Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

When it talks about Disney Animation in recent years, it must be Frozen that comes to our mind first. Being both fun and inspiring, Frozen was highly praised, even accumulated nearly $1.3 billion worldwide. Considering of its success, maybe Frozen is more a musical than an animation. 
Compared with other animations, Frozen does have excellent background music, but also puts much more emphasis on the songs like "Let it go", "For the First Time in Forever" etc. Simple Lyrics and light-hearted rhythm might be factors of being catchy songs, especially "Let it Go". Moreover, the reason of having an arrangement similar to broadway comedy, that is songs sung by people instead of music only with instruments, featuring a new way to enjoy this anime as a musical. 

Scene of "Frozen Heart"

First of all, the whole movie begins with "Vuelie (feat. Cantus)", creating an atmosphere of the native but amazing magical world. Next, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" and other ones play an important role to illustrate the story and express the mood with the scripts combined with lyrics. Of course, "Let it Go" is a good example of describing Elsa's loneliness. "In Summer" would be Olaf's turn to show off, an interesting and funny snowman.

Elsa sings "Let it Go" with great sorrow

Funny snowman Olaf with his summer dream, "In Summer"

Between these scenes, the soundtracks behind, or we say background musics can not be absent. The chasing scene with "Return to Arendelle", Elsa's fear of her power with "Sorcery", and the last moment "Whiteout", while Anna is turned into an ice block by curse. Last but not the least, "The Great Thaw" and "Epilogue" combine each important parts of whole anime, and come to the final with happy ending.

Album Information：

1.	"Frozen Heart"		1:45
2.	"Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"		3:27
3.	"For the First Time in Forever"		3:45
4.	"Love Is an Open Door"		2:07
5.	"Let It Go"		3:44
6.	"Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People"		0:50
7.	"In Summer"		1:54
8.	"For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)"		2:30
9.	"Fixer Upper"		3:02
10.	"Let It Go" (single version)		3:47
11.	"Vuelie" (featuring Cantus)		1:36
12.	"Elsa and Anna"		2:43
13.	"The Trolls"		1:48
14.	"Coronation Day"		1:14
15.	"Heimr Àrnadalr"		1:25
16.	"Winter's Waltz"		1:00
17.	"Sorcery"		3:17
18.	"Royal Pursuit"		1:02
19.	"Onward and Upward"		1:54
20.	"Wolves"		1:44
21.	"The North Mountain"		1:34
22.	"We Were So Close"		1:53
23.	"Marshmallow Attack!"		1:43
24.	"Conceal, Don't Feel"		1:07
25.	"Only an Act of True Love"		1:07
26.	"Summit Siege"		2:32
27.	"Return to Arendelle"		1:38
28.	"Treason"		1:36
29.	"Some People Are Worth Melting For"		2:06
30.	"Whiteout"		4:17
31.	"The Great Thaw (Vuelie Reprise)"		2:29
32.	"Epilogue"		3:04

Ref：
1. Frozen - Wikipedia
2. Soundtrack Review: Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. My own opinions:)

Next week would be "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Original Soundtrack". See you then!!

Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

As a great hit in 2014 and receiving both honors and criticizes, The Imitation Game is a true story adaption about the life of Alan Turing, a genius mathematician who helped Allies to crack Axis' codes in world war II and made contributions to modern computing. Besides, it also features Turing's characteristic, relationship, and sexual orientation, which makes Imitation Game not just a historical movie, but the one represents social issues and his legend.
Directed by Morten Tyldum and music by Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game is absolutely excellent both in plot and music, and it starts in a scene of interrogation of Turing being suspected of being a spy, then he talked about his past, his life, and his desire during this interrogation.
Began with "The Imitation Game", an opening title with mysterious numbers and words floating around. Soon after, a warm and touching version in "Mission", and again, the meaningful one which represents the whole story in "Alan Turing's Legacy" at the end. Perhaps, we could say that the entire The Imitation Game is all about these theme musics, illustrating a complicate main idea, or maybe the spirit of this movie, showing Turing's incredible talent but also his suffering during his lifetime.

As the story goes by in the movie, the musics also vary in many ways. "Crosswords" feature the anxiety of the compete process with orchestra and xylophone. "End of the War" is about an important period comes to an end and the next coming life period. The one I enjoy the most is "Alone with Numbers", while Turing did not get along with his colleagues well and satisfy superiors. That is the time that he recalled his childhood, thought of his future, and suffered from the uncertainty between his faith and loneliness, which is quite a nice one that makes you actually perceive Turing's helpless mind and also, his strong will. Maybe just as he said, or even said by others,
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine"
allows Alan Turing to be a legend.

Album Information：

1. "The Imitation Game" 
2. "Enigma"
3. "Alan"
4. "U-boats"
5. "Carrots and Peas"
6. "Mission"
7. "Crosswords"
8. "Night Research"
9. "Joan" 
10. "Alone with Numbers" 
11. "The Machine Christopher"
12. "Running" 
13. "The Headmaster" 
14. "Decrypting"
15. "A Different Equation" 
16. "Becoming a Spy"
17. "The Apple" 
18. "Farewell to Christopher"
19. "End of War"
20. "Because of You"
21. "Alan Turing's Legacy" 


Ref:
1. Imitation Game - Wikipedia
2. Imitation Game Soundtrack Review - Movie Waves
3. My own opinions:)

Next week would be Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), see you then!!

Inception (Music From the Motion Picture)

Inception, a fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan in 2010, talks about the dream we dream and the concept inside. The eye-catching visual effect, impressive plots, and the fantastic background music, which composed by Hans Zimmer, maybe the most famous movie soundtrack composer, make Inception become a topic of a moment.

The movie is trying to convey a idea of dream and how we dream. Dream, literally happened when we are sleeping; however, it also reflects our thoughts and memories. We could see that the movie is trying to guide us step by step and show us the deeper and deeper perception of somebody through the dream, even the dream within the dream. Moreover, it is the music that help us to realize the characters' minds and the past of them, and the most important, to dream deeper and deeper.

Throughout the movie, there does have a lot of marvelous scene to talk about, like the chasing inside the "rotating" hotel or the flipped dream world . Both of them feature the exciting and intense feeling through the "528491" and "Dream Is Collapsing". And when it talks about the best one, it must be the last moment when Leonardo faces his past, the complicate mood between saving other and carry through his faith. "Time" plays such an important role in that part that it lead us to think, think about our whole life; to dream, dreaming an incredible dream of being. With awe and disbelief, the whole movie comes to the end with the spinning top which reminds you whether this world you stay now is a real one, or just a dream.

Tracklist：

1.	"Half Remembered Dream"	1:12
2.	"We Built Our Own World"	1:55
3.	"Dream Is Collapsing"	2:28
4.	"Radical Notion"	3:43
5.	"Old Souls"	7:44
6.	"528491"	2:23
7.	"Mombasa"	4:54
8.	"One Simple Idea"	2:28
9.	"Dream Within a Dream"	5:04
10.	"Waiting for a Train"	9:30
11.	"Paradox"	3:25
12.	"Time"	4:35

Ref：
Inception - wikipedia
Soundtrack Review: Inception (2010)
My own opinions :)

Next time, I would introduce "The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". See you then!!:)