“It’s like there’s blood on my hands… it’s not coming off.”
Or two times where the “cold blooded” main character of their respective show allowed themselves to show emotion, and David Arnold decided that he could use the same bit of soundtrack twice…
Sarcasm aside for a moment, but I had a heart attack when I was re-watching Casino Royale yesterday, and this bit came up – which I immediately recognised as something I had heard in Sherlock recently and the association with the respective scene made me feel much sadder than this bit in the movie probably wanted me to be, and @mollydobby then helped me tracking down.
In Casino Royale, the theme is used for Vesper Lynd’s breakdown in the shower after she helped Bond to kill their assailants, and she now thinks that she has blood on her hands (which is not coming off). Bond then tenderly takes her hands and kisses the blood off of them (= first part of ^the track; video here (x)).
In BBC Sherlock, it’s the smash-the-coffin scene (= second part of ^the track).
And, listen for yourself, it is literally the same melody.
Like, if this was any other person of TPTB I would – now – immediately assume that they were just lazy and it doesn’t mean anything, but David Arnold? Really? Et tu, David???
First they re-use the The Maze track from the TAB soundtrack for the clown scene (x), and now this – which is even worse, because it’s not even the same movie universe… idek anymore.
You do know he wrote both these things, right? At this point I’m not sure if it was intentional or if they just didn’t have enough time to create something new and reused this because it fit with the rest.
So I couldn’t help myself and I kept thinking all day how the soundtracks were mirrors of each other and were both ever so sad in their themes….So I layered them equally </3
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