--- In [email protected], Bhairitu wrote: > > On 12/12/2013 04:36 PM, authfriend@... wrote: > > > > I'm of two minds about the use of existing serious music in films. On > > one hand, at least moviegoers get some exposure to it. On the other, > > it imposes a kind of sentimentality (positive and/or negative) on the > > music that is not native to it and that can impede genuine > > appreciation. The ultimate horrible example, for me, is the use of > > "Ride of the Valkyries" as background for the atrocities portrayed in > > /Apocalypse Now/. It's almost impossible to hear the music without the > > mental intrusion of images of helicopters slaughtering innocent > > Vietnamese civilians. Yes, both have to do with battles, but of very > > different types--one mythical and gloriously heroic, the other utterly > > depraved. > > Coppola was using that piece to mock the war. Coppola's father was a > professional musician and composer.
The very *idea* that there can be such a thing as "mythical and gloriously heroic" battle reveals a great deal about the person who tries to turn *everything* into a battle. *All* forms of battle reveal nothing more than a poverty of imagination and intelligence on the part of the participants.
