Zardoz Who?
Nov. 30th, 2015 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyIt's been quite a long time, but I mentioned before how much I love the poignancy and "slow passage of time" feeling that I get listening to Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd Movement, Allegretto.
I'm actually quite surprised that of all the reviews, articles, forums, and even YouTube vids I've seen and read regarding the latest Doctor Who episode (Heaven Sent), I've only found two commenters on one video who at least give a nod to Beethoven's 7th.
Did everyone forget the tie in of Beethoven's 5th being mentioned during the Boostrap Paradox monologue back at the beginning of the Before the Flood episode?
I should think Beethoven is owed a little more than such a slight nod by the masses for his contribution to this episode's score.
"Shades of Beethoven in this"
"Parts of this remind me of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony."
I'm sorry, but the first few notes of it playing in the episode didn't just "remind me" of Betthoven's 7th. It IS Betthoven's 7th remixed. I instantly thought of the "long haul" time frame the moment the music started playing. It became most obvious when he started thinking about
...about being in there for all eternity, when he dropped the soup spoon.
I'd never heard/read the Brothers Grimm tale, so I didn't get the bird reference until I looked it up after watching the episode (mostly because I had a hard time following what he was saying when telling the tale to the Veil - such a fun play on rhyming words), but I did instantly understand as he hit the wall the first time that it would not be the last. I understood it, not because I figured out the reincarnation a la The Prestige part yet, but because of the music. I already knew there was something about "this is going to take a LONG ASS TIME" being a part of this episode just because I knew that song.
When I mentioned it in the previous post I linked above, I referenced The Fall and Zardoz. In Zardoz, it make its appearance at the very end when time is sped-up-slowly to show what happens to the couple and their son, ending with some decaying bones (flash back to a sea of skulls in Doctor Who). In The Fall, it's played at the very beginning in which the audience is presented with the fall for which the movie is named, although in such very, very, VERY slow motion. In both cases, the time density of the movie had been altered to provide a differing perspective to the viewer, and Beethoven's 7th played a major role in that.
So now, whenever I hear Beethoven' 7th, I instantly start thinking of alternate perceptions of time and either things taking a long time or time getting compressed into a shorter period of time.
I'm also proud of something else I guessed early on: The first time the Doctor looked up and saw the labyrinthine castle moving like clockwork after telling his first truth, I stated out loud, "I bet he's inside the confession dial. After all, it's Timelord technology, so it must be bigger on the inside." My nephews didn't like me for predicting that.
Curse those clockwork people for always trying to kill the Doctor...
I'm actually quite surprised that of all the reviews, articles, forums, and even YouTube vids I've seen and read regarding the latest Doctor Who episode (Heaven Sent), I've only found two commenters on one video who at least give a nod to Beethoven's 7th.
Did everyone forget the tie in of Beethoven's 5th being mentioned during the Boostrap Paradox monologue back at the beginning of the Before the Flood episode?
I should think Beethoven is owed a little more than such a slight nod by the masses for his contribution to this episode's score.
"Shades of Beethoven in this"
"Parts of this remind me of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony."
I'm sorry, but the first few notes of it playing in the episode didn't just "remind me" of Betthoven's 7th. It IS Betthoven's 7th remixed. I instantly thought of the "long haul" time frame the moment the music started playing. It became most obvious when he started thinking about
...about being in there for all eternity, when he dropped the soup spoon.
I'd never heard/read the Brothers Grimm tale, so I didn't get the bird reference until I looked it up after watching the episode (mostly because I had a hard time following what he was saying when telling the tale to the Veil - such a fun play on rhyming words), but I did instantly understand as he hit the wall the first time that it would not be the last. I understood it, not because I figured out the reincarnation a la The Prestige part yet, but because of the music. I already knew there was something about "this is going to take a LONG ASS TIME" being a part of this episode just because I knew that song.
When I mentioned it in the previous post I linked above, I referenced The Fall and Zardoz. In Zardoz, it make its appearance at the very end when time is sped-up-slowly to show what happens to the couple and their son, ending with some decaying bones (flash back to a sea of skulls in Doctor Who). In The Fall, it's played at the very beginning in which the audience is presented with the fall for which the movie is named, although in such very, very, VERY slow motion. In both cases, the time density of the movie had been altered to provide a differing perspective to the viewer, and Beethoven's 7th played a major role in that.
So now, whenever I hear Beethoven' 7th, I instantly start thinking of alternate perceptions of time and either things taking a long time or time getting compressed into a shorter period of time.
I'm also proud of something else I guessed early on: The first time the Doctor looked up and saw the labyrinthine castle moving like clockwork after telling his first truth, I stated out loud, "I bet he's inside the confession dial. After all, it's Timelord technology, so it must be bigger on the inside." My nephews didn't like me for predicting that.
Curse those clockwork people for always trying to kill the Doctor...
