“I wanted to have a melody that could sound as a German march, if needed, with children singing,” Giacchino added. Giacchino’s usual routine consists of composing a suite and in this case he ran right home after the rough cut screening and composed the melody on his piano, which the director embraced immediately. Like “Jojo,” they evoke love and loss, but with this movie it was important to underscore the absurdity and horror of Jojo’s journey from fanaticism to compassion as a result of his friendship with Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), a teenage Jewish girl hiding behind a wall in his house.
You have to be a storyteller in order to be a film composer.Waititi and Giacchino had several conversations about the musical tone, with the director emphasizing the need for a simple melody and a fairy tale vibe found in the composer’s “Up” and “Ratatouille” scores.
Even the classical music I listened to growing up influenced a lot of what I did in Star Trek and in Spider-Man. So all those influences eventually came flooding back to me when I started working on things like Ratatouille, or Up, or The Incredibles, or Coco. Movies really are the one place where, as a musician, you can dip into all of the different variations and different cultures of music from around the world, because you never know what kind of movie you’re going to be working on. That was a left turn later in life, when music sort of took over. It was just something I enjoyed listening to and using in the movies that I was making. At the time, I was not thinking that this would be a tool for me to use later on. My dad had a great record collection-Martin Denny, Esquivel, Arthur Lyman, albums from Mexico, from Russia, from all over the world-and I just loved it growing up. I made tons of stop-motion movies, tons of live-action movies. That’s all I ever did, from 9 years old, all through college. Below, Michael shares his journey into making film music-and five film scores he loves (although, to him, there’s really no such thing as a true top five). He is also an Academy governor of the Music Branch. Michael Giacchino is the Oscar-winning composer behind Up, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Star Trek, and more.
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