Thilo Michael

U.N. Interstellar was her?


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So I’ve seen the new Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar yesterday! I had very mixed feelings about it and I will definitely see it again soon. The movie turned out pretty different that I had imagined and that threw me a bit off. This blog post however is not about the movie directly but about the music in it. So don’t worry: no spoilers :)

The Film Score

The film score was written by Hans Zimmer. Apparently there isn’t a reasonably successful movie that Hans Zimmer didn’t make to music to. The score was a bit repetitive but that’s okay because I liked the main theme. It reminded me a bit of the main theme of Nolan’s previous movie Inception. Anyways you can listen to an extended version of the main theme here:



I know that from somewhere…

While watching the movie I had these feeling that up until a certain point in the progression of the melody I recognized it from somewhere but in the cinema I thought it was a deja entendu.

The next day I tried playing the melody on my e-piano and suddenly realize where my deja entendu came from: U.N. Owen was her? (or Flandre’s Theme as many people call it). Flandre’s Theme is played during the extra stage boss fight in the vertical-scrolling game Touhou Project.

I made a quick recording of my findings:

I know, I know. It is barely similar. I had fun anyway :)