Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-6052796-20150311113516

Junior's music sounds more gentle than his dad's. You can't go wrong with James Newton Howard. I'd say the sadness surprised me for RE but Sadness and Video Games go together like bullets and zombie heads. Especially in a video game movie done properly. With the one I showed you though, it's not so much the song that's sad, but the picture that goes with it. This song was played when Keiichi confesses to his friends about an incident, where he shot some kids with a BB gun, although they didn't think his confession was necessary, the lifted burden caused him to remember a past life where he killed Rena and Mion. Pretty much a flashback of the first story arc. However it turns out his and to and extent our belief at the time that Rena and Mion were out to get him turned out to be a paranoia induced hallucination. There was even an extension where it shows Rena's last moments, rather than scream or panic despite being partially beaten and watching her best friend kill her other best friend, she stretches her arms out and smiles through the tears trying to reach out to Keiichi asking him to believe in her. He was too far gone and didn't understand the gesture which enraged him more to beat her to death. It's literally the only time in my life I look at something bloody and not get grossed out or scared by it, but rather sad by it.