In a world where the monsters are scared of human children, “Monsters, Inc” tells the story of Sulley and Mike, the lead scarers of Monsters Inc-a company that harvest a child’s scream to produce power, and their adventure to return Boo, an 8 year old girl that wandered into the monster world, back through her door. However, during their adventure, they uncover a conspiracy being hatched by Monsters Inc’s chairman, Henry J. Waternoose III, along with our protagonist’s arch enemy Randall, to use a torturing machine to forcefully kidnap then extract the children’s scream (Docter et al.).
III. Overview of the Score
The score composed by Randy Newman is completely original, and he utilised a mix variety of a small band and orchestras to further …show more content…
However, there is certain scenes where the movie takes the audience to iconic locations. For example, at 01:09:20 our protagonist went through a door to Hawaii, we can relate to the scene because the music accompanying is a ukulele and an ethnic Hawaiian rhythm. Furthermore, at 1:10:07 they stumbled into France and we could tell because a Paris-esque café music was playing in the background. These are all examples of Newman utilising ethnic music to incorporate it with the different realistic settings of the movie. Source music was used in the ‘Japanese’ restaurant at 00:25:33 to further emulate the cultural setting that Mike and his girlfriend was in. The scene and the music perfectly paralleled the Japanese restaurants we have here in North America where they play cultural ethnic music while you are served your meal. There were no evident leitmotifs that could be identified in the movie, however, Newman used various themes to portray different scenes. For example, at 00:39:03 when Randall comes out, his darker theme were played alongside to immediately make him the antagonist. Furthermore, at 00:33:41 Newman used Boo and Sulley’s theme to represent the bonding moments between our two protagonists. An example of a stinger when Randall suddenly kicked Sulley at 01:11:39, it was created by cellos playing a low note suddenly. Furthermore, there was a use of Mickey-Mousing when Boo was hitting Randall with a baseball bat at 01:12:19, the effect was created by percussion instruments. The music was predictable since it was a children’s film, however, it was also innovative since the music remained timeless years after its initial release (Docter et
III. Overview of the Score
The score composed by Randy Newman is completely original, and he utilised a mix variety of a small band and orchestras to further …show more content…
However, there is certain scenes where the movie takes the audience to iconic locations. For example, at 01:09:20 our protagonist went through a door to Hawaii, we can relate to the scene because the music accompanying is a ukulele and an ethnic Hawaiian rhythm. Furthermore, at 1:10:07 they stumbled into France and we could tell because a Paris-esque café music was playing in the background. These are all examples of Newman utilising ethnic music to incorporate it with the different realistic settings of the movie. Source music was used in the ‘Japanese’ restaurant at 00:25:33 to further emulate the cultural setting that Mike and his girlfriend was in. The scene and the music perfectly paralleled the Japanese restaurants we have here in North America where they play cultural ethnic music while you are served your meal. There were no evident leitmotifs that could be identified in the movie, however, Newman used various themes to portray different scenes. For example, at 00:39:03 when Randall comes out, his darker theme were played alongside to immediately make him the antagonist. Furthermore, at 00:33:41 Newman used Boo and Sulley’s theme to represent the bonding moments between our two protagonists. An example of a stinger when Randall suddenly kicked Sulley at 01:11:39, it was created by cellos playing a low note suddenly. Furthermore, there was a use of Mickey-Mousing when Boo was hitting Randall with a baseball bat at 01:12:19, the effect was created by percussion instruments. The music was predictable since it was a children’s film, however, it was also innovative since the music remained timeless years after its initial release (Docter et