Lorne Balfe over de OST van Mission: Impossible Fallout

RDJ134 31 juli 2018 om 16:08 uur

De Mission Impossible franchise hanteert een bijna standaard formule die elke film bijna hetzelfde maakt, maar toch steeds weer zeer lekker blijft om na te kijken. Nu zal op 30 juli dit Mission: Impossible - Fallout in de Nederlandse bioscopen te zien zijn. Want er gaat weer een missie fout en moet het hele IMF team weer vechten voor hun leven. Ter promotie had de website Collider een interview met Lorne Balfe over de OST van Mission:Impossible Fallout en deze kan je hier lezen en een stukje daar uit hier onder lezen.


Your score for this film is really fantastic.

LORNE BALFE
: Well it's nothing in comparison to the movie, is the only way I can look at it. Somebody said to me yesterday, "So where did the inspiration come from to write such big music?" And I said, "Watch the movie." It's the reason we probably had one of the biggest orchestras on a score in a long time. Every time there's a new jump, or a new stunt, the next one's even bigger. And then the next one's even bigger, so the sheer epicness of it came from the visuals.

It sounds like an exciting and daunting prospect. How did you first get involved in it? How'd the project come your way?

BALFE
: It came my way in several paths. I had worked on Dunkirk, and Jake [Myers] was a producer on that, and he was also the producer on Mission. So there was that connection. The other connection was I've worked a lot for Paramount and Skydance, so there's a lot of mutual relationships. And actually, Randy Spendlove from Paramount, the head of music, got me the meeting with Chris McQuarrie, so I was very fortunate for that.

They basically let this meeting happen, and every time Chris spoke about what the movie was about, and what the tone and the story was, I just went away and wrote. Instead of talking a lot, I basically wrote music and gave them a musical ledger of what he had been describing to me about Ethan's journey. And also, we're dealing with a very famous theme. It's one of the most well-known themes in the world. I wanted to also show how you can give it a more left-field approach, and just spin it on it's head. That was the journey, and we're coming up to close to a year ago that I really got involved in this. It's been a long journey.

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