Gone Girl (soundtrack)
Gone Girl | ||||
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Released | September 30, 2014[1] | |||
Recorded | 2014 | |||
Genre | Dark ambient[2] | |||
Length | 86:42 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross chronology | ||||
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Gone Girl is the score album for David Fincher's 2014 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The album was released on September 30, 2014, through Columbia Records.[3] It marks as third time that Reznor and Ross have collaborated with Fincher, following 2010's Oscar-winning The Social Network and 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.[4] The soundtrack was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media,[5] and also for the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.[6]
Background and development
On January 21, 2014, Trent Reznor announced that he and Atticus Ross would provide the score,[7] marking their third collaboration with David Fincher, following The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Reznor revealed that the tonal inspiration for Gone Girl came from an unsettling experience of Fincher at the chiropractor's place and the music heard was "inauthentically trying to make him feel alright", and thus, had become a metaphor for the film score. The soundtrack's music mixes soothing sounds with staccato electronic noises.[8]
Reznor had anticipated being able to focus intently on the Gone Girl soundtrack, but it turned out to overlap with a year-long tour with Nine Inch Nails.[8] During multiple two-week breaks in his tour, Reznor and Ross would create musical soundscapes that both matched the scenes in the script as well as what Fincher exactly wanted. According to them, the track "Sugar Storm" from the soundtrack exemplifies a sound that begins with soothing, new-age massage therapy music, where the composers gradually introduce strange staccato noises that recall an old dial-up modem.
In the same interview to USA Today Reznor stated, "I love the sounds in David Lynch movies, the kind that make you lean forward in your seat and tense up." The staccato noise introduction was justified by him stating that if placing background of a song a choir of screams that creep slowly into one's head, he could create a feeling. Further, Reznor and Ross used traditional instruments like guitars and keyboard, as well as handmade gear. They created a device that when tapped made a stuttering beat sounds.[8] Reznor was quoted saying, "So when you use that as a foundation for a track that has a sexy background, the core is inherently broken, and you sense that."[8]
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Reznor called "The Way He Looks at Me" as one of his favorite tracks on the album. He added that when he and Ross were thinking about usages in compositions, it all began from hints given by Fincher. They used customized instruments like "homemade boxes that had small mics fit in it".[9] He said that they captured guitar strings loops by hitting it and developing a repeating pattern deliberately making it uneven. Thus, the foreground created was a kind of unease justified when there were moments of tension in the film. So instead of it naturally building, they compared the loop sounds to foot's dragging or something being stuck.[9]
Marketing
In the case of Gone Girl, it felt organic-y to start. As we started working on it, it felt like it could use the idea of orchestra, so we ended up using an orchestra for bits of it to layer in with what we've done, which was an interesting process.[10]
Trent Reznor on working with the live orchestras for first time for the score
In April 2014, a website titled "amazingamy.com" was set up to promote the film.[11] The website featured score but was touted to be composed by Reznor and Ross. In July 2014, the website "gonegirlmovie.com" was updated to also have background music similar to the first audio but was titled "Echoes". A trailer was released on July 7, 2014 which featured both the website based music and new music. On 20 September 2014, "gonegirl.com" was updated with new music titled "Mixdown", a megamix of songs from the soundtrack album. Later, NIN[10] updating a splash screen introducing the score, the album artwork and the track "The Way He Looks At Me" running behind the frame.[12]
Critical response
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Consequence of Sound | B+[2] |
Drowned in Sound | 8/10[15] |
NME | 8/10[16] |
The soundtrack has been met with critical acclaim by critics, with an average rating of 84 out of 100 based on five reviews on Metacritic.[13]
Writing for The New Yorker,
"Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross complement the film’s jagged, uncertain tone with a suitably downbeat electronic score", such was stated by Marc Savlov, writing for
Much less enthusiastic was Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK, member of the International Film Music Critics Association, who wrote of the score: "The lack of any emotional development beyond the general mood of uneasiness makes the film a one-note auditory bore. The music stops us from feeling any of the nuance or subtlety the acting or writing may have otherwise provided, because it never alters its disposition. (...) As an artist with Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor was genuinely groundbreaking. However, I just don’t buy into all the hype about his film music career. I read reviews from professional critics in well-respected music magazines, and they all laud him as though he is the individual savior of the art, someone who is finally writing the sort of edgy, avant-garde film music we have all needed all these years, but were too stupid to realize. I just don’t buy it. (...) As an album of ambient electronica [Gone Girl] may be appealing to those who have an affinity for that sort of music. However, as actual film music, it’s as much as a failure as its two predecessors."[32]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "What Have We Done to Each Other?" | 2:30 |
2. | "Sugar Storm" | 2:53 |
3. | "Empty Places" | 2:46 |
4. | "With Suspicion" | 3:16 |
5. | "Just Like You" | 4:11 |
6. | "Appearances" | 2:52 |
7. | "Clue One" | 1:30 |
8. | "Clue Two" | 5:10 |
9. | "Background Noise" | 3:09 |
10. | "Procedural" | 4:30 |
11. | "Something Disposable" | 4:28 |
12. | "Like Home" | 3:39 |
13. | "Empty Places (Reprise)" | 2:20 |
14. | "The Way He Looks at Me" | 3:27 |
15. | "Technically, Missing" | 6:43 |
16. | "Secrets" | 3:08 |
17. | "Perpetual" | 4:00 |
18. | "Strange Activities" | 2:37 |
19. | "Still Gone" | 2:47 |
20. | "A Reflection" | 1:46 |
21. | "Consummation" | 4:09 |
22. | "Sugar Storm (Reprise)" | 0:49 |
23. | "What Will We Do?" | 3:05 |
24. | "At Risk" | 11:05 |
Total length: | 86:42 |
Accolades
List of awards and nominations | |||||
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Award | Date of Ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
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January 15, 2015 | Best Score
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | Nominated | [33] |
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | December 19, 2014 | Runner-up | [34] | ||
Golden Globe Awards | January 11, 2015 | Nominated | [6] | ||
Grammy Awards | February 8, 2015 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | [5] | |
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | December 16, 2014 | Best Score | Nominated | [35] | |
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
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December 15, 2014 | Nominated | [36] | ||
Satellite Awards | February 15, 2015 | Best Original Score | Nominated | [37] | |
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards
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December 15, 2014 | Best Score | Nominated | [38] | |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
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December 8, 2014 | Original Score | Nominated | [39] [40] |
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External links
- Official website
- Marketing website
- Gone Girl (soundtrack) at the Internet Movie Database