The best cinema films with the music of Christophe Beck
ChristopheBeck is a composer of film and television soundtracks. Emmy Award winner, he has composed music for films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Sentinel, The Hangover, either Frozen: the ice kingdom.
This February 17, 2023, it was released in Spain Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the latest American superhero film based on Marvel Comics and Scott Lang's Ant-Man and Hope Van Dyne's Wasp. Beck has been in charge of composing the score in what is his 76th composition intended for cinema and film soundtracks. For all these reasons, in this article we offer you the best movies with the music of Christophe Beck.
Who is Christophe Beck?
Jean-Christophe Beck is a Canadian composer who has worked creating, composing and designing soundtracks for film and television. He began taking piano lessons at the age of five and, at age twelve, began learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing them with his first band, dubbed 'Chris and the Cupcakes'.
Throughout high school he studied piano, saxophone and learned to play the drums, and wrote numerous romantic ballads in the 1980s. While studying music at Yale University he wrote two musicals with his brother Jason, and wrote an opera based on in the novel 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Christophe Beck Awards and Nominations
After graduation he moved to the city of Los Angeles, where he studied with Jerry Goldsmith. There, he received a personal recommendation from the department chair at the University of California and landed his first job as a composer for a Canadian television series.
After numerous works he received the Emmy Award in 1998, for Best Musical Composition for a Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which he was also nominated for Best Musical Direction in 2002. He also received a nomination for Best Musical Composition in a Series for WandaVision. In 2007 he appeared in the documentary titled Finding Kraftland, for his agent Richard Kraft. He currently continues working in his Santa Monica studio in California.
The best soundtracks by Christophe Beck
The music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and in its parallel series, TOangel, also composed by Christophe Beck and Robert J. Kral, is a key aspect of both series. The main theme of Buffy plays in the opening credits of the series. The song itself has no lyrics; It begins with some keyboard notes, with a characteristic sound of horror movies from the 30s. But quickly, it is replaced by light rock; an electric guitar riff, which winks at young and postmodern culture that represents a twist to the horror genre.
The song is played by the punk rock band Nerf Herder, that in an interview they explained that "Buffy's production team hired some famous composers to compose a song and they didn't like what they did, they had a rather low budget, and they asked local bands to show them some ideas."
His work in Cheaper by the Dozen (Twelve at home), forms a symphonic comedy score, with bombastic emphatic melodies endowed with a great sense of rhythm. It offers good romantic themes and a pleasant tone overall. In the case of Two For the Money,Yomite), starring Al Pacino, the soundtrack alternates and also fuses symphonic music with electronic and ambient instrumentation, giving the film a certain grandiloquent and emphatic air.
In The Sentinel, (The shadow of suspicion), where he returns to work on a film full of great artists such as Michael Douglas or Kiefer Sutherland, the composer creates an action score, which uses different types of musical prototypes of the genre. Dynamic themes, orchestral effects and a delicious melodic frenzy. It is an efficient and homogeneous composition, despite its conventionalism.
On the other hand, the Canadian also worked in 2007, on the original soundtrack of Fred Klaus, Santa Claus's thug brother, a Christmas comedy starring Vince Vaughn. This work is dominated by the film's commercial songs, by great artists such as Elvis Prestley, Doris Day, the Jacksons Five or Senead O'Connor. These works relegate the composer's notable music to a corner, summarized in a suite with emphatic, romantic and dramatic music, whose main virtue is elegance.
The last stop in our review of his best compositions for film, we establish it in the successful Hangover in Las Vegas, Todd Phillips' multi-award-winning comedy. The ambient soundtrack is partially based on acoustic folk music which, applied in the film, gives a humorously bleak tone.
The success of Ant-Man: Ant-Man and composer Christophe Beck
Christophe Beck's success with the franchise Ant-Man, began with the American superhero film of the same name, in 2015. The soundtrack of the first installment of this Marvel Studios saga was also composed by the Canadian and the album was released in digital format on July 17, 2015, and in physical format on August 7 of the same year, through Hollywood Records.
After Steven Prince left the project a year into production, in January 2015, Beck replaced him. Describing the film's soundtrack, Beck noted: “To Ant-Man, I wanted to write in the great traditionn sinfeitheronly one of my moviessuperhero iconsfavorite rodents, with a wide scope and a big, catchy main theme. What sets this soundtrack apart from other Marvel soundtracks, however, is a subtle sense of fun since, after all, it's not just a superhero movie, but also a heist comedy."
Music critics have rated the film's soundtrack Ant-Man, like a work of value as a sinf soundtrackonic, and applicable to any film in the superhero genre. It has a vibrant and retentive main theme, with variations, and diverse themes for action and adventure, and music of more dramatic tones.
Ant-Man is among the best movies based on a comic. Not in vain, he raised more than 519 million dollars worldwide and was very well received by critics, who praised the cast, the humor and the CGI-generated scenes.
Spectators who attend the current Krypton tour will be able to enjoy the music of Ant-Man in concert, thanks to the Film Symphony Orchestra. On February 25, the FSO performs at the National Auditorium in Madrid and has also announced four new dates. On April 28, also at the National Auditorium, on May 25 at the Valencia Conference Center, with two performances on the same day. Likewise, L`Auditori de Barcelona will host this fantastic tour on May 21.
The premiere of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and the music of Christophe Beck
As we have mentioned, the third installment of the franchise, after the aforementioned first part and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania It has already reached cinemas around the world. It is the founding film of the new phase of Marvel and continues the Multiverse Saga that began in phase 4. It is a crucial piece of history for the future of the MCU, because Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania introduces the great villain of the saga, Kang the Conqueror.
Christophe Beck is one of the most relevant composers of film and television music today. With a brilliant career, which has led him to win a Grammy Award for musical composition for the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a nomination in the category of best musical composition in Wandavision and the best musical direction.
Don't miss the opportunity to see and hear the best work of Christophe Beck on Film Symphony Orchestra's Krypton Tour, that of Ant-Man, which will also be played in other concerts by the orchestra in cities such as Burgos, Granada, Roquetas de Mar, Salamanca, Mallorca, Tenerife or Gijón.
