[Thor Joachim Haga]

Leonard Rosenman and his regular use of the ‘pyramid’, for instance, is like his musical slang for vague drama occurring. Some people find its repetition to be really annoying, but if you take it as a holdover from his 12-tone schoolboy days with Schoenberg then you understand why he does it, why he thought it was personally interesting to include, and you can take it as an invitation to explore his influences a little deeper.

That’s the same way I feel about Horner’s danger motif. Ridiculed and disliked all over the place, but I’ve always found it a cute little “device” on an almost mythological level. In other words, the recognition of certain recurring suspense tropes in filmmaking, and a musical device to underline it. Very “meta”, but that’s why I dig it.