{"id":12442,"date":"2015-10-15T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:02:52","slug":"mp3-trumbo-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12442","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Trumbo (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Trumbo2015\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>:\u00a0Lakeshore Records<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>November 6, 2015<\/p>\n

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Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a028 tracks \/ (48 mins.)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Theodore Shapiro<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theodore Shapiro\u2019s score is a small work of art, a discrete portrait of the celebrated screenwriter whose career was quashed after the HUAC hearings<\/a>, sending Dalton Trumbo to jail with nine other Hollywood artists.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a clever score because Shapiro completely rejects any use of a formal main theme, avoiding the potential for maudlin melodrama, and applies a series of piano notes that are cyclically offset by a gyroscopic rhythm, giving the score both momentum and (appropriately) the tone of a suspense thriller.<\/p>\n

Subterfuge and conspiracies bleed from the chords, as well as Herrmannesque muted brass in the stellar opening track \u201cEighty Words a Minute,\u201d evoking Taxi Driver<\/b> (1976), and portraying Dalton Trumbo as free speech crusader without blasting audiences with a pinched heroic theme.<\/p>\n

Most of the tracks average 2 minutes, but the album works as a series of short statements, jabbing the listener with moments of intrigue, outrage, tenderness, and like a classic Jerry Fielding score, using slightly jazz elements, precise instrumentation, and complex rhythms to convey a character\u2019s psychological state. Instead of Democracy\u2019s wounded hero, the music of Trumbo<\/b> worms its way through his anguish of being ostracized, abandoned, and rendered a non-person.<\/p>\n

Shapiro\u2019s early work included documentaries, after which he scored a number of comedy films, but this is a fine example of his knack for tackling dramatic subtext, character psychologies, and always being aware of a character\u2019s full arc, making Trumbo<\/b> a marvelous statement on a complex and important figure in film history.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> —\u00a0 Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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