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Radio 3,15 Aug 2020,22 mins

Empowerment

Sound of Cinema

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Featured this week is 'Project Power', a new film starring Jamie Foxx with music by Joseph Trapanese. The film is centred around a new drug which gives its recipient super powers for up to five minutes. Matthew Sweet foregrounds the music for this and other soundtracks to films inspired by the notion of empowerment. The programme includes music from ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Code 8’, ‘Spider-Man 2’, ‘Robocop’, ‘A.I.-Artificial Intelligence’, ‘The Devil’s Advocate’, ‘The Mephisto Waltz’, ‘Carrie’, ‘The Ninth Gate’ and ‘The Umbrella Academy’. The Classic Score of the Week is Miklos Rozsa’s music for ‘The Power’. Photo credit: Alfonso Bresciani/Netflix

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