Estimable film composer and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself Member Clint Mansell and has either got to be offended or flattered.
Hollywood loves to appropriate his original film music compositions to goose their trailers into having that extra heightened drama that they’re always desperate for.
We already did a play-by-play on all the people that jacked “Lux Aeterna” from his celebrated score to Darren Aronofsky’s chilling, “Requiem For A Dream” (most notably “Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers”), but he’s either thinking, “why don’t these people fucking hire me in the first place?,” or just takes pride in seeing his music being used for big budget projects (and presumably smiling at the sizable checks he receives in the mail).
Well, now Mansell’s “Death Is The Road To Awe,” a song composed for Aronofsky’s psychedelic love story “The Fountain,” (and performed by Scottish indie-rockers Mogwai and fancy, avante garde classical musicians The Kronos Quartet) is being hijacked by the makers of Will Smith’s “I Am Legend.”
Shame on you! Or, good taste, depending on where you stand on film music appropriation we guesss [ed. it’s sort of two part lazy, one part flattering in our minds]. Note: Mansell has a very excellent and unreleased version of “The Fountain”s “The Last Man” on his myspace page that features the ghostly falestto of Antony Hegarty from the melancholy torch balladeers Antony & The Johnsons. It’s worth checking out.
“I Am Legend” trailer (“Death Is the Road To Awe” at the 1:56 mark)
the song isnt identical
the trailer version is more intense with a hard drumline
do u know the name of the version?
It might be slightly different, but they did the same thing with the LOTR trailer and goosed up the ‘Lux Aeterna’ (or whatever it’s called) song from “Requiem For A Dream.”
It’s what they do. Extra bombast. It’s essentially the same song.
Yeah i know..they called it requiem for a tower and they gave it to puplic. I hope they gonna release this version 2!! its great
What’s the name of the song from 0:30? It sounds great too…Clint Mansell is cool composer
I belive the song from the 0:30 mark, is called two rocks and a cup of water. And its by Massive attack.
I am a huge fan of Aronofsky`s and Mansell`s work, however Mansell`s decision to mass publicize the theme of these movies does not degrade him as a composer but does affect Aronofsky`s work since the music acts as a character of the story. Aronofsky should make sure his art does not affected by Mansell`s publicity by buying full rights to the soundtracks of his movies. If he doesn`t have the budget to do so, he cannot prevent Mansell to show off his work but if he can pay for the rights, he should do so to avoid negatively affecting his work.