I’ve always said that any movie can be made 100 times better with the right music. Some movies there’s simply no hope for but there are other movies that are made infinitely better by the correct usage of music. The same goes for television shows. Imagine how Shawshank Redemption would have been had Thomas Newman not scored that movie? Think about how different it would have felt. What if John Williams never scored Jaws? What would we have had?
Like I said, some movies and shows are just poorly acted and directed so there’s zero hope. But it’s my contention that a mediocre body of work can be made extremely good by the right accompanying sounds. Speaking of which, if there’s one show on television that knows exactly how to use music, it’s Fargo. P.S. I’m going to make this a running segment – “perfect uses of music in movies and TV.”
Anyway for our first excellent use of music in show, let’s go with the opening scene of Fargo Season 2, episode 7 where they used Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath.” The song starts at around the :50 second mark.
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