Score From ‘Brazil’ Wildly Popular, For Some Reason

Writing by Chris on Tuesday, 28 of August , 2007 at 2:19 pm

To be fare, it is a good song.

Once in a while, every advertising firm and trailer house in the country decides to license the exact same song at the exact same time. Usually, it’s something innocuous and cheerful (in this world, Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” is the Platonic Ideal). But this summer — possibly to acknowledge that we’re currently living in a dystopia — everyone seems to have chosen something slightly less pleasant: Michael Kamen’s score for Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film Brazil, because nothing says “animated children’s film” quite like “negative Utopia.”

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/score_from_brazil_wildly_popular.html

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