Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017) Martin McDonagh Drama film
- The start film score is Thomas Moore’s Last rose of summer. The peaceful film score lay the foundation of an elegiac story. Especially, The image of three billboards standing a long time at prairie looks desolation. This film score also plays when Mildred goes to burn the police station. It highlighted the peace before the misfortune.
- When the mother and her son talk about the death of Angle, the silence is just perfect. It makes audiences think and feel the tension between them.
- Moreover, there is a comparison between the flashback and the present. For the flashback, the is a squabble with high volume. For the present, it is a slow sad film score.
- Mildred Goes To War is the exciting BGM for Mildred, especially when she is going to fight for her(daughter) rights. For instance, the film score plays when she first goes to advertising company to against policy station. Another example is that she goes to police station to ask the equal rights for her friend along with the film score. It sounds like the West American countryside style. It explores the firm belief and fearless of Mildred. Every time Mildred goes to fight for her right and find the truth for her daughter, the film score is exciting.
(Figure 2: The screenshot of the film called Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, source by Zhen) - It is the type of normal movies, dialogue without film score. The sounds and images are daily. However, when the director mixed the normal things together, audiences can feel the meaning and emotion of scenes and in the movie.
- Film scores in this film have been played several times in various scenes. It constructs and reinforces atmosphere for different plots, scenes, and dialogues.
(Figure 3: The screenshot of the film called Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, source by Zhen) - There are also some scenes with low volume background sound called Muzak to explore the environment, such as bar and grass plot. A large number of countryside film scores to show the story happens in a small town rather than a fancy city.
Reference:
LiBiaobiao 2018, How to interpret the essence of the drama of “Three Billboards” with a soundtrack?, Baidu, viewed 23 September 2018, < https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=9a720ebdb1133bc5226a5a24&fromLemmaModule=pcTopicList&fromTopicId=b7f93dd6bab5edd7aa3eaf28 >.