{"id":14026,"date":"2012-01-15T21:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:51:57","slug":"jaws-vertigo-spielberg-hitchcock-herrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/15\/jaws-vertigo-spielberg-hitchcock-herrmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaws Vertigoed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indiewire<\/a> have recently been running a mash-up contest<\/a> in light of the recent story<\/a> about The Artist<\/a> using music<\/a> from Vertigo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you missed the story, Kim Novak recently took out an ad in Variety<\/a>\u00a0to complain about the use of some of Bernard Herrmann’s\u00a0score<\/a> in Michel Hazanavicius\u2019s\u00a0tribute to the silent era.<\/p>\n

Press Play<\/a> then decided to see how it sounded against other film sequences, so they staged a contest<\/a> called ‘Vertigoed’ with the following rules:<\/p>\n

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  1. Take the same Herrmann cue — “Scene D’Amour,” used in this memorable moment from Vertigo — and match it with a clip from any film. (You can nick the three-minute section from one of Kevin’s mash-ups if it makes things easier.) Is there any clip, no matter how silly, nonsensical, goofy or foul, that the score to Vertigo can’t ennoble? Let’s find out!<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Although you can use any portion of “Scene D’Amour” as your soundtrack, the movie clip that you pair it with cannot have ANY edits; it must play straight through over the Herrmann music. This is an exercise in juxtaposition and timing. If you slice and dice the film clip to make things “work,” it’s cheating. MONTAGES WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Upload the result to YouTube, Vimeo, blipTV or wherever, email the link to pressplayvideoblog@gmail.com along with your name, and we’ll add your mash-up to this Index page.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Given that they have recently been running an excellent video series on Steven Spielberg<\/a>, the sequence that immediately popped into my head was this one<\/a>\u00a0from Jaws (1975).<\/p>\n