CATEGORY: Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
INTERVIEW WITH: Dario Marianelli
FILM: "ATONEMENT"
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Q. Dante and Francesca just won an Oscar. How proud do you feel right now?
A. It makes me feel proud to be Italian, but more than that, I feel very proud to be in the same place and at the same time as Dante and Francesca. They are amazing, really. They work (unintelligible). And just being here with them and being mentioned with them is a great honor.
Q. Congratulations.
A. Thank you.
Q. The one thing that people the features that people talk about with the score, is the use of the typewriter keys and the clicking throughout. What was your inspiration for that and was it from reading the novel or is just from literature as music?
A. I think it started life in Italy with a conversation with the director at the beginning. As we started the very opening of the film, with the typewriter as a (unintelligible) and so it came out almost as a dare, let's see what we can do with the typewriter sound. And from there we had several discussions and tests we used some music with solo typewriters, and (unintelligible) the orchestra. It just developed from there.
Q. Thank you very much and congratulations.
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