The Dark Knight (Limited Edition)
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Composer: Hans ZimmerComposer: James Newton Howard
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Limited Edition, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Music Label: Warner Bros.
Soundtracks:
- Why So Serious?
- I'm Not A Hero
- Harvey Two-Face
- Aggressive Expansion
- Always A Catch
- Blood On My Hands
- A Little Push
- Like A Dog Chasing Cars
- I Am The Batman
- And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad
- Agent Of Chaos
- Introduce A Little Anarchy
- Watch The World Burn
- A Dark Knight
Music reviews of The Dark Knight (Limited Edition)
Music Review: Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard Return With A Superb And More Grounded Score
Rating: 5 Stars
The score for The Dark Knight is in one word, incredible. Zimmer and Howard have crafted a complete soundscape for this character and the world he exists in. I love the original Batman Begins score to death and the only way that this score surpasses the previous one is that it feels more grounded. The characters and world are already established so the score has something to build off of.
The two-note motif has already become iconic and synonymous with Batman. With this score we get two new themes. The first one is the new motif for The Joker. It's only one note and Hans spent 3 months fine tuning it to become the perfect sound. The first track is pretty much all of The Joker's music. It's harsh, industrial and gritty and I love it. It works so well even if you are more of a traditional score fan and don't like it one cannot deny how well it works with the image.
James Newton Howard was in charge of Harvey Dent. This music had to represent a fallen idol; someone who was good but became corrupted. So tragic is a word that can be used to describe it. It's very emotional. It stands apart from the intense action music in the score and is really wonderful. The emotional arc of it takes you from light to dark, it's great scoring.
Fans of Hans Zimmer and/or James Newton Howard will be extremely pleased with this score (I very much am). Hans' structure and style is heard well throughout. The score pulses with intensity very much like the original. There is really NO downtime on this entire album. The music carries you every step of the way, the listen on its own is a journey in itself. Now and then you will hear the 1-note Joker theme pop up and it indeed can get your hairs standing on end. It absorbs you and assaults you while leaving you wanting more. Hans and James both share one thing in common in that they score everything for real, meaning they aren't treating this movie as a work of fiction. They are carefully crafting an emotional story arc and building an atmosphere for it to exist in. There is no grandiose and heroic theme. Everything stands on its own and is so much powerful for doing so. The Dark Knight will be one of if not the best score of the year and will be hard to beat in terms of scope and emotional complexity.
Description of The Dark Knight (Limited Edition)
The Dark Knight: Original MotionPicture Soundtrack returns with the
ASCAP winning composers from Batman
Begins Academy Award winner Hans
Zimmer and seven-time Oscar nominee
James Newton Howard for a powerful
orchestral score.
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