What I would like to say is DON'T YOU DARE ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME when I mention the score to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse *snicker*
Speaking of scores... I totally understand. Carter Burwell did the score for Twilight. The movie and book series may be overhyped, but the score is just beautiful. It's gorgeous music from a talented composer who writes the most ethereal and beautiful piano pieces I've heard. Just listen to his score for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.
As for someone like David Slade whoring himself out to direct a Twilight movie? I was livid. He directed Hard Candy and the ever-so-excellent 30 Days of Night. WHY DID YOU DO ECLIPSE, DAVID? Oh yeah. Money.
The whole reading thing just gets me thinking back to that experience I had in 10th grade... Our teacher had us reading Fahrenheit 451 aloud and was calling on students at random to pick up where the other left off. After listening to the fifth kid stumble through a paragraph I'd had no trouble with when I was in fourth grade, I started reading at my own pace and finished the book. The teacher called on me to pick up from the latest stopping point and I told him that I'd finished already. He yelled at me. Told me to "never do that again."
I think I gave him a "you've got to be joking" look. Here I was in 10th grade listening to kids read out loud at a fifth grade reading level and he was scolding me for actually learning something. Whatever.
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*snicker*
Speaking of scores... I totally understand. Carter Burwell did the score for Twilight. The movie and book series may be overhyped, but the score is just beautiful. It's gorgeous music from a talented composer who writes the most ethereal and beautiful piano pieces I've heard. Just listen to his score for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.
As for someone like David Slade whoring himself out to direct a Twilight movie? I was livid. He directed Hard Candy and the ever-so-excellent 30 Days of Night. WHY DID YOU DO ECLIPSE, DAVID?
Oh yeah.
Money.
The whole reading thing just gets me thinking back to that experience I had in 10th grade... Our teacher had us reading Fahrenheit 451 aloud and was calling on students at random to pick up where the other left off. After listening to the fifth kid stumble through a paragraph I'd had no trouble with when I was in fourth grade, I started reading at my own pace and finished the book. The teacher called on me to pick up from the latest stopping point and I told him that I'd finished already.
He yelled at me.
Told me to "never do that again."
I think I gave him a "you've got to be joking" look. Here I was in 10th grade listening to kids read out loud at a fifth grade reading level and he was scolding me for actually learning something. Whatever.