Wednesday, October 28, 2009

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

The music that John William's created for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial captures both the innocence of childhood and new expierences, as well as the moods that both ET and Elliott experience throught the film. It has many of the same aspects of the classical hollywood underscoring that we have seen before. The playful underscoring can be heard through almost the whole film.
We also see the use of leitmotifs. The hunter's leitmotif has a more aggressive sound than that of ET or Elliott. The music also seems to move or move along with the plot. The music in this film also has a unique mystical or magical senses to it. It has a little bit of suspense built in with some mystery.

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