David Shire All The President's Men

JoE Silva gets the lowdown on the making of a soundtrack classic.

You’re at least 40 minutes into Alan J Pakula’s All The President’s Men before you realise that the score has finally ambled onto the screen. When it does, it appears like a seemingly incidental character that you soon come to realise holds the key to the entire plot in its attaché case. Slow piano pulses morph into a steady cadence before being quickly overtaken by a set of ascending brass intervals that accompany the camera as it literally climbs into the domed ceiling of the Library of Congress reading room in Washington DC. It’s a superb visual and audio pairing – a combination that brings further gravitas to the creeping paranoia that has already enveloped the film.

This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 56
Filed under Back Track

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