I love Michelle for lots of reasons. One is that she wanted to watch Jurassic Park for our five year anniversary. She likes Independence Day and Groundhog's Day and the other night she let us watch an installment of 2001: A Space Odyssey. We watched it on our computer on Netflix. The movie opens with a group of monkeys surviving in an area that looks a lot like rural Utah. For the first fifteen to twenty minutes there is no dialogue, just classical/choral music. Watching it this time, however, I noticed something different about the music. It was orchestral and choral, but I recognized it from somewhere else too. Enchanted. Michelle and I commented on it at the same time. We wondered if Patrick Demsey and his crew had ripped off their soundtrack. As we kept watching, I wondered how I had never noticed the 2001 soundtrack being so vivacious. As the monkey clan approached the monolith an acoustic guitar suddenly kicked in. I knew that that hadn't been there before. I checked the computer and realized that iTunes had been playing the Enchanted overture (12 minutes long) during the movie. We had a good laugh.
I think I actually preferred the opening with the Enchanted soundtrack. I guess that probably borders on blasphemy, but a lot of people said that 2001: A Space Odyssey was blasphemous too.
2 comments:
Now I'll have to try it. You've intrigued me.
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