An Essay On The Movie Atonement

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Marlyn Escobar-Zamora
Music Film
Final essay
Atonement
Atonement is a 2007 British romantic drama war film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's 2001 novel. Dario Marianelli is an Italian music film composer, known for his frequent collaborations with director Joe Wright. This film is straightforward in stating the setting and time frame, this film was set to have been recorded in England in 1935. Marianelli, the composer in this film contains a unique technique were non diegetic and diegetic music can work together. He also demonstrates how mutual implications is so important and powerful. Marianelli was able to presenting two scenes of different characters that ideally take place at the same time by using mutual implication. …show more content…

Marianelli created a darkly romantic work that aches in sympathy with the story's mysterious ironies. The fact the both Cecilia and Robbie died and never go to be together is ironic since all this time you are thinking and imagine they are together. Until you get the interview with Briony and you get the actual truth.
A lot of the films music was with the use of a typewriter as a percussive instrument, the score is both a grand throwback to the music of the past as well as an exceptionally smart compositional take on the storytelling complexities of the film itself (1). The sound of the clicking typewriter had its own sound of rhythm.

In the interview Marianelli mentions the idea of the typewriter also came very early in the filmmaking, Joe was interested in finding ways to breach the divide between the writer outside the film and the one inside. This idea affected several scenes, where the "outside" score merges with sounds coming from the inside of the movie (1). This was a great idea that really stood out to me. I found it very clever how the diegetic music would slowly turn into non diegetic by simply adding more layer of music on top of the baseline that was

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