Day 7 of the 31 Day Film Challenge: A film with your favourite soundtrack.
This is a hard one. There
are so many memorable soundtracks out there—Ry Cooder’s haunting slide guitar
in Paris, Texas, the cool jazz of
Miles Davis for Ascenseur pour l'échafaud,
every Arlen and Harburg song in The
Wizard of Oz. Yet if I had to choose one it would be The Third Man (1949). Composed and performed by Anton Karas on the
zither (an instrument that would become world famous after the release of the
film), the soundtrack for The Third Man
is as much a character in the film as any of the actors. From the first jangly notes
of the theme song (often referred to as “The Harry Lime Theme”), the viewer is instantly transported to bleak, post-war Vienna while the often up-beat
tempo of the music only serves to heighten the already paranoid atmosphere. One of the
greatest soundtracks for one of the greatest films ever made.
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