![]() He even explains the song (or his understanding of it): “A fisherman grows weary of trying to catch an elusive fish. “You are familiar with Schubert’s work?” he asks, adding “the Trout is perhaps my favourite.” In the 2011 film Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows, Professor Moriarty toys with Holmes, in a malicious prelude to torturing him. In the Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’, the evil Largo (note the musical term, although it is hardly goosebump-inducing would Tremolo have worked better?) whistles the opening bars as he punishes the leading lady Domino for her betrayal. Many of us heard it quite recently, at the splendid recital by Patricia Rozario in Old Goa, with Mark Troop at the piano.įor some reason, film villains take sadistic pleasure from it. But today let us examine the fascination with one work in particular: the Lied, or song, ‘Die Forelle’ (The Trout), composed in 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828), when he was just twenty. ![]() In ‘Quantum of Solace’ (2008), the ‘bad guys’ love it so much that they hold a conference meeting through microphones and earpieces during a performance of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ while seated scattered about the Bregenz opera house. Irritated by the flutist messing his part in Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ overture, Lecter (Red Dragon 2002) makes him ‘disappear’ and it is implied that the hapless musician’s organs are served up in the banquet Lecter throws for the orchestra board.īond villains in particular love classical music as well. He wrote some six hundred romantic songs as well as many operas, symphonies, sonatas and many other works.What is it about film villains and classical music? Serial killer Hannibal Lecter (played chillingly by Anthony Hopkins) is not only “intellectually brilliant”, but “cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, cuisine and music.” He is depicted as having been a sitting member on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s board of directors. ![]() Franz Peter Schubert (JanuNovember 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer. ![]()
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