One of the most memorable moviegoing experiences I've ever had was seeing Interstellar for the first time. Seeing it 10 years later in IMAX was wild. 11/10 highly recommend. And yeah, like I mention in the video, I've decided to just keep the price of the 8-course bundle where it is until the end of the year. Your support has been incredible and I can't thank you enough. I've just been thinking about the fact that it's been a sketchy time this year for many economically, and that sometimes means foregoing "life enrichment" things like learning the piano. If keeping this promo running a bit longer this year helps to make it more practical for even just one person to finally start learning, that's worth it to me. Check it out here shop.betterpiano.com but either way, thanks for being here. You're the best.
Hey, just a heads up, I have a Silent Night remix available on Bandcamp and will be available everywhere else by midnight EST on Christmas Day. I think you’ll have a lot of fun dissecting it 😉😅
I had no idea they were bringing this back to theaters until I saw this video. Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time and so I just bought tickets for my family to see it tomorrow! Thank you so much for making this and making me aware of this returning to IMAX. I never got to see it in theaters, let alone IMAX. To say we are all excited is an understatement. Thank you for help create a new core memory for our family! Love you
Don't forget c is the constant for the speed of light. What an epic choice! Travelling into a black hole ending up at the speed of light and playing the music in the key of C... Just wonderful.
i think my favorite theme from the movie is “no time for caution” i think it’s from the docking scene but the way the organ kicks in just hits every time
Sitting in the first few rows in IMAX and seeing the look in my daughter's eyes, both hands covering her mouth, in absolute awe as the wave is revealed while 'Mountains' is blasting was such a visceral experience. In contrast to the launch scene where we are met with the silence of space, only hearing our own breathing. The silence itself also plays a character. It truly gives you the experience of being in the vacuum of space, placing you right next to the crew. Every second of this movie is such an emotional experience. ❤
I agree so much, one of the most impactful moment for me is the first seconds in space with the silence. Ironically one of the best part of the soundtrack for me.
8:55 One thing I noticed here, is I think Hans is foreshadowing Cooper's descent into the Black Hole. The first time we hear this resolution is when He leaves Murph behind. Then next time we here is only moments before Cooper is left behind. It's almost like double foreshadowing: The first time is to establish the resolution of that chord progression, with Cooper thinking, or hoping, that Murph would be coming along for the ride, and then the realization that she isn't. This then parallels Brandt in that she thought all was well and that they would both make it out of the black holes gravity. Only this time the resolution foreshadows the realization that something was left behind, rather than coincide with it.
And even more than that, the first time is when he leaves Murph behind, and this time, the second time, is when he is about to go see her again, although he doesn't know that. 😅
That whole scene is by far my favorite scene in any movie. The emotional build up with Zimmer's score... I can't not tear up. The feeling of success that builds as they slowly creep away from Gargantua, the subtle hint when TARS ejects his ranger, then that build up of quiet as Coop explains about leaving something behind. THEN you get Coop "Detaching" and it crescendo's showing Brand realizing what Coop's plan was... 😭😭😭. I need to find my box of Kleenex, I'm not crying, you are!
2050 is the same distance as 2000 We're closer to 2100 than to WW2 1990 is further away from now than 2060 If The Dark Knight was a kid, it could have a driver's license. Batman Begins can drink in Canada, Inception is in high school.
One of my favorite movies and soundtracks of all time. That's scene of him driving away , leaving his daughter behind Is one of the most emotional combinations of motion picture and music ever made. And I agree the music of 2001a space odyssey had a huge impact on zimmer for this movie.
The emotion that this theme evokes makes me want to cry every time I hear it 😭🤍 I've loved the Interstellar soundtrack since the moment I first heard it. I can't wait to hear this live at the Hans Zimmer show. Thank you for covering Interstellar again!!!
I heard Hans Zimmer play this live with his whole orchestra at a concert a few months back. It was just unbelievable. Interstellar might be my favorite soundtrack of all time
In some sense the harmonies in this (and others as well) theme reminds me of the progressions Vangelis used quite often. I can literally hear it there. Which reminds me again - how is this possible you have never "deconstructed" any piece by Vangelis. And there are quite many I think you'd enjoy :)
This is my favorite part of the movie because of this very theme. I was lucky enough to be able to witness Hans Zimmer Live in Chicago and this was the main moment I was looking forward to. It was absolutely spectacular. His vocalist, Leah Zeger, hit nots I didn’t even know were possible. Hans is a true mastermind.
This is absolutely nuts. Just last week I watched your Interstellar video, and was crying out for analysis of the crescendo in 'Detach'. Absolutely my favourite ever Zimmer moment - and the fact that it's never repeated elsewhere in the score is genius. It drives home the pivotal importance of the moment - everything is building up to this point, and the emotion of the scene is rammed home on a grand scale. It's the perfect blend of cinematography and scoring - one of those epic, memorable points in cinema history. The only things that have hit me this hard in the past few years are the ending scenes of Nocturnal Animals, Hereditary and the re-entry scene in Gravity. Love this channel 😀
The brilliance of this theme is that it conveys a sense of urgency, but comes out on a positive note that things will work out for at least someone. Many similar situations in other movies would stretch the tension too much and the end on a downer like the ship going *boom*...
I just rewatched this movie 2 days ago on a decked out Klipsch/Denon surround system, and this exact part jumped out at me so hard. I definitely rewound it a few times. It gives me Liebstod from Tristan und Isolde climax vibes.
I just saw it as well a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I think that the section of "Detach" you're highlighting extends the theme of Murph and Cooper's that plays when he leaves her. It's like the resolution that the audience has been waiting for since the heartbreaking scene where they're separated. Cooper isn't leaving Murph this time, he's returning home, so Zimmer chose this moment to musically resolve their separation. Interstellar is such a brilliant story of love and connection between a father and his daughter. Their last meeting left me thinking about how I spend my time. Cooper can never get those years back and neither can we.
You highlighted my two favourite moments when it comes to the score. I remember afterwards everybody joking that "Hans Zimmer fell asleep on his organ," but in the theatre, that scene with Cooper driving away, checking one last time for Murph, the organ absolutely roaring, the countdown and the rocket engines, Murph missing her last chance to say goodbye... that's cinema hall of fame for me. The other is the "Detach" resolution like you've highlighted here. It just makes me want to weep. For a while, I would post on my Instagram story a clip of the song that was stuck in my head that night. I liked that it gave me the chance to showcase which 15 seconds of the song mean the most to me. One night, it was Detach. I showcased that resolution 12:19 because it's just too good. I'm really sad that no theatres in my area are playing the 10th anniversary screenings, because I really need to see it in IMAX again.
I too saw this in IMAX recently. Row D with the wall in front of you. Put your feet on that, and EVERYTHING is rumbling. Feels even more EPIC! And I too noticed so many more sounds and voice line that I never heard before. I've been to IMAX many times but this movie takes the full advantage of it's powers!
Hey Charles! Thank you so lot for all the videos you're making. It's helping me a lot for understanding music as a whole. Keep doing what you're doing - you're awesome!
I loved your discernment of the moment coop leaves- major then the three minors- and flys toward the event horizon - three minors then major. That hit me.
One of my favorite in the movie is "message from home", I can remind how it threw me right away in the vast and lonely outer space and in this ambiguous and mysterious adventure. Plus the noise of the rain and nature in contrast with the crew and the ship being already so far away from home and the vacuum of the outside of the ship. It's so calm and the shots are amazing in this scene. Crazy moment to me..
This was an awesome video. Thank you for breaking this down and connecting the scenes to the emotion that the score evokes. Film scoring is a seemingly difficult but wonderful thing!
i'm glad you emphasized how much he lands back on C major. i'm going to paraphrase from another great interstellar video so none of this is mine, but it talked about the music in a way that completely changed how I view a lot of the film. C major, most of us know it as the most basic key/chord we all learn when starting out on piano and a lot of other instruments. It's used in many iconic songs and almost plays into the fact that we know it feels like home. In the very beginning of the film when Cooper is waking up, a visceral C major stacked with organs and strings plays as he looks out to his cornfield, silhouetted. Telling us this is his home. This same snippet of soundtrack is played when Coop reunites with Murph at the end, among numerous other times in the film (like you mentioned when he's leaving home, when they first dock, when they perform the spinning dock, and of course when Cooper drops into the black hole). It's home. C major is home. Which is why it was absolutely brilliant to use it in this to signify comfort and safety. it's as though C major represents the human race's journey and comfort. Everything here was absolutely intentional.
the title says the theme you forgot about, but that theme is actually the theme i remember the most from the whole movie! Especcially the shift to major really hit me, like "how can a major progression sound so heartbreaking and intense??"
Charles, remember when Nolan asked Zimmer to write a small piece for him with no context except it's a love letter from a dad to his daughter? I think this is actually that piece. They never came out saying what theme Zimmer came up with. But you're so right that this is the only time it's played. You found it!
Nolan actually told him it was from a father to his son, even though in the film it's actually about a father and his daughter. I thought this was because he only has a son, but he actually has daughters as well, so an interesting choice from Nolan there.
The track is not this one it’s the ‘day one’ track, because he asked him to give him ‘one day’.Hense the name ‘day one’ on the album. You can hear it in the demo track he released for the soundtrack. There’s a version called ‘day one’ and another called ‘day one dark’ in the demo. You can hear how it evolved to the finished product heard in the film, pretty fun
Thank you very much for covering "Detach". It's the piece that made me seek out the movie and then soundtrack after and just captures the ominous close proximity of Gargantua so well just before they make their flight from it. The whole soundtrack is ladened with so many bits of music like this that get overshadowed by the main theme and manage to strike many different moods that you could be in :)
I was waiting for you to mention Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (which you did a great video on not long ago), since the chords and progressions, and lengthy tension away from a resolution, are so much a part of both scores! What a phenomenal film and score -- so glad you're still bringing the analysis and enthusiasm!
I love the switch to the major chords when he checks for Murph and when he detaches from Amelia’s craft… in both cases Cooper “had to leave something behind” and this was the point of no return Choosing the major chord gave the scenes this heavenly/heroic sound but still felt unsettling because we’re watching Cooper leave behind the most important people in his life knowing he will be totally alone
Charles, you made me cry all over again over this soundtrack. I agree when you suggest there are hints of strauss on that passage. Not only that, I would argue a bit of Debussy also! (Maybe even THE DIG, if we're sticking to space refferences!). Also the gangantua manouver and coop leaving/launching, we get all that agony and anxiety from the minor chords, reflecting the absolute tragedy/immensenesss/vulnerability/hopelessness from all that situation, and on a few, meager occasions theres that BRIEF major chord BLISS, when either coop searches for his daughter on the passenger seat, or when amelia speaks at the end of the manouver. Both there to reming us that despit all the darkness, love is there, our constant thru space and time. I love you all ❤❤❤
Interstellar is my favorite movie and I think this musical moment is so underrated! I think the very major-sounding melody when Cooper is detaching into the black hole adds to the bittersweet feeling of the moment - it’s sad, but the music is so happy sounding. Heart wrenching.
Interstellar is such a masterpiece. So happy to see new content about it! The combination of the visuals, the soundtrack and also the power of the sound with feeling the rumble in IMAX was just absolutely incredible. I hope I get to see it in IMAX again fairly soon
Thank you so much for covering this theme. I love your take and explanations on this one. It revives in a certain way my deep love for this movie and this soundtrack. I remember how I was strike when I saw it the first time in the theater with the immersion of the sound. Crazy.. one of the best experience I've had the chance to live. I hope to watch it again in a theater some day. Cheers 🐚
I've always considered this score to be a masterpiece from Hans Zimmer. I wholeheartedly agree, the theme you talk about here is just the epitome of what leaving something behind sounds like musically. My favorite has always been his use of tempo in the theme from Miller's Planet (the one with the huge waves). After watching the movie for the first time, I went back to check the tempo he used when they first notice that the "mountains" on Miller's planet were actually waves, and it was exactly 60 bpm, one second per beat. This to me seemed like the most fitting use of musical composition to really drive home the importance of the time they were using on Miller's planet, considering every hour was equivalent to 7 years on Earth. Absolutely incredible writing. Zimmer seems to have an uncanny ability to tell the story being displayed on screen with the music itself. Always brilliant.
These pieces are so fantastic, I've always prefereed them to the main theme thats so popular. That major resolution moment always gives me the feeling of going from the anticipation and anxiety of space travel to the existential pure wonder of it. Makes me cry every time.
I was just at dinner with a friend this evening and we were talking about how incredible "Detach" is! I'll send him a link to this video. Great work as usual
Love your channel, Charles and I can’t even play a note. 😂 “No Time For Caution“ is my favorite track from Interstellar. Love the scene, love the song.
There are so many different scenes in this movie that I adore for so many different reasons... but if I had to choose my absolute favourite moment from the film, it might be one close to the beginning, when the adventure's just begun. As Prof. Brandt recites Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, the music seems to hammer in this tremoring intensity. Brandt's voice, almost always stoic and calm, seems to gain a subtle power, like a spark has been lit in him, a desperate fury to sustain the future of life. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" he says, seems to beg, as the Endurance is dwarfed by a gorgeous shot of the Earth, a silent god suspended in the void. A sickly, dying god, a god we're now abandoning. It's here that the music, before now revelling in its intense complexity, is overpowered by the rising drone of that one chord, the space chord, screaming into the abyss like a siren, like the wailing of a species searching fruitlessly for the way forward. It's my absolute favourite scene in the movie. And that shot... that shot might actually be my favourite shot of all time.
The way I interpreted the major resolution in the first scene when he's driving away is that that was a fond memory for him, when she snuck away in the truck to help him find the coordinates.
The music in this part of the film is really something special, but my favorite theme would probably be "no time for caution", that organ hits so hard every time and gives me goosebumps
Charles! I'd love more advanced courses in your bundle! I already bought the discounted course deal and have gone through the majority of your courses. Very helpful! But some more advanced theory courses would be great!! ❤
I still listen to this soundtrack quite a lot. "Detach" I think is the name of this particular track. Love Hans Zimmer's stuff and really enjoyed this film too. "Stay" is quite similar and has same build up but prefer the ending of "Detach" i.e. C major, A minor, B flat etc.
@@MildSatire You are correct to point out my spelling mistake but you could maybe do with some lessons in grammar. Do you have anything positive to say about the actual content of the video?
12:00 From this point on, it’s so closely modelled on the latter part of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” it’s basically a somewhat simplified cover version.
Cornfield Chase, Mountains, Stay, and No Time for Caution are my favorite ones out of the entire soundtrack. Do you breakdown how movies are scored in terms of how to write with each part of an orchestra such as Strings, Brass, Woodwinds etc. If so, is it in your course bundle and do you cover how to turn a melody and chords into a full orchestral piece? I really like the content btw especially this one!
That big climax on Detach always reminds me of the ending of Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. But it's the final pipe organ chord of the spinning docking scene that slays me.
That is my favorite moment in the score as well but I really love the whole thing. The organ sound is beautiful and so atmospheric. It isn’t busy and bombastic like a lot of scores I enjoy. It feels like raw emotion expressed as sound. It works so well in the film. I wish I had gotten to an IMAX showing but I have a 4k UHD copy and a decent home theater setup. I’ve watched the movie many times.
I remember watching Interstellar in the cinema when it first came out and when I first heard the theme you're talking about at 4:44 I immediately thought of Sibelius Symphony No. 7. There's an epic stormy climactic section about half way through that symphony that features almost the same theme played by the brass. And it's also in the key of C. Wonder if Zimmer intentionally pinched that from Sibelius for this film or if it was subconscious. But there is definitely a striking resemblance. Film composer's pinch stuff from classical music all the time though. Bit's of the Gladiator score (The battle scene at the beginning of the film) sounds quite similar to "Mars, The Bringer of War" from The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst. And of course John Williams also used a ton of stuff from The Planets Suite for Star Wars.
Saw Interstellar for the first time during this 10 year anniversary rerelease. It is a beautiful movie with beautiful music. We are all more familiar with the main theme but that black hole theme is so beautiful.
I’ve been obsessed with this particular theme since it came out, and there’s a track on the extended edition called “Murph” that prolongs the mercurial build up for 9 solid minutes and then finally releases into the gorgeous resolution melody you’re talking about. And like the great dude he is, Hans gifts us by repeating the melody twice in all its magisterial glory. Have driven down the road way too fast listening to it many, many times 😅
Please do a video on Hansel’s Messiah in the spirit of Christmas. Also, I’ve always loved the use of organ to associate with space. The size of the instrument makes it feel so vast.
One of the most memorable moviegoing experiences I've ever had was seeing Interstellar for the first time. Seeing it 10 years later in IMAX was wild. 11/10 highly recommend. And yeah, like I mention in the video, I've decided to just keep the price of the 8-course bundle where it is until the end of the year. Your support has been incredible and I can't thank you enough. I've just been thinking about the fact that it's been a sketchy time this year for many economically, and that sometimes means foregoing "life enrichment" things like learning the piano. If keeping this promo running a bit longer this year helps to make it more practical for even just one person to finally start learning, that's worth it to me. Check it out here shop.betterpiano.com but either way, thanks for being here. You're the best.
Hey, just a heads up, I have a Silent Night remix available on Bandcamp and will be available everywhere else by midnight EST on Christmas Day. I think you’ll have a lot of fun dissecting it 😉😅
I also saw this in IMAX and love that other people experienced the same life-changing visuals and sound that I did with an already masterpiece film.
I’m just jealous you got tix, 70mm all sold out by the time I looked 😵
I had no idea they were bringing this back to theaters until I saw this video. Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time and so I just bought tickets for my family to see it tomorrow! Thank you so much for making this and making me aware of this returning to IMAX. I never got to see it in theaters, let alone IMAX. To say we are all excited is an understatement. Thank you for help create a new core memory for our family! Love you
It's a great discovery, and coming from Nolan I'm almost sure on purpose. Because he is a 2001 ultra-fan.
Never lose your enthusiasm, it’s totally infectious.
It really is and I notice it translates into my teaching and alot of my students can feel it too
I’m taking my first music theory class this year and i love watching these videos to see what I’ve learned in actual music.
Don't forget c is the constant for the speed of light. What an epic choice! Travelling into a black hole ending up at the speed of light and playing the music in the key of C... Just wonderful.
i think my favorite theme from the movie is “no time for caution” i think it’s from the docking scene but the way the organ kicks in just hits every time
Without a doubt, its so suspenseful and then turns triumphant when Coop succeeds in docking 😩
Mine is “detach”
@@danieldoesdumbstuff detach is literally phenominal
Either No Time for Caution or Tick Tock for me.
@@danieldoesdumbstuff same, I love "No Time For Caution" but the emotional weight behind "Detach" is simply unmatched.
Sitting in the first few rows in IMAX and seeing the look in my daughter's eyes, both hands covering her mouth, in absolute awe as the wave is revealed while 'Mountains' is blasting was such a visceral experience. In contrast to the launch scene where we are met with the silence of space, only hearing our own breathing. The silence itself also plays a character. It truly gives you the experience of being in the vacuum of space, placing you right next to the crew. Every second of this movie is such an emotional experience. ❤
I will NEVER forget seeing that mountain and realizing it was a wave. God, what a moment! The whole world shifted for me.
I agree so much, one of the most impactful moment for me is the first seconds in space with the silence. Ironically one of the best part of the soundtrack for me.
8:55 One thing I noticed here, is I think Hans is foreshadowing Cooper's descent into the Black Hole. The first time we hear this resolution is when He leaves Murph behind. Then next time we here is only moments before Cooper is left behind. It's almost like double foreshadowing: The first time is to establish the resolution of that chord progression, with Cooper thinking, or hoping, that Murph would be coming along for the ride, and then the realization that she isn't. This then parallels Brandt in that she thought all was well and that they would both make it out of the black holes gravity. Only this time the resolution foreshadows the realization that something was left behind, rather than coincide with it.
And even more than that, the first time is when he leaves Murph behind, and this time, the second time, is when he is about to go see her again, although he doesn't know that. 😅
@@alastairvanmaren5243 That's the way I took it -- the resolution of leaving is returning.
That whole scene is by far my favorite scene in any movie. The emotional build up with Zimmer's score... I can't not tear up. The feeling of success that builds as they slowly creep away from Gargantua, the subtle hint when TARS ejects his ranger, then that build up of quiet as Coop explains about leaving something behind. THEN you get Coop "Detaching" and it crescendo's showing Brand realizing what Coop's plan was... 😭😭😭. I need to find my box of Kleenex, I'm not crying, you are!
On Spotify you can find a longer version of "Detach" and it's called "Murph". It's really epic and emotional at the same time
Wait sorry what now?!? 10th anniversary re-release?!?
Holy crap that floored me. I could’ve sworn it had been out maybe 4 or 5 years at the most. 😂
Ahhh… you are ready for the midlife crisis my friend.
Fr time has lost all meaning to me 😂
Exactly the same here.
Also, Inception will turn 15 this coming 2025. Dafuq
2050 is the same distance as 2000
We're closer to 2100 than to WW2
1990 is further away from now than 2060
If The Dark Knight was a kid, it could have a driver's license. Batman Begins can drink in Canada, Inception is in high school.
Cornfield was absolutely mesmerising too.
One of my favorite movies and soundtracks of all time. That's scene of him driving away , leaving his daughter behind Is one of the most emotional combinations of motion picture and music ever made. And I agree the music of 2001a space odyssey had a huge impact on zimmer for this movie.
The emotion that this theme evokes makes me want to cry every time I hear it 😭🤍 I've loved the Interstellar soundtrack since the moment I first heard it. I can't wait to hear this live at the Hans Zimmer show. Thank you for covering Interstellar again!!!
I heard Hans Zimmer play this live with his whole orchestra at a concert a few months back. It was just unbelievable. Interstellar might be my favorite soundtrack of all time
16:20 This shot really caught me off guard. The tracking really just adds the cherry on top to this already amazing breakdown. Absolute cinema
In some sense the harmonies in this (and others as well) theme reminds me of the progressions Vangelis used quite often. I can literally hear it there. Which reminds me again - how is this possible you have never "deconstructed" any piece by Vangelis. And there are quite many I think you'd enjoy :)
Thank you so much for making this video, its so validating. This is actually my favorite theme from Interstellar and no one talks enough about it
13:20 Those climbing 6-5 motions, where you're like, "This is surprisingly conventional for Hans Zimmer" sound like Chopin to me
10:25 It also plays when they first spin up the Endurance for artificial gravity while orbiting Earth.
Yep I was just about to comment this. I want to say it also plays when they land on Mann’s planet, when they’re flying through the crystalized clouds
This is my favorite part of the movie because of this very theme. I was lucky enough to be able to witness Hans Zimmer Live in Chicago and this was the main moment I was looking forward to. It was absolutely spectacular. His vocalist, Leah Zeger, hit nots I didn’t even know were possible. Hans is a true mastermind.
The layers of brilliance in the Interstellar score are endless! Truly timeless work.
This is absolutely nuts. Just last week I watched your Interstellar video, and was crying out for analysis of the crescendo in 'Detach'. Absolutely my favourite ever Zimmer moment - and the fact that it's never repeated elsewhere in the score is genius. It drives home the pivotal importance of the moment - everything is building up to this point, and the emotion of the scene is rammed home on a grand scale. It's the perfect blend of cinematography and scoring - one of those epic, memorable points in cinema history. The only things that have hit me this hard in the past few years are the ending scenes of Nocturnal Animals, Hereditary and the re-entry scene in Gravity.
Love this channel 😀
This is my favorite in the film! Very Wagneresque. Love the extended version on Murph.
The brilliance of this theme is that it conveys a sense of urgency, but comes out on a positive note that things will work out for at least someone. Many similar situations in other movies would stretch the tension too much and the end on a downer like the ship going *boom*...
I agree
so did I! love interstellar so much, so brilliant!
I just rewatched this movie 2 days ago on a decked out Klipsch/Denon surround system, and this exact part jumped out at me so hard. I definitely rewound it a few times. It gives me Liebstod from Tristan und Isolde climax vibes.
I just saw it as well a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it.
I think that the section of "Detach" you're highlighting extends the theme of Murph and Cooper's that plays when he leaves her. It's like the resolution that the audience has been waiting for since the heartbreaking scene where they're separated. Cooper isn't leaving Murph this time, he's returning home, so Zimmer chose this moment to musically resolve their separation. Interstellar is such a brilliant story of love and connection between a father and his daughter. Their last meeting left me thinking about how I spend my time. Cooper can never get those years back and neither can we.
You highlighted my two favourite moments when it comes to the score. I remember afterwards everybody joking that "Hans Zimmer fell asleep on his organ," but in the theatre, that scene with Cooper driving away, checking one last time for Murph, the organ absolutely roaring, the countdown and the rocket engines, Murph missing her last chance to say goodbye... that's cinema hall of fame for me.
The other is the "Detach" resolution like you've highlighted here. It just makes me want to weep. For a while, I would post on my Instagram story a clip of the song that was stuck in my head that night. I liked that it gave me the chance to showcase which 15 seconds of the song mean the most to me. One night, it was Detach. I showcased that resolution 12:19 because it's just too good.
I'm really sad that no theatres in my area are playing the 10th anniversary screenings, because I really need to see it in IMAX again.
I too saw this in IMAX recently. Row D with the wall in front of you. Put your feet on that, and EVERYTHING is rumbling. Feels even more EPIC! And I too noticed so many more sounds and voice line that I never heard before. I've been to IMAX many times but this movie takes the full advantage of it's powers!
Hey Charles!
Thank you so lot for all the videos you're making. It's helping me a lot for understanding music as a whole. Keep doing what you're doing - you're awesome!
I loved your discernment of the moment coop leaves- major then the three minors- and flys toward the event horizon - three minors then major. That hit me.
One of my favorite in the movie is "message from home", I can remind how it threw me right away in the vast and lonely outer space and in this ambiguous and mysterious adventure. Plus the noise of the rain and nature in contrast with the crew and the ship being already so far away from home and the vacuum of the outside of the ship. It's so calm and the shots are amazing in this scene. Crazy moment to me..
This was an awesome video. Thank you for breaking this down and connecting the scenes to the emotion that the score evokes. Film scoring is a seemingly difficult but wonderful thing!
The quality really jumped up in this one. Your enthusiasm is contagious, keep up the great work!
i'm glad you emphasized how much he lands back on C major. i'm going to paraphrase from another great interstellar video so none of this is mine, but it talked about the music in a way that completely changed how I view a lot of the film. C major, most of us know it as the most basic key/chord we all learn when starting out on piano and a lot of other instruments. It's used in many iconic songs and almost plays into the fact that we know it feels like home.
In the very beginning of the film when Cooper is waking up, a visceral C major stacked with organs and strings plays as he looks out to his cornfield, silhouetted. Telling us this is his home. This same snippet of soundtrack is played when Coop reunites with Murph at the end, among numerous other times in the film (like you mentioned when he's leaving home, when they first dock, when they perform the spinning dock, and of course when Cooper drops into the black hole). It's home. C major is home. Which is why it was absolutely brilliant to use it in this to signify comfort and safety. it's as though C major represents the human race's journey and comfort. Everything here was absolutely intentional.
The beauty of it is that creates the tension in the scene and then the resolution in major gives you hope. Its masterfully simple as perfect
I’ve been uniquely obsessed with this specific sequence for a decade, and I’m glad somebody else is just as absorbed!
Even the single notes of the Interstellar themes make me feel good sad but more happy. That's the best way I can explain it
I always liked this theme and wondered why no one gave it the same attention as cornfield chase. just beautiful.
My favourite score is murph!! It comes in the end when he reaches tesseract. That score summarizes the whole movie soundtrack for me!!
the title says the theme you forgot about, but that theme is actually the theme i remember the most from the whole movie!
Especcially the shift to major really hit me, like "how can a major progression sound so heartbreaking and intense??"
Charles, remember when Nolan asked Zimmer to write a small piece for him with no context except it's a love letter from a dad to his daughter? I think this is actually that piece.
They never came out saying what theme Zimmer came up with. But you're so right that this is the only time it's played. You found it!
Nolan actually told him it was from a father to his son, even though in the film it's actually about a father and his daughter. I thought this was because he only has a son, but he actually has daughters as well, so an interesting choice from Nolan there.
The track is not this one it’s the ‘day one’ track, because he asked him to give him ‘one day’.Hense the name ‘day one’ on the album. You can hear it in the demo track he released for the soundtrack. There’s a version called ‘day one’ and another called ‘day one dark’ in the demo. You can hear how it evolved to the finished product heard in the film, pretty fun
@@LaurieTheberge Day One Demo is also particularly unique because it's before they decided to use an Organ. so it's just the strings and piano
Thank you very much for covering "Detach". It's the piece that made me seek out the movie and then soundtrack after and just captures the ominous close proximity of Gargantua so well just before they make their flight from it. The whole soundtrack is ladened with so many bits of music like this that get overshadowed by the main theme and manage to strike many different moods that you could be in :)
My favourite theme in Interstellar is “Coward” the organ playing in that song is insane!
Coward is definitely underrated!
Not a song
I was waiting for you to mention Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (which you did a great video on not long ago), since the chords and progressions, and lengthy tension away from a resolution, are so much a part of both scores! What a phenomenal film and score -- so glad you're still bringing the analysis and enthusiasm!
So exciting to watch, thank you!!
I love the switch to the major chords when he checks for Murph and when he detaches from Amelia’s craft… in both cases Cooper “had to leave something behind” and this was the point of no return
Choosing the major chord gave the scenes this heavenly/heroic sound but still felt unsettling because we’re watching Cooper leave behind the most important people in his life knowing he will be totally alone
Charles, you made me cry all over again over this soundtrack. I agree when you suggest there are hints of strauss on that passage. Not only that, I would argue a bit of Debussy also! (Maybe even THE DIG, if we're sticking to space refferences!). Also the gangantua manouver and coop leaving/launching, we get all that agony and anxiety from the minor chords, reflecting the absolute tragedy/immensenesss/vulnerability/hopelessness from all that situation, and on a few, meager occasions theres that BRIEF major chord BLISS, when either coop searches for his daughter on the passenger seat, or when amelia speaks at the end of the manouver. Both there to reming us that despit all the darkness, love is there, our constant thru space and time. I love you all ❤❤❤
Saw Hans Zimmer Live this year and it was a magical experience.
Interstellar is my favorite movie and I think this musical moment is so underrated! I think the very major-sounding melody when Cooper is detaching into the black hole adds to the bittersweet feeling of the moment - it’s sad, but the music is so happy sounding. Heart wrenching.
This is by far my favorite video from him so far! Nice job!
I think my favourite track from the film is Fear of Time, there’s something so beautifully chilling and heart wrenching about it
Interstellar is such a masterpiece.
So happy to see new content about it!
The combination of the visuals, the soundtrack and also the power of the sound with feeling the rumble in IMAX was just absolutely incredible. I hope I get to see it in IMAX again fairly soon
Thank you so much for covering this theme. I love your take and explanations on this one. It revives in a certain way my deep love for this movie and this soundtrack. I remember how I was strike when I saw it the first time in the theater with the immersion of the sound. Crazy.. one of the best experience I've had the chance to live. I hope to watch it again in a theater some day.
Cheers 🐚
The scene he was about to discuss 10:15 is for me, pure musical emotional brilliance.
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10:56 or thereabouts also sounds like he took some inspiration from Wagner and "Tristan und Isolde." You know the chord I'm talking about.
I thought the same thing!
My favourite track from my favourite movie is „Mountains“
It has just such an impact. I get goosebumbs everytime
I think the song "Messages from Home" really highlights the emptiness when they're hanging out at saturn.
For my money, the theme to Moon (2009) is the greatest space film theme of the 21st century. Sunshine and Gravity also up there. Love your work!
Omg Moon is so good!!!
This movie is something incredible. Every time I watch it I have the same identical feelings, no matters how many times.
Can't wait to see how crazy Charles will get when he hears and talks about Persona series' soundtrack.
I've always considered this score to be a masterpiece from Hans Zimmer. I wholeheartedly agree, the theme you talk about here is just the epitome of what leaving something behind sounds like musically. My favorite has always been his use of tempo in the theme from Miller's Planet (the one with the huge waves). After watching the movie for the first time, I went back to check the tempo he used when they first notice that the "mountains" on Miller's planet were actually waves, and it was exactly 60 bpm, one second per beat. This to me seemed like the most fitting use of musical composition to really drive home the importance of the time they were using on Miller's planet, considering every hour was equivalent to 7 years on Earth. Absolutely incredible writing. Zimmer seems to have an uncanny ability to tell the story being displayed on screen with the music itself. Always brilliant.
These pieces are so fantastic, I've always prefereed them to the main theme thats so popular. That major resolution moment always gives me the feeling of going from the anticipation and anxiety of space travel to the existential pure wonder of it. Makes me cry every time.
you make music look so easy and natural! You inspire a lot of people to learn music! Love you man!
I was just at dinner with a friend this evening and we were talking about how incredible "Detach" is! I'll send him a link to this video. Great work as usual
Bro, you were so dialed in emotionally on this video! Super well done!
Easily my favorite moment in the film. Love the breakdown of the music.
Love your channel, Charles and I can’t even play a note. 😂 “No Time For Caution“ is my favorite track from Interstellar. Love the scene, love the song.
Zimmer is so good. The way he builds the tension in this is masterful. I think this is a better piece of music than the main theme.
There are so many different scenes in this movie that I adore for so many different reasons... but if I had to choose my absolute favourite moment from the film, it might be one close to the beginning, when the adventure's just begun.
As Prof. Brandt recites Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, the music seems to hammer in this tremoring intensity. Brandt's voice, almost always stoic and calm, seems to gain a subtle power, like a spark has been lit in him, a desperate fury to sustain the future of life. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" he says, seems to beg, as the Endurance is dwarfed by a gorgeous shot of the Earth, a silent god suspended in the void. A sickly, dying god, a god we're now abandoning. It's here that the music, before now revelling in its intense complexity, is overpowered by the rising drone of that one chord, the space chord, screaming into the abyss like a siren, like the wailing of a species searching fruitlessly for the way forward.
It's my absolute favourite scene in the movie. And that shot... that shot might actually be my favourite shot of all time.
The C Major Chord with the Ab and B natural at the end of the docking scene still remains one of my favorite chords to this day.
it's Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
indeed!
I actually hear 'Death and Transfiguration' there clear as mud
Good artists borrow, great artists steal
- -Picasso-
- -Banksy-
-Me
The way I interpreted the major resolution in the first scene when he's driving away is that that was a fond memory for him, when she snuck away in the truck to help him find the coordinates.
I WATCHED TWICE IN IMAX THIS PAST WEEK. FIRST TIME 😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️
The music in this part of the film is really something special, but my favorite theme would probably be "no time for caution", that organ hits so hard every time and gives me goosebumps
Charles! I'd love more advanced courses in your bundle! I already bought the discounted course deal and have gone through the majority of your courses. Very helpful! But some more advanced theory courses would be great!! ❤
I saw it in IMAX this year after having seen it probably 20 times, it's like a whole different film. This theme is my favorite one.
I still listen to this soundtrack quite a lot. "Detach" I think is the name of this particular track. Love Hans Zimmer's stuff and really enjoyed this film too. "Stay" is quite similar and has same build up but prefer the ending of "Detach" i.e. C major, A minor, B flat etc.
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And you ain’t diff than no one else, pal. So does everyone else?
@@MildSatire You are correct to point out my spelling mistake but you could maybe do with some lessons in grammar. Do you have anything positive to say about the actual content of the video?
@@vengermanu9375 My grammar is ironic !!! And yeah I didn’t watch the vid man, should I?
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12:00 From this point on, it’s so closely modelled on the latter part of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” it’s basically a somewhat simplified cover version.
This song and moment in the film are incredible and get me every time I watch and hear it
Cornfield Chase, Mountains, Stay, and No Time for Caution are my favorite ones out of the entire soundtrack. Do you breakdown how movies are scored in terms of how to write with each part of an orchestra such as Strings, Brass, Woodwinds etc. If so, is it in your course bundle and do you cover how to turn a melody and chords into a full orchestral piece? I really like the content btw especially this one!
14:31 one of the best shots in cinema history IMO. Beautiful
Trust me, I could never forget a piece like that
That big climax on Detach always reminds me of the ending of Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. But it's the final pipe organ chord of the spinning docking scene that slays me.
That is my favorite moment in the score as well but I really love the whole thing. The organ sound is beautiful and so atmospheric. It isn’t busy and bombastic like a lot of scores I enjoy. It feels like raw emotion expressed as sound. It works so well in the film. I wish I had gotten to an IMAX showing but I have a 4k UHD copy and a decent home theater setup. I’ve watched the movie many times.
If somehow you have yet to listen to Mahler's 2nd symphony finale, boy it will be a ride !! You really have to !!
First time Mahler‘s 2nd… remember it vividly
This Hans Zimmer theme is basically Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde”. It’s so closely modelled on it, it can only be a conscious reference.
I remember watching Interstellar in the cinema when it first came out and when I first heard the theme you're talking about at 4:44 I immediately thought of Sibelius Symphony No. 7. There's an epic stormy climactic section about half way through that symphony that features almost the same theme played by the brass. And it's also in the key of C. Wonder if Zimmer intentionally pinched that from Sibelius for this film or if it was subconscious. But there is definitely a striking resemblance. Film composer's pinch stuff from classical music all the time though. Bit's of the Gladiator score (The battle scene at the beginning of the film) sounds quite similar to "Mars, The Bringer of War" from The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst. And of course John Williams also used a ton of stuff from The Planets Suite for Star Wars.
Saw Interstellar for the first time during this 10 year anniversary rerelease. It is a beautiful movie with beautiful music. We are all more familiar with the main theme but that black hole theme is so beautiful.
Interstellar was incredible! 1 of only 3 movies I have seen where the IMAX version really makes a difference in your viewing experience.
S.T.A.Y. is the very first track on my movie themed and classical playlist of over two hundred tracks, because it’s amazing.
Never forgot nor ever will. This soundtrack is amazing.
what a lovely video. Seeing this film in IMAX 10 years later was amazing, tempted to go again😭😆
The two chords right before the last chord in this piece (Am and ?) call back to the main theme / Cornfield Chase.
Very nice.
“Detach” is my FAVORITE song in the score. Same motif in the song “Stay” (not S.T.A.Y.)
I LOVE INTERSTELLAR 🔥🔥🔥
I’ve been obsessed with this particular theme since it came out, and there’s a track on the extended edition called “Murph” that prolongs the mercurial build up for 9 solid minutes and then finally releases into the gorgeous resolution melody you’re talking about. And like the great dude he is, Hans gifts us by repeating the melody twice in all its magisterial glory.
Have driven down the road way too fast listening to it many, many times 😅
Listen to Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde”. To say that Zimmer closely modelled this theme on the latter half of it is an understatement.
@ I love that theme as well. The greats know when to borrow
Please do a video on Hansel’s Messiah in the spirit of Christmas. Also, I’ve always loved the use of organ to associate with space. The size of the instrument makes it feel so vast.
"I love you forever, and I'm comin back"
I definitely did not forget about this theme. Probably the best theme of the movie.
My favorite movie ever and I was crushed when the only Imax theatre feasibly within reach wasn't playing it. 😭