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Originally Posted by Vance
I am talking mainly about the scene in which they discover the aliens underground, and the tripod comes out, and it creates a small earthquake in the process, and you see cars flying and people watch this thing that they've never in their wildest dreams have seen, fold out into this odd-looking tripod thing making weird noises and such. There is no music here because the director wants you to hear all of those sounds, and the buildings shattering, and the people screaming. He wants you to feel like you're actually there, watching with those people, wondering what it is. There is absolutely NO music until the Heat-Ray begins to fire on people and people start running and dying, and then the panicky frightening music kicks in.
This is almost the same thing with Saving Private Ryan, there is no music during the first 30 minutes of Omaha Beach , because it would ruin the realism and terrifying nature of the scene entirely. And there is hardly and music to that, either. But did it take away from it being a great movie? No, it enhanced it.
This is my opinion.
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Obviously they won't put music on the omaha beach landing. I didn't even notice any music when the lasers cut in. To be totally honest, the first time I heard music was when they discovered the jetplane crashed into the house. That was the first time that I heard anything. Hell, I could have invisioned like a freakin radio song playing while cruise was driving around in his car (that's too picky, but i'm just giving it as an example. It wouldn't really 'enhance' the scene any since he's just driving around.).
As the storm was forming, I could envision some major minor seventh chords being played, or even some thirteenth chords to draw some suspense to it.