees on the edges, and the director catches glimpse of the two through the trees with the sun shinning through. The shot to me is magnificent.
2. The movies we watched in class this week were, High Noon, To Kill a Mocking Bird, In the Heat of the Night, and American Graffiti. My favorite film out of the four was In the Heat of the Night. I really liked the musical score in the film. The mixture of Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel sounded really good in certain scenes. I had not idea that in certain songs that the musicians were making sounds with their mouths to produce a beat because their noises sounded like a real instrument. In the scene where the criminal is being chased by the police, the music sounded unlike any score we have listened to before. The music was very quick and frantic like the scene. I liked the plot of In the Heat of the Night. It addresses racial discrimination in the time period in the south that was very harsh and unjust, but in the end when the Chief is saying goodbye to Mr. Tibbs on the train, the ignorant Chief seems like he has changed and now understands the foolishness of the before racist beliefs.
3. In the reading, I read about The Planet of the Apes, we also watched a scene or two in class from the movie. I did not realize that musician used a method called Prepared Piano, which is the use of “placing screws, rubber erasers, blocks of wood, and other objects put on or between piano strings when played”. I thought that this technique sounded really good. I am not sure that I would watch the whole movie, but the music seems like it would be enjoyable.