Before I was a film major, I was a music major at UNT. I quickly found out that I didn’t have the skill for it, but a curiosity remained for the process of musical composition. That especially goes for movie soundtracks. It amazes me when a composer can so perfectly capture a moment in a film in a few bars of music. Alexandre Desplat’s BENJAMIN BUTTON score seems to do just that, just click on the links below to stream two exclusive songs from the soundtrack!

1.) “Benjamin and Daisy”

2.) “Growing Younger”

As Desplat tells it, the challenge of this score was conveying Benjamin’s journey as a man aging backwards:

“All the people Benjamin meets he loses quickly as they age and die while he gets younger. Because a continuous love relationship with anyone cannot work, his life is composed of heartbreaking flashes of connection. The music has to express the movement of going inexorably forward but still backwards, and the melancholia that is the essence of Benjamin’s character. The movie has everything that a film can offer to a composer: A humanistic script by Eric Roth of a man’s epic journey living his life biologically in reverse through a century, a heartbreaking love story played with intensity by two of the most glamorous and gifted actors of our times, the pulse of jazz in the city where he was born, a twist of witty humor, the metaphysical question of death, and the pure visual magic created by a genius director.”

You can purchase the soundtrack on December 16th and then watch the movie nine days later on December 25th!

Source: Concord Music Group