Psycho Movie Psychology

Whether it is the unnerving “Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee!” of the movie Psycho or the suspenseful “Da-dum…Da-dum…Da-dum, Da-dum, Da-dum, Da-dum!” of Jaws, it is the music in films that cause the real responses from people. Without it, movies would lose a lot of its emotion and mood. Whether it has a warm feeling or a harsh feeling, loving feeling or a despair feeling, excitement or fear. It is music that gives the movie these sensations. To understand the importance of film scores people need to know the impact it has, how it effects people’s emotions and logic, the different techniques used, and how composers use their music.

Music has always played one of the biggest and most important roles in movies. Film scores are there to induce a range of emotions

The composer Neil Brand has said that he strongly believes that your sensibility is intensified when you go to the theater (Stewart). When we enter the cinema you are ready to experience a story to be told. You are prepared to see all the little details and hear music it plays. Music in movies are not only important for the action scenes of the suspenseful scenes but also for the more dull scenes; they help the parts made for character development and the music keeps people interested (Hagle). Hans Zimmer created the ever so popular film score for Inception, which is well known for its dramatics. Some of his other popular works are from The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Crespo). One of the most famous film score composers is John Williams. Williams has created some of the most memorable movie music. Ones like the classic Jaws theme or the Star Wars films, or even the Jurassic Park theme just to name a few (Crespo). Making a score theme that is memorable is what can make movies long lasting and watched for generations to come. Another very important example war made by the composer Ennio Morricone. Morricone created one of the most iconic scores ever for the western movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Crespo). It has now pretty much connected with every other western movie