Okay, it’s not quite being given away, but at the moment, you can stream Hans Zimmer’s entire soundtrack for The Dark Knight Rises at Empire. You can’t save it or anything — you’ll have to buy the CD or download it come July 16 if you like it that much [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.] — but you can listen to all of it.
Is giving away a movie’s soundtrack a good publicity move?
For me, movie music doesn’t really have much resonance disconnected from the visuals. Oh, sure, I like listening to some soundtracks after I’ve seen a film — I have some soundtracks that I listen to over and over again — but that’s because the music helps recreate the emotional experience I had while watching the movie. So while I like the music on the Rises score, I can’t say that it actually makes me feel any differently about my anticipation for the film itself.
And there’s this, too: Isn’t anyone who’s going to see Rises already made that decision? Could hearing the score now possibly change anyone’s mind?
What do you think?
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