Somebody said he got goosebumps when listening to Hans
Zimmer’s end music to The Da Vinci Code. A
woman said that she did, too. A third person asked: ‘Why goosebumps? I don’t
get it.’
I don’t usually reply to YouTube comments because most of
them irritate the hell out of me, but I decided that that one warranted a
little thought. So that’s what I did, and wrote
I'd say that
goosebumps happen when a piece of music touches something deep inside which
we're not generally aware of. Often it has a heroic slant, especially if it
concerns a quest for something profound which is beyond the physical and
commonplace, in this case a truth which touches on the mystical.
Such a phenomenon
would pass the pragmatist by, but to a person of Romantic sensibility (note the
upper case R), it can well evoke not just goosebumps, but floods of tears. It's
about climbing the mountain and finding the answer to life, which I suppose is
why Zimmer took the music up through the keys.
That's my take on it
anyway. Others might see it differently.
Will that do from a man who is pining for a lost connection?
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