I never thought about the effect of soundtracks in movies until I saw something in a documentary which was meant to illustrate that. I wish I could remember what this was from, because it was amazing.

The same scene was shown about five times. It consisted of a woman standing at a bus stop. She stands there for a while, and then a guy comes along and stands at the bus stop too.

They showed this scene with no score at all, and then with a variety of others written for it. It amazed me how the exact same scene could be made to come across so many different ways just with different music. In one, you just knew the guy was going to murder her or something. In another one, you just knew they were going to fall in love. I seem to remember there was one which made me think "OK, they're spies working together or something, they're only pretending not to know each other." You could practically write the whole rest of any potential movie just from this one scene in which two people do virtually nothing -- all created within your own mind, because of the soundtrack.

Brunnen-"will get around to answering the original question after work, when there's time to think about it first"G