Fog Tropes

I wanted to have a link to this in the last post, but it was running way too long. An alternative to commissioning a new score for a film is to use existing music. Usually this is done with pop or rock music, but occasionally a soundtrack is pieced together from classical or modern classical music. Stanley Kubrick seemed especially adept at the practice in his films like The Shining and 2001.

This piece is the opening to Shutter Island. It's a very non-traditional piece of music, where it's sometimes difficult to tell where the sound effects end and the music starts.