I would like help with this scene...

Allright, so you've got a situation where the hero is in very deep trouble. Remember that scene in The Dark knight where Harvey Dent is tied up next to a bomb in a room full of viscous oil? Kind of like that, only...

-They are a couple of stories up.

-He's not tied to a chair, but rather incapacitated with the paralyzer and slumped against a packing crate.

- It's not a death trap set up specifically for him, he just happened to track down the big bad and his henchmen while they were preparing to destroy a cache of evidence; papers, old electronics, and technology they couldn't just leave lying around... along with some cronies whose ambition outweighed their common sense.

Realising too late that they were the bigger fish, the guy now finds himself robbed even of the ability to casually spit into the Big Bad's face as he kneels down to mock him (tragic, isn't it?)

But here comes the real kicker; one of the henchmen not scheduled for rapid explosive disassembly, a cheerful fellow, cheerfully insane, that is, with a good amount of for science! thrown in, decides to play a little tune on a phonograph nearby. Maybe he's a sadistic bastard to boot, or maybe he just needed some entertainment either way, it starts playing, the villains leave, so queue hero's desperate attempt to get out of there.

My idea is to have him painfully crawl to the side, spluttering in some puddles along the way, bang on the windows a few times as his strength starts to return, make a few cracks, turn around at the sound of the bombs click, and be blasted out of the weakened window to the ground below (he survives... just.)

Now I've got a rough idea of the song I'd like playing, heres two from Mozarts requiem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AGJYmSkz0&feature=related (Tuba Mirum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_HErMwHag&feature=related (Dies Irae)

Both very nice pieces, but the first one lacks a satisfying crescendo to the explosion, and the second starts off too intensely to what is meant to be quite a wrenching, suspenseful scene. (Gotta stay positive about your own work right?)

Now on the other end of the musical dissonance spectrum are these two pieces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdx5nGphnAI (Con Te Partiro) 'time to say goodbye'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hgUx9h3nU4 (Ich Wollt Ich War ein Huhn)

These songs, I think, could either add a cheerful, mocking tune... or completely ruin any impact the scene could have.

Your thoughts?

edited 3rd Mar '12 1:51:57 AM by TheSkeletalGent

So you're filming this, I take it?

Nope, it's for a story

Well, fan fiction. Let's me play around a bit with silly things

Will you be providing a link to the song in the story?

If not, you can always use a fictional song and describe that in prose.

If it's in a written story, it really doesn't matter. Of course the piece should be appropriate, but a lack of climax in the piece is irrelevant, since nobody is going to queue it up at the beginning of the scene and play it like a soundtrack.

Reading about a crescendo is one thing, knowing what it sounds like, having every instrument play to a climax, even just in your head, is quite another...

I could post the link, and by the lyrics and descriptions make it pretty obvious which song is being played... Not note for note and word for word, but certain parts of the song linked up with certain parts of the scene... course, I'm extremely optimistic when it comes to what I think I can do...