While writing my soundtrack review for TRON: Legacy, I became fascinated by the large number of musical themes and motifs being used throughout the film, but I decided not to dwell on them too much in the review for a few reasons:
- It sort of becomes a laundry list of facts. This song plays here. That song plays there. It’s not very meaningful or interesting to read unless you’ve seen the film.
- For some people, themes are expected, so it’s not necessarily a strong point to build my review on. They might say “Of course the score has themes, but what else does it do?”
- The review was already getting a bit long. I wasn’t losing too much by leaving this stuff out.
But I think these themes say something important about Daft Punk and orchestrator/arranger Joseph Trapanese – that they really cared about the work they were doing. They could have written a bunch of catchy tunes that didn’t relate to each other at all, but instead they dove head-first into classical composition. So if you’re interested in deconstructing the score on a smaller level, pick up a copy of the album or Grooveshark it and read on!
Beware: story spoilers below!
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