Jasmine Adel

Although many believe that cinema and its revenues depend primarily on the weight of the names of actors and directors, followed by the performance of the performance and plot, soundtrack has always played an inspiring role in the films, and it often becomes a major hero in the work and a reason for his brilliance and immortality in the minds of the audience.

In this report, we will review the most important films in which soundtracks played a major role that contributed significantly to the success of the work or enhanced the integration of its elements.

A masterpiece of all standards
The Godfather trilogy is a masterpiece of all standards, both directing and performing, and plot, making it extremely popular with movie lovers. Its first part was released in 1972, yet it is still able to occupy the second place in the list of "IMDB" site for the top 250 films in the history of cinema.

The film won three Oscars out of 11 nominations, five Golden Globes, a British BAFTA Award, and raised revenues ranging from $ 245 million to $ 286 million, out of a budget of just $ 6.5 million.

All of the above confirms the completion of the elements of the work of which soundtrack was one of the most important factors of his success.It came unique, composed by musician Nino Rota, who succeeded in spreading the Italian spirit between the folds of the work, in accordance with the atmosphere of drama and crime as befits a film centered on the Italian Mafia.

The album's soundtrack was nominated for the Oscar, before the Academy withdrew its nomination after discovering that one of his songs - "Love Theme" - is a rewritten version of the music of Nino Rota himself, previously written for the film "Fortunella" (Fortunella) in 1953, though this did not prevent the film's soundtrack from winning the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy.

The film that changed the map of French cinema
Non-American and British films may be less watched and popular than others, but from time to time some foreign films appear to impose on everyone, even those unfamiliar with that type of cinema.

"Amélie", released in 2001, is one of the films that have achieved this, but succeeded to the degree that qualified him to nominate to the five Oscars in addition to the Golden Globe and win Bafta. His revenues amounted to $ 174 million, placing him on the throne of the most lucrative French films in America, even in the history of all French cinema.

The film combines romance and comedy, though its unconventional plot was made dreamy and soft, and the same applied to soundtracks that sounded like a pure magic piece, written by composer Jan Thiersen, who had no fame outside France at the time.

Although director Jean-Pierre Jounieh wanted to attribute music to Michael Neiman, fate had a different opinion. That Tersen is his desired man, which changed the artistic life of Tersen himself forever.

About the pain of loss, death and other things
If sadness had a voice, it would have been the soundtrack of Manchester 2016's Manchester by the Sea, which won two Oscars, two BAFTA and a Golden Globe.

The story of the film is very dramatic, about a father who inadvertently causes the death of the closest people to him, which makes him live with a tremendous and lasting sense of guilt, even after his departure from his town and the passage of years, and what is not counted is that his elder brother dies and entrusted him with custody of his son.

Faced with the heroic desire not to return and a sense of responsibility, he is forced to return to the place where he experienced his worst nightmares, which makes him burdened all the time without being able to unload or sadness that nothing on his chest.

All this and more embodied the soundtrack of the film, especially that director Kenneth Lonergan resorted to the use of music in many expressive scenes that came free of dialogue, in order to guide the public's feelings about the intended situation.

The music was composed by Leslie Barber, although his music combined with previous pieces by George Frederick Handel and Tommazo Albinoni, which is typical for Lonergan's films, which tend to use classical music in his films as well as contemporary soundtracks.

Music comes first
Whether or not you watched the famous Cowboy movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", you probably listened to his soundtrack somewhere.

Inio Morikone's music does not resemble any other music, and more importantly, it is perfectly in line with the spirit of the work, which resulted in her occupying one of the main roles in the film clearly; Specifically listen to music first and then put her viewer not vice versa.

During his music, Morikoni used many instruments and sounds from the environment, such as whistling, human sounds, gun sounds, howling of wolves, etc. He also made each character a machine to distinguish them separately, while using the flute of the character "good", resorted to the machine Ukrina "to the fierce", and devoted human voices "ugly."

In 1968, the main melody was on the throne and continued for more than a year. The entire soundtrack album was ranked fourth in the Billboard magazine's list of the most popular film music of the time.