[Nick Zwar]

Not so much a score per se, but I really disliked Terrence Malick’s use of music in A NEW WORLD, that was all over the place… snippets of Wagner, Mozart and Horner, that were like oil and water, they neither mixed, not did they contrast with each other, not sure what Malick wanted to accomplish or say with that, worse, I didn’t even know if he wanted to say anything at all with that, so I found the music in that film both distracting and annoying. (Even though I love all the music used in that movie, just not how it was used in the movie.) I remember I especially disliked how Mozart was used, constantly more or less the same snippet from the piano concerto repeated instead of actually PLAYING the piece, at least the movement, that was really, really annoying. I thought while I was watching this “I dare you to do that one more time”, and there it was…