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Scoring Scores

The music of a movie is everything. The background music and sound coincide with every shift in tone, mood or scene. Several movies have memorable scores as in Star Wars, Star Trek, Jaws and Jurassic Park. These movies have original scores that are memorable and connect with that movie forever. Movies also can have original soundtracks with known artist to score the movie. Recent movies with great soundtracks are Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy. The music in the background to a movie play a huge part in every aspect of the movie even when you do not realize it. It is the rise in sound that inflicts suspense and sudden loud instrument to frighten you in a horror movie. Scoring isn’t just music though, it is also every other sound that goes into a movie. In animated movies the clack of heels on hard wood floor, the bang of a thunderstorm all goes into scoring. Different tactics are used to make these sounds also. Beans in a bottle can be rain and banging pots togethe

The Book is Better

     From the Harry Potter series to the classics like The Great Gatsby you will always find that the book is better than the movie.            This claim has proved true for majority of movie adaptions of books. They are not just better because bookworms, like me, swear by it and are attached to them, but several factors play out that make books generally better that their movie adaptions.            When one reads a book they have their own interpretation of it. This leads everyone to have their own versions of the book. Of course everyone has the same descriptions and physical expectations.            Screenwriters are not exempt from these fact and so writers write the depiction of the books that they imagined. This also includes their opinion of things that they believed should be changed.            Also these physical views characters being one of the subjects that all readers will agree on makes for a strong impact. So when these beloved characters and their jo