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/shrug
nope, sorry.
I actually disliked his score to The 5th Element.
but to be fair he writes in a style that just doesn't appeal to me. I find nothing original about it. The whole "world music" filmscore thing is getting tired, in my opinion.
but, this IS just my opinion.
I'll take James Newton Howard over Serra any day.
Serra's scores, to me, are very much "underscore". So they sometimes work in the film for me, but only really, the same way the sound engineer's work might work: as background noise. When his music comes to the fore, I find it mostly quite forgettable, and quite often rather inappropriate.
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"Those that know, do;
Those that understand, teach."
-Aristotle-
"toute audace engendrée par l'ignorance cesse d'être une audace et devient une maladresse"
-Debussy-
In musical criticism, when issues of craft and technical consideration are set aside, what remains is more subjective. However, until technical issues are dealt with, the subjective portion bears considerably less weight.
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