Arti musices, Vol. 41 No. 1, 2010.
Stručni rad
Alfi Kabiljo's International Experience: the Film Music of Sky Bandits [a.k.a. Gunbus] and the Final Instinct [a.k.a. Scissors]
Irena Paulus
orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-2352
; Umjetnička škola Franje Lučića, Velika Gorica, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Alfi Kabiljo is best known as the author of the first Croatian musicals, but he has also written music for films. While his work for Croatian films is more or less known, his scores for foreign films are not so familiar in Croatia. Namely, during the 1980s and 1990s, Kabiljo wrote music for eight foreign films. The essay analyses two films from that part of his rich opus: Sky Bandits (entitled Gunbus for American distribution), which was made in 1986 by director Zoran Perišić (who is known as the creator of the visual effects for the film Superman), and Scissors (that is: The Final Instinct for American viewers), made in 1991 by Frank de Felitta. As an amateurish work, Gunbus’s story wasn’t very inspiring, but Kabiljo, nevertheless, created a Hollywood-sounding score that evoked the feeling of the Wild West. This was a rare example of music that obviously surpassed the film it was written for in quality, creativity and artistic value.
Scissors presented the composer with a heavy psychological and somewhat chaotic story. He decided to place at the centre of his score a waltz for dolls, hurdy-gurdy music of sorts, in which he used bitonality. The bitonality was the point that could have led both in the direction of tonality and in the direction of atonality. Kabiljo decided to use both to emphasize the psychological but also the horror-like side of the unusual story.
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14.6.2010.
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