Connection of the Arts

[2thefuture]

Listening to music and writing anything seems to come hand in hand. Isn't it amazing how there are so many variation of the arts such as drawing, painting, writing, music, theatre, photography, even reading! Art surrounds us wherever we go, and even those who find there escape n a reality outside of our own through the magic of words find the magic leaking from the words into there perspective on their own life. What d you feel more connected to? I would expect that reading and/or writing would be most members' first answer, but I'm curious to see the true variety.

[zeldas_lullaby]

OK, well, I have some ideas. There's a list:

* I compose piano music. (However, I only write one tune every few years. I can't force it.) I also play the simple tunes I know, maybe once a week or so. My brain is really slow, so I can't play anything beyond intermediate (if that), even after a lifetime of lessons.
* I write.
* I do woodworking and DIY and love to decorate my living area with color!! Vibrant color everywhere!

Those are my three main creative outlets. Reading is actually not on the list. I used to read voraciously, but now it's become tedious because of how slow my mind works. I'm better at writing than reading. (It doesn't make sense to me either.)

[DATo]

Not for me. Listening to music while writing or doing anything else which requires concentration is very distracting in my case.

With regard to "connections": though this may seem to refute what I have written above, I would say musical scores written for cinema. The two best examples I can cite are the musical scores of the movies The Red Violin and Cinema Paradiso. In my opinion the musical themes of these two movies perfectly compliment the stories. Another would be the theme from The Deer Hunter though this music was not originally written for this movie so perhaps it should not be cited though once again, only in my opinion, it was also perfectly suited to the movie. If it HAD it been originally written for the movie it would have qualified, and probably won the Academy Award that year.

[zeldas_lullaby]

DATo, I think the original poster meant that creative types listen to a lot of music and write a lot, but not necessarily at the same time. (I almost never listen to music, though--it pollutes my emotional centers.)

I haven't seen any of those movies! I bet they have good music!

[DATo]

DATo, I think the original poster meant that creative types listen to a lot of music and write a lot, but not necessarily at the same time. (I almost never listen to music, though--it pollutes my emotional centers.)

I haven't seen any of those movies! I bet they have good music!

Ahhh ! Thanks for the clarification.

Pick up the two movies I mentioned, I really think you will like them, but if you get Cinema Paradiso make sure it is the shorter version. You DO NOT want to see the director's cut. They ruined the original movie by adding a lot of nonsense to the director's cut.

These two movies will leave you stunned at the end. And if you are not both laughing and crying at the end of Paradiso you aren't human. The ending of this movie has no dialogue whatsoever, it is all visual, but it was the most powerful emotional punch to the gut I have ever experienced in cinema. I read a post at another site in which a poster mentioned that his coach forced his team to watch this movie in the locker room when they got too big for their britches thinking they were big-shot jocks. The poster said at the end of the movie they were all trying to hide the fact that they all had tears rolling down their cheeks *LOL*

The Red Violin is my favorite movie of all time. It left me breathless and I have heard others say exactly the same thing. Roger Ebert said he absolutely LOVED this movie. On that recommendation I picked it up. It was the most rewarding movie-watching experience I have ever had, VERY closely followed by Cinema Paradiso.

The music in both of these movies is sublimely beautiful, and as stated above, perfectly suited for the movies for which they were written.

[zeldas_lullaby]

HA HA--funny story about the locker room!!

I do love well-written movie music. Probably the best movie I could recommend in that regard would be The Horse Whisperer.

I would watch the movies you mentioned, but I actually haven't seen any movies in several years--not even on TV. I have some bizarre difficulty sitting through them, even when I'm at home and can take breaks, versus being at the theater. (Same with TV shows, same with reading. I used to do all of those things all the time. But--and I thank God for this--it doesn't affect my writing.) So even though your recommendation is highly trustworthy, I just don't see it happening!!

I bet you're right and that movie would make me cry buckets!! I know The Horse Whisperer can't be watched--the whole first half hour of it--without massive sobbing. I actually recommend it to people who need a good cry, for whatever reason. I know a person who was grieving, and she kept watching it, and it got to be rather macabre, though. I'd call her up, she'd be crying, and I'd say, "You haven't been watching The Horse Whisperer again, have you?"

And she'd say, "Ye-e-e-e-es!! But it isn't my fault. It came on."

I guess it helped her work through her feelings, though. But that movie is heady stuff. Especially, like I said, the first half hour.

[DATo]

I would watch the movies you mentioned, but I actually haven't seen any movies in several years--not even on TV. I have some bizarre difficulty sitting through them, even when I'm at home and can take breaks, versus being at the theater. (Same with TV shows, same with reading. I used to do all of those things all the time. But--and I thank God for this--it doesn't affect my writing.) So even though your recommendation is highly trustworthy, I just don't see it happening!!

OK, but you can still listen to the music. Below are the two main themes of each movie's soundtrack.

Cinema Paradiso - 'Se' ('If') Love Theme
This movie won the Academy Award for best foreign film (Italy) in 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOK51GVHfDc

The Red Violin - Anna's Theme (turn up sound)
The soundtrack, of which this is the central theme, won the Academy Award in 2000 - Also a foreign film (Canada).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvQ-xWFAXXU

Once again - the music of these two movies is, in my opinion, an example of THE perfect "connection" between two art forms. Oh, how I wish you could see the movies too! They're both magical.

Hope you like !

[zeldas_lullaby]

Well, DATo, I hate to tell you this, but my computer doesn't view youtube videos. Yeah, it's a 2007 Windows box deal and it always gives me an error message...

HA HA HA. All true, but to show you I'm a good sport, I found them on Amazon and bought them for under a dollar.

Geez, you were right about Anna's theme--I could barely hear it with everything blasting. It sounded really mystical, but it was a stretch to hear it. (I don't have any speakers, but I have some plug-in headphones.)

I had better luck with the If Love Theme. It was enchanting--you're right!! Gorgeous!!

I promise you that if I ever "overcome" my inability to watch movies, then I will pick one or both of these and watch them!! Hey, stranger things have happened!!

I love your ability to find the magical!! I used to have that and I've lost it in a lot of ways, but for my writing!!