JD: On the plaza, the attitude of the music is up, the tempo is bright, the performances are fun. As you’re going through scene five for example and you get hit by a broom and the vehicle gets swapped around and we end up under the oven, our job with the music is to sort of create tension and to build up to that moment and to get out of the way to let the sound and special effects take over. Sometimes there are other moments that are more important. We also have to take into account storytelling and dialogue. You don’t have that kind of time in the attraction. That theme is about 45 to 50 seconds long.
Let’s take the beautiful main theme “Ratatouille”. But we rearranged and rerecorded all of it because the needs of an attraction are so specific. So, yes, the attraction only features music from the film. If you go back to the “Ball-Musette”, that movement of the late nineteenth century, there were actually different dances that got adapted in that musical style. Because French music has been influenced, just like American music, by a lot of different musical cultures from around the world. He and the director Brad Bird didn’t want to be so strict and use only French music. But for Michael, it wasn’t that farfetched.
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And it’s sort of your kiss goodbye out of the attraction.Ī lot of people think it’s weird that the soundtrack of the movie features a tango. The tango features castanets, lots of Latin feel and percussion. You come out of the last scene, you’re kind of spinning around and dancing and you’re getting ready to leave and we said we want something upbeat to get them going. For example, the soundtrack features a tango which is a perfect fit for the attraction’s exit. So we thought, was it right for us to introduce any new themes? Michael looked at it, he and I sat down and we found themes from the movie to fit every scene of the attraction. JD: Michael wanted to evoke the memories of the story by drawing music from the film. DD: Does the attraction only feature music from the film or did you write new themes as well?