Music in Movies

                The mood that music can set in a film can be very powerful and usually is. However what are these moods that music can set? Well music (especially in films) powerfully sets moods such as happiness/joy, fear/terror, and calmness/serenity. A few films that we have watched in our Read the Movies class are Ten Things I Hate About You, Empire Records, and Here Comes the Boom. These films do an excellent job of setting a mood for its viewers. So I’m starting off with Ten Things I Hate About You, and this film uses music to not only set the mood, but to also put you in the shoes of the actors that are in the scene. Ten Things I Hate About You uses music to strongly encourage feelings for the viewer, and does this especially in scenes of anger or frustration. Now as for Empire Records, there was music all throughout this film and not just because it was a movie that was about music, but because they used music to set the mood. In this film, they used music to set moods like excitement and happiness, but they also use music to set other moods too. Last but not least we have Here Comes the Boom which is a film that is titled after the main song in the movie (“Here Comes the Boom”) that is known for setting a specific mood. That specific mood is energy/aggression. So overall, music has a great impact in setting moods in films and in life in general.