SoundtrackVerse

This blog is a uni-projoect focusing on similar sequences in soundtracks from popular movies, tv series, videogames.

[prunelya]

Lea O'Connell

Le Grand Hôtel Campo del Fiori abandonné à Varèse, en Italie, construit en 1912.

[thesmegalodon]

“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

[qthewhatever]

"bigger idiots than me have done it" is a phrase I live by

[pierppasolini]

Peanuts (November 1, 1977) by Charles M. Schulz

[illustratus]

Italian Ruins with Travellers by Brian Barrow

After Charles-Louis Clérisseau

[robert-hadley]

FMR Magazine Gen/Feb 1989. John Soane's Museum / Home. Photo by Massimo Listri

[nevver]

For the light that left us, Keita Morimoto

[nevver]

Sin in the suburbs, Mayumi Tsuzuki

[thecollectibles]

Pixel Art by 温田町子

[nevver]

Ultramedium, Lee Stewart

[huariqueje]

Window Light - Michael Banning , 2025.

American , b. 1966 -

Oil on mounted linen , 12 x 12 in.

[withoutyourwalls]

Leon Berkowitz

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[soundtrackverse]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_9DIItI)

[soundtrackverse]

17. Three Farmers - Fantastic Mr. Fox (Additional Music)

Alexandre Desplat's music in Wes Anderson's movies

‘Three Farmers’ Fantastic Mr. Fox | ‘Night Train to Nebelsbad’ The Grand Budapest Hotel

‘The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe, Part 1: A Veiled Mist’ and  ‘The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe, Part 4-6: Thunder’ Moonrise Kingdom (but also all music composed by Desplat included in the soundtrack is just variation on a theme which is later used in -->) |  ‘J.G. Jopling, Private Inquiry Agent’ The Grand Budapest Hotel

Moonrise Kingdom movie and soundtrack review

Composing The Folk Music Of A Made-Up Country (for Grand Budapest)

Alexandre Desplat: The Grand Budapest Hotel review

Music in Film: Under The Skin and The Grand Budapest Hotel

Film and Score Review: Moonrise Kingdom

MOONRISE KINGDOM – Alexandre Desplat

[soundtrackverse]

Philip Glass - Adams' Theme (The Thin Blue Line Soundtrack)

Philip Glass v Carter Burwell

Philip Glass 

The Thin Blue Line (1988) ‘Adam’s Theme’

The Truman Show (1998) ‘Raising the Sail’

The Hours (2002) ‘I’m Going to Make a Cake’

The Illusionist (2006) ‘The Orange Tree’

Carter Burwell Carol (2015) ‘Opening,’ ‘Lovers,’ ‘To Court’

Carol soundtrack review

Carol soundtrack review with remarks towards the Glassian piano (it was a shocker for me too to learn the composer was not in fact Philip Glass)

Burwell’s remarks on the soundtrack and the creating process

Carter Burwell’s Carol review of themes and inspirations

Philip Glass-Half Full an article by Terry Teachout about Glass’s characteristic style, with a notion that his music’s ‘uneventfulness’ makes his soundtracks unsuccessful and not catch the attention of listeners for long (an opinion with which I disagree)

[soundtrackverse]

Film Music Similarities

Some examples of similarities between music for films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, Batman Begins, Gladiator and Transformers. Yes, a lot of...

The video aims to point out the similarities in soundtracks of various many, though it focuses on composers like Klaus Badelt, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Steve Jablonsky, and Hans Zimmer who particularly likes to repeat himself. I understand that there aren’t unlimited possibilities and sooner or later composers are bound to repeat themselves but for many soundtrack buffs (myself included) these similarities are often downright annoying. Is this a question of making a ‘trademark sound‘ (you hear Hans Zimmer you know it’s him) or counting for the viewers/listeners to ignore the similarities?

While watching pay attention to:

Hans Zimmer King Arthur ‘Woad to Ruin’ | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ‘One Day’

James Horner Titanic ‘Rose’ | Klaus Badelt The Time Machine ‘Good Night’ | Hans Zimmer  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ‘I See Dead People in Boats’

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard Batman Begins ‘The Chase’ | Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘Soccent Attack’

Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ‘The Kraken’ | Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘Scorponok’ (intros)

Hans Zimmer King Arthur  ‘Woad to Ruin’ |  Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘No Sacrifice, No Victory’

Hans Zimmer Gladiator, and all three PotC movies

Hans Zimmer King Arthur  ‘Woad to Ruin’ |  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ‘Hello Beastie’  

[soundtrackverse]

Cliff Martinez - Finish Your Breakfast (The Knick OST)

Cliff Martinez + Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross + Mac Quayle

Cliff Martinez The Knick (August 2014) ‘Finish Your Breakfast’ and ‘Placental Repair’

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl (September 2014) ‘What Have We Done To Each Other?’ and ‘Procedural’

Mac Quayle Mr. Robot (June 2015) ‘I Hate Society’ and ‘I’ve Been Lying To You.’

Composer Cliff Martinez and director Steven Soderbergh on their creation

On the innovative music of The Knick

Gone Girl soundtrack review

Interview with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack to Gone Girl

The Music of 'Mr. Robot': An Interview with Composer Mac Quayle (who was an assistant composer to Cliff Martinez for Drive, Contagion, The Company You Keep, and Spring Breakers.)

Mr. Robot’s Composer on the Show’s Musical Influences and Elliot’s Personal Theme-Song