TRACK #4 “The Raid” (2:50) Film: THE INFORMANT! (2009)
Track #4 “The Raid” – The Informant! (Film, 2009) – The Music of Marvin Hamlisch.
“Fifteen minutes into watching The Informant!, I was unexpectedly hooked on Marvin Hamlisch’s sound — a fabulous, balanced mix of unabashedly ’70s instruments, melodies, beats and flourishes, with a touch of irony and modern grace for present-day audiences. Yeah, I liked it a lot. – M.M.B”
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THE INFORMANT! FILM (2009) — BUY MUSIC AT AMAZON. The Music of Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch’s words about his musical score for The Steven Soderberg movie The Informant! (Soderbergh was inspired by Hamlisch’s score for Woody Allen’s Bananas.) To come up with the movie’s signature riff, he had to get inside the mind of the main character, a corporate whistleblower (played by Matt Damon) with bipolar disorder.
I realized that I had to approach the score from the point of view of the main character ‑the way the main character would be thinking, and it turns out that he was just having the best time of his life, and the FBI were nuts. Then the jaunty melody just comes to you.” – Marvin Hamlisch
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ABOUT THE FILM THE INFORMANT!
The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical-comedy-crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. Music by Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012)
It depicts Whitacre’s involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. Read more…
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