There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Label: Nonesuch
• Copyright: 2007 Nonesuch Records, Inc.
• Total Length: 32:48
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• ASIN: B001200T8A
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Score and Best Use of Score in a Movie Within Memory, February 5, 2008

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I. Martinez-Ybor "Ignacio Martínez-Ybor" (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There Will Be Blood (Audio CD)

There Will Be Blood is a great movie, a unique vision probably greater than the Upton Sinclair novel which inspired it. It would not have been as great a movie without Jonny Greenwood's music. Music deepens image, gives character to the shot, establishes the feeling. Here, dialogue is sparse; much depends on image and sound, not words. Thus this is a thoroughly cinematic movie (i.e., it shows us things, it doesn't talk us there, and in the showing, gives us meaning and feeling), the music inexorably bound in the telling, in my mind the most cinematic film of 2007. The masterful choice of the final movement of Brahms' violin concerto, used twice in the film, arguably one of the last gasps of anti-Wagner, conservative, romantic triumphalism, is perfect: "there will be blood"....... but we shall win. (For the record, Brahms didn't).

I was disturbed when I learned the Greenwood score was not nominated for an Oscar. All other nominated scores, including the very pretty, ambitious one for Atonement, sound so forgettably conventional! Subsequently I learned that Jonny's does not qualify according to Academy rules because chunks of it consist of music he had previously composed and published, never-you-mind how artfully they are worked into the film. Pity, because recognition of the highest order is obviously deserved. Director and Music Editor are also deserving of highest praise.

Greenwood is that rare breed, a thoroughly classically trained musician (and violist) who "crossed-over" to become a superb rock guitarist now perhaps coming back to his classical roots. I'm rather glad he seems to finally be firmly out of his classical closet. Jonny Greenwood deserves a statuette of some sort.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Greenwood rises from the floor of Radiohead ambience., March 25, 2008

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Joel Munyon "Joel Munyon" (Joliet, Illinois - the poohole of America.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: There Will Be Blood (Audio CD)

Greenwood, who composed the music for There Will Be Blood, is known as the fella from Radiohead who usually spends most of his time on the floor mixing sounds and adding ambience to the bands' surreal disposition. His quality is definitively effective and distinct and that same quality can be found here on the original soundtrack for There Will Be Blood.

From the start to the finish, Greenwood engulfs us in the world of the gothic and takes us across a fascinating, ethereal place where nothing is certain with one exception: that doom is fast approaching for everyone within the film.

You will feel the approaching dread as you hear the dark melody of 'Prospectors Arrive' and witness a group of eager workers flood the dusty early-morning streets of a town that doesn't stand a chance against the ravenous nature of greed and exploitation.

Greenwood hits us whether we are prepared for his outbursts of melodic darkness or not, and the result perpetuates the film's theme into our lasting consciousness long after the final credits roll past our stunned eyes. Two grand omissions stand as keeping this score from perfection. They are...

"Fratres for Violin and Piano"
by Arvö Pärt - played during the scene where H.W. loses his hearing.

"Violin Concerto in D Major (Movement III)"
Written by Brahms, played during the end credits of the film.

A solid and original piece from one of the great minds of modern music.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Score, sprawling and suffocating., December 25, 2007

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MV (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: There Will Be Blood (Audio CD)

What a stunning score, to an equally excellent film. Greenwood's score sounds as wide as the deserts in the film. For those who have heard Greenwood's music before, you will be delighted to hear bits from "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" and "Smear". As a score it is terrifying, the forceful cellos,the steady violins; at times it is as if the orchestra were playing white noise.

One slight disappointment is that you wont find the piece "Convergence" that is played during the oil well fire.

Before the film was released I heard an interview with Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson, in it Anderson states that after listening to Greenwood's music he would sometimes imagine he was still hearing it in his mind. This is exactly how I feel about this score. Watching the film it is impossible to ignore the music, and as a piece it stands on it's own as a very enjoyable listen. An instant classic.