Slash On The Film Score Of "The Wrestler" Movie

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Clint Mansell Talks About Using GN'R's Slash For "The Wrestler" Score

For a long time it was rumored that former Guns N' Roses/current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash had done something for "The Wrestler," but what exactly since longtime Darren Aronofsky composer Clint Mansell wrote the score?

The L.A. Times' Pop & Hiss caught up with Mansell, and the answer kind of figures. Much like "The Fountain" score which Mansell wrote but Mogwai and the Kronos Quartet played, and for "The Wrestler" the moody guitar music was written by Mansell, but performed by Slash.

"We just thought it would be interesting, given that the character's favorite music is rock -- metal -- music," Mansell said. "We wanted that sensibility and wanted to bridge the gap between score and source. Slash is one of the world's great guitar players, and he was up for trying something different than what he's known for, but he could also bring his sensibility to what I was trying to do."

Coincidentally, a lot of the music that influenced Mansell's minimalist and mantra-like guitar score to the film was the stark early music of Bruce Springsteen, who of course wrote the title track.

"I had talked to Darren [Aronofsky] about Springsteen's Nebraska album. It's an emotional record, but it's quite restrained -- it keeps the emotion at a distance. I thought that this was the character that Randy Robinson was. That led me towards the guitar" (The fact that the film is set in New Jersey didn't hurt either).

Will There Be A 'Wrestler' Soundtrack CD?
We've been asking for weeks if a rock-centric soundtrack to "The Wrestler" is being released, but so far we haven't heard anything concrete. As previously mentioned in our original review, the film does feature Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child O' Mine" (a track that Mickey Rourke personally procured from Axl Rose), Quiet Riot's "Bang Your Head") and Ratt's "Round and Round," and a boatload of '80s metal and rock classics, but it was impossible to mark them all down in the credits (and some were covers from new bands, but a lot of the music was written into the original script and we marked down all the songs). The L.A. rock band Rhinobucket does have a song in the film as well, but the title of the track is unknown right now. We'd love a soundtrack disc to come out, but we're betting clearing a lot of well-known '80s rock and metal classics isn't an easy thing to do, especially for a small, low-budgeted film like this one.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/12/clint-mansell-talks-about-using-gnrs.html

Video of Slash commenting on the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yfol0jndcc

You can hear the music on Clint Mansell's MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/mansellclint

[Falcon]

There's a small Slash era GNR reference in the official theatrical trailer, around 1:30 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-GFxjTyV0

[Mr Rage]

"Cobain runied everything, 90's sucked" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Axl Rose, Bruce Springsteen lend Mickey Rourke music for ?The Wrestler?


Despite his ?years in the wilderness,? Mickey Rourke is a pretty well-connected guy.

Throughout our conversation he is profane, very funny and casually drops in a ?Francis Coppola? anecdote here, a ?Sean Penn? story there.

In fact, in the course of our 15 minutes together,  he also manages to throw in references to  Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, ?Chris? Walken and Harvey Keitel (the last four being his fellow alumnus from legendary NYC acting school, Actors Studio).

His friends are not restricted to the movie world either. During the making of his latest movie, ?The Wrestler,? the former boxer pulled in a favour from old buddy Axl Rose of seminal 80s rockers  ?Guns N Roses,?  who lent him one of the band?s  songs ?Sweet Child O? Mine?  for the soundtrack of the film.

?Axl Rose is a good friend of mine and actually, when I used to box, I used to come out to ?Sweet Child O? Mine,? but on our $5.5 million budget we couldn?t afford that music so he gave it to me,? said Rourke, ?So that was something really special.?

Rourke was probably pretty glad to be able to help out. Director Darren Aronofsky insisted on having Rourke in the lead in place of the bankable Nicolas Cage.  Rourke?s previous bad boy antics on set meant he was almost unemployable in Hollywood for 15 years and Aronofsky?s choice caused the film?s budget to be slashed by more than $10 million.

But Rourke?s help on the music front didn?t stop at ?Sweet Child O? Mine? ? he asked another rock legend, Bruce Springsteen, to write a song for the movie.

?I wrote Bruce Springsteen a letter,? Rourke said, ?A very personal letter about my character and about me and about how the character and me maybe had some things in common and would you think about writing us a song.

?And he wrote us a very f**kin? beautiful f**kin? song.?

As ?The Wrestler? is tipped for success in the approaching awards season, it looks like the former bad boy is finally coming in from the cold.



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