On Parks and Recreation, Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) tries to explain to April (Aubrey Plaza) that he has so many soundtracks because, “I kind of look at it like it’s your favorite directors making a mix tape just for you.” While that’s a cute and naïve way of looking at it (although in the case of Cameron Crowe movies, probably true), for the most part, soundtracks serve to support the film.
They’re part of the storytelling apparatus.
Sometimes the choices can be super obvious (there’s a moratorium on using “Sympathy for the Devil” until 2067), …
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