There Will Be Blood (OST)

Paul Thomas Anderson's fifth film, There Will Be Blood, is too monumental and odd to not provoke sharply divided opinions, but all reviews, from raves to revulsion, agree on two points: Daniel Day Lewis' performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is astonishing, and Jonny Greenwood's score is extraordinary. Lewis dominates the film, appearing in all but one scene, and Greenwood's music is used far more sparingly, yet it's no less indelible. From the moment the film opens to a spare, unrelenting Californian landscape, Greenwood's tense, coiled score mirrors the eerie emotional undercurrent to the film, pulling suppressed feelings to the surface, often with an almost operatic sense of drama. This is grand music, but it's also controlled, unleashing its furious clashes of dissonance with precision. Greenwood has demonstrated such mastery of mood as the guitarist within Radiohead, but There Will Be Blood is superficially far removed from that band's restless experiments with electronic music. There are no electric instruments here at all -- this is all orchestral music, created on instruments that were available at the film's setting of the beginning of the twentieth century, yet Greenwood doesn't attempt to re-create turn-of-the-century mores: he writes music that taps into the rotten heart of Daniel Plainview. This is magnificently unsettling music, whether it's used within the film or heard on its own terms; either way, it's impossible to forget after it's been heard.

Paul Thomas Anderson's fifth film There Will Be Blood is too monumental and odd to not provoke sharply divided opinions but all reviews, from raves to revulsion, agree on two points: Daniel Day Lewis' performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is astonishing, and Jonny Greenwood's score is extraordinary. Lewis dominates the film, appearing in all but one scene, and Greenwood's music is used far more sparingly yet it's no less indelible. From the moment the film fades open to a spare, unrelenting Californian landscape, Greenwood's tense, coiled score mirrors the eerie emotional undercurrent to the film, pulling suppressed feelings to the surface, often with an almost operatic sense of drama. This is grand music, but it's also controlled, unleashing its furious clashes of dissonance with precision. Greenwood has demonstrated such mastery of mood as the guitarist within Radiohead but There Will Be Blood is superficially far removed from that band's restless experiments with electronic music. There are no electric instruments here at all -- this is all orchestral music, created on instruments that were available at the film's setting of the beginning of the 20th century, yet Greenwood doesn't attempt to re-create turn-of the-century mores: he writes music that taps into the rotten heart of Daniel Plainview. This is magnificently unsettling music, whether it's used within the film or heard on its own terms -- either way, it's impossible to forget after it's been heard. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

アカデミー賞主要部門最多ノミネート作品として話題を集める映画のサントラ……というよりも、ロック好きならレディオヘッドのギタリストによるソロ第2弾と覚えましょう。前作はエレクトロニカ色が強めでしたが、今作ではストリングスを真ん中に据えた室内楽を披露!　しかも、はっきりとしたメロディーを持たないインスト集につき、パッと聴きの敷居は高い。とはいえ、劇的な展開にズルズルと引き込まれてしまうのですよ!
bounce (C)山西 絵美

久々の、ポール・トーマス・アンダーソン監督新作、 音楽はレディオヘッドのジョニー・グリーンウッドによる 室内楽。 『ＴＨＥＲＥ　ＷＩＬＬ　ＢＥ　ＢＬＯＯＤ』（２００７） サウンドトラック 音楽　ジョニー・グリーンウッド 監督　ポール・トーマス・アンダーソン 主演　ダニエル・デイ・ルイス、ポール・ダノ 『ブギーナイツ』『マグノリア』の天才監督、ポール・トーマス・ アンダーソン、今回は、名優ダニエル・デイ・ルイスを迎えての、 石油ビジネスでの成功を夢見る男の物語。そして、音楽は、 なんとレディオヘッドのギタリスト、ジョニー・グリーンウッドに依頼。 グリーンウッド作曲によるストリングス（ピアノが入るナンバーも あり）の楽曲をＢＢＣコンサート・オーケストラが演奏。 明確なメロディラインは持たない、抽象画のような世界。 ＰＴＡ作品のスコアといえば、過去のジョン・ブライアンの独自の ドラマティックな世界とは方向性を変える、乾いた、静かな狂気 のような雰囲気か。文学的インストゥルメンタル。 (C)馬場敏裕