Music of the Heart

And he was in need of money, so he went back to the horror well.

In fact, in his entire career, which lasted from 1972 to 2011, he only made one mainstream film that was not horror, and that was 1999's Music of the Heart.

Oh, no. It's actually really good.

It's a biopic of a music teacher in New York who went out of her way to create a music program for inner city kids and taught them how to play like horns and saxophone and like orchestral stuff.

So this movie called

Music of the Heart, which won Academy Awards, but nobody saw it because they thought of him as the Nightmare Before Elm Street guy, the scream guy.

And they're like, well, I ain't going to see you.

This ain't a horror.

Julianne Moore was nominated as Sarah Miles for The End of the Affair, another movie that everybody's forgotten about.

And Meryl Streep nominated for Music of the Heart as Roberta Guaspari, another movie that everybody has forgotten about.

Right off the bat, if you can't tell, I think we should get rid of those three at the bottom because I kind of take issue of when somebody's nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress in a movie that just is not, doesn't have any imprint on pop culture.

It happens a lot.

It's not very good and is pretty much just recognizing a famous person who does a good job, but in this kind of shitty movie.

Tumbleweeds was Gavin O'Connor making a movie before he started making really solid shoot them up and also sports movies and then he made this movie about a mother with a knack for bad relationships that keeps uprooting her daughter it's just like yeah it's just not very good and nobody cares about it meryl streep and music of the heart this was wes craven taking a break from freddy krueger how crazy is

that stuff i was gonna say

the same thing it's wild He made Music of the Heart, which is a movie about a divorced white woman who becomes an East Harlem school teacher.

good.

Again, it's like – I love how they attach – remember Wes Craven did Music from the Heart or some Meryl Streep movie? And you're like, ooh, God.

But again, John Carpenter did things that were kind of out of his – wheelhouse too anyways i'm just saying uh zakes mckay he was in body parts um as the detective yeah we broke down body parts way back when it might have been a pick i feel like it might

have been a cam sully pick i think it was yeah it was a cam sully pick and he was great in that he's fucking he's amazing in this my personal favorite role is uh is in dust devil Richard Stanley oh yeah that's uh he's great in that but dude I was telling Myra because she watched it with me and she fucking loved this movie she'd seen it all the time as a kid re-watched it now fucking loved it we both had a blast with it but I told her I was like he is one of my favorite people to watch on screen and uh yeah for me it's Dust Devil um but yeah he's great in body parts as well

And then most famously in 1999, after Scream was a big hit, he took all of that capital he had with the studios, and literal capital as well, and had become obsessed with this Oscar-winning documentary from 1995 called Small Wonders, which is about a violin teacher teaching inner-city kids to play violin.

and like kind of cashed all his chips on making that, which is the Meryl Streep film, Music of the Heart.

It's like you see that he was trying to escape that trap that he had set for himself in various ways, but always kind of like just falling back on what he could do best.

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Yeah,

Music of the Heart, especially.

Yeah, hilarious and scary, that movie.

Some would agree with half of

Maybe so.

I've never seen it.

I've seen most of Wes Craven's horror movies, but I have avoided seeing Music of the Heart.

Dave picked

Wes Craven made some really... interesting character pieces.

You made a film with Meryl Streep at one point, Music from the Heart.

So you've got these directors that go off and do this quirky stuff.

And then they come back reinvigorated when they go into genre films.

It was a project he was...

He was trying to get made for a long time, Music of the Heart.

But even behind the camera, we have quite a number of big... of big figures within the industry.

And I would probably look at, you know, if we wanted to identify the biggest, I would look at the composer for this film.

Oh yeah.

I, uh, I can, uh, I can, I can see where you're coming from.

And, uh, I, I believe, um, most, uh, you know, most, most people reacted, uh, I would say, uh, like, like you were describing, um, uh, and uh but he was very proud of it it didn't really again didn't really seem at least uh on paper to change anything much for him because he would uh promptly go back to horror and continued having all the same difficulties he had prior to Music of the Heart.

Apparently, story has it that Meryl Streep actually sort of protected him and his vision and made it so that he could direct and cut the film as he saw fit.

And I mean, there were even times where he stepped outside of horror.

He did Music of the Heart in 1999.

Yeah.

With Meryl Streep.