They are both ways to tell you how you should feel about what is happening onscreen instead of letting the movie/show itself do so
Next you’re going to tell me how the actors faces look is supposed to tell me how to feel.
You just don’t get it do you??? The ONLY thing that can carry the movie is the script and exposition through dialogue!!! Everything else is a sin against the purity of the cinematic art form!!! /s
Maybe, but at least the movie’s action doesn’t come to a complete halt for just the Score to play.
Unless it’s a musical… and this is why I hate musicals…
But… The music IS the action in Musicals, that’s why they’re called Musicals…
(Let’s ignore the Disney Musicals, those are bad Musicals in form)
By that logic, characters’ clothing or shot background are ways to tell you how you should feel. Good soundtrack is a part of the media, not a forced reaction.
No, what about in horror films when the tension rises, the soundtrack and effects sometimes give the ‘surprise’ away in suspenseful screens. Less about how it feels and more about predictability. The best ones have very little backing and only subtle sound effects until something is actually happening.
Which is why I specified good soundtrack, not the concept of it in general. Visuals can also give away plot twists, when done wrong.
