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Hans Zimmer’s “Horrendous” Dissonant Score For ‘Blitz’ Helped Him Understand His Mother’s WWII Experience – Sound & Screen Film
'Blitz' composer Hans Zimmer explained how his "horrendous" dissonant score for the film’ helped him understand his mother’s WWII experience.
While legendary film composer Hans Zimmer has previously ventured musically into the realm of World War II with films like Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor, working on filmmaker Steve McQueen’s Blitz – set during the relentless, eight-month-long bombing of London by Nazi Germany – allowed him to look at the era, and a facet of his own family history, in a way he never had before. Indeed, the story moved Zimmer to create a musical score to reflect the unrelenting chaos and brutality of the blitz, so disturbing that it was difficult for him to assemble a sonically palatable collection of passages to present with a live orchestra to the Sound & Screen audience. “It is an absolute horrible score, it’s so dissonant, it’s so committed to this atonality that it was very difficult to put pieces together where you weren’t going to go and run screaming out this room, because I didn’t think I could do that to you.
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