Composer Hans Zimmer reveals score for Christopher Nolan film originates from Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception's entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse's most famous songs.
Anyone who has seen Christopher Nolan's movie will recall Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, the song used to signal a "kick" to another reality. But Piaf's famous ballad does not just permeate Inception as a sample – it's in the soundtrack's DNA.
"Just for the game of it," Zimmer told the New York Times this week, "all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track." The clearest example is Inception's theme, which an enterprising YouTuber has already deciphered,...
Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception's entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse's most famous songs.
Anyone who has seen Christopher Nolan's movie will recall Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, the song used to signal a "kick" to another reality. But Piaf's famous ballad does not just permeate Inception as a sample – it's in the soundtrack's DNA.
"Just for the game of it," Zimmer told the New York Times this week, "all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track." The clearest example is Inception's theme, which an enterprising YouTuber has already deciphered,...
- 7/29/2010
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
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