This is most probably why I bought myself an iPod while I was still in London. The beauty of the public transport system over there is that it allows you to live your life to your own soundtrack without having to concentrate on driving a car (i.e. reality interfering).
Wait, I'm actually blogging for a completely different reason. I always read up on the movies or shows I'm watching, and I've always found www.wikipedia.org a good source of information when it comes to bullet pointed tidbits regarding my latest story-watching expedition.
Take the show 24 for instance (Producer: Sean Callery). It won a couple of awards for its soundtrack, so this fact prompted me to consciously listen whenever I was watching my daily 6 episodes. It's so subtle, but so awesome.
Prisonbreak (Composer: Ramin Djawadi), in my opinion, has the most gripping theme song of any show I've ever seen. The music quickens your heartbeat and causes shallow, short gasps of anticipated breath. Perfect musical casting.
And then there's the Bourne Trilogy (Composer: John Powell). I love exploring the bonus material on discs (which is why I'll ALWAYS buy the boxsets of movies and TV shows); so yesterday I was watching an interview with the composer of the Bourne Soundtrack in which he briefly explains his motivation behind some of the themes he had chosen for the movies. That's when I realized, as a viewer I most definitely don't analyse the soundtrack, BUT it makes an enormous difference to my reaction and emotional connection to the movie. Duh! I hear you say, but you'll be surprised how many people do not realize how important the perfect music is to a scene.
I could obviously list numerous movie soundtracks that impacted me: Pirates of the Carribean (Composer: Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt), Gladiator (Composer: Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt), Avatar (Composer: James Horner),The Village (Composer: James Newton Howard) to name but a few. And I promise you you'll recognize some of these names, because they're almost as famous as the leading stars in the movies.
Point is, don't ever underestimate a movie or TV soundtrack. Those composers are geniuses.
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