KnivesOut: Nathan Johnson on finding the music cues for Rian Johnson's murder mystery
, having previously teamed up on “Brick,” “Looper,” and “The Brothers Bloom.” But their roots go far deeper than that: they’re cousins.” over a decade ago. “He basically told me about the opening sequence,” Nathan Johnson says. “Through the years, as I was writing for other films, I’d occasionally come across this idea.”sat down to complete the script and shoot the film. In most cases, the composer will see the film after its been shot.
Another luxury for Johnson was working with an orchestra, a far cry from his work on 2005’s “Brick.” “We had zero budget, so it was about creating a score with what was at hand. We used wine glasses, filing cabinets and utensils for that score,” Johnson says. In 2012’s “Looper,” he was finding ways outside the box to turn a treadmill into a playable instrument. “It was fun to really play in the sandbox for ‘Knives Out,’ ” Johnson says.
The score for the film and its melodic motif was inspired by music of the ’50s and ’60s. “We loved using those traditional elements, but we still tried approaching things in interesting ways,” he recalls. That involved playing string instruments and having the musicians dig into the strings, “almost like knives.” “Knives Out! ” sets that theme right away, a sharp sound that set the parameters for the score.
Knives, fittingly, feature a lot in the film. Family patriarch Harlan Thrombey dies early on in the film. The Thrombey clan clamor to seek their inheritance, but not before being interrogated in his throne of knives. For “The Thrombey Estate” cue, Johnson says, “I was thinking about Harlan. He’s the stream that everyone flows out of. He created this house for them all to live in. All the stuff in the house is stuff he’s written into his books.
Johnson says his favorite music cue to write was “The Will.” We got to bring back the ‘Knives Out Quartet’ but with the support of a full orchestra,” he explains. “In that cue, the orchestra plays around with a gigantic string slide. That slide takes us into this unsettling craziness that begins to happen. ‘The Will’ is the shift in the movie. We break open the doors and we go for the throat.”
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