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Aristus

(68,327 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 12:28 PM Aug 2014

Annoying film cliche: only evil people listen to classical music.

Cross-posted in the Lounge.

Just once, I'd love to see a film protagonist listen to classical music and or opera with knowledge and enjoyment. But in films where someone is listening to classical music, they are almost always rubbing their hands in glee at some evil deed they have just committed, or are about to commit, and the music offers a dramatic counterpoint to the scene.

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Annoying film cliche: only evil people listen to classical music. (Original Post) Aristus Aug 2014 OP
... Scuba Aug 2014 #1
Yeah, pretty much the definition of evil right there. Aristus Aug 2014 #2
Wait a minute - Evil? yallerdawg Aug 2014 #3
Vivaldi Concerto in G - really 'rocked' JustAnotherGen Aug 2014 #4
My favorite British detective, Inspector Morse, narnian60 Aug 2014 #5
And the Swedish "Wallender" played opera often. longship Sep 2014 #6

Aristus

(68,327 posts)
2. Yeah, pretty much the definition of evil right there.
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 12:55 PM
Aug 2014

Leveling a village in order to have a decent place to surf.

I know the ostensible reason was to get Willard's PBY into the Nung River past the hot village, but that consideration was secondary in Kilgore's mind.

Just evil...

JustAnotherGen

(33,539 posts)
4. Vivaldi Concerto in G - really 'rocked'
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 02:19 PM
Aug 2014

In the 2006 Marie Antoinette though - it was so joyful and fun to watch her trying not to laugh at the absurdity of the French Court.



And Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major was used beautifully in Out of Africa.

longship

(40,416 posts)
6. And the Swedish "Wallender" played opera often.
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:35 AM
Sep 2014
Krister Henriksson was the best actor to play this gritty, Swedish detective. His series was the best of the three, two Swedish, and one BBC with Kenneth Branaugh.

Wallender

BTW, he's a good guy.
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