Scoring The Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtracks: The Music That Characterises His Films, Plays Characters In His Films
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Quentin Tarantino uses music to set the scene, he uses it to evoke, to create a mood, to pay tribute to other movies (often this is secondary to setting/mood) and to help motivate the characters in his films. He uses music as a character in his films; the soundtrack becomes a character – in the early films, especially, the soundtrack was iconic, a selli…
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