Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints is one of my favorite movies of all time. The music for The Boondock Saints was arranged and written by Jeff Danna who is one of my favorite composers of all time. The music is crucial and very important to the movie. In my own opinion the music makes the movie amazingly spectacular. In the opening credits, Jeff Danna uses The Blood of Cuchulainn to start out the movie. This particular song has an authentic Irish/Celtic feel. It uses traditional instruments that create a distinctive, unique, and particular Irish/Celtic sound. However, the movie is not set in Ireland. Instead it takes place in Boston, Massachusetts where there is a very large Irish population. Without the music in this movie, there would a great decline of emotion surrounding the story line. If there wasn't any music in this movie, the movie would just fall apart and be extremely uninteresting. The Boondock Saints is about two Irish lads who are "told" by god to kill the wicked. The fact that they are Irish plays a significant role in how the the music was written. In almost every single piece of music in this movie, you can find a traditional Irish/Celtic detail. During a particular scene where they kill eight men, you can really take note of the religious element to their mission. Their actions and words during this scene in combination with the extremely angelic sounding church choir singing in the background give an eerie yet somewhat peaceful feeling surrounding the multitude of deaths. Not only is the one of my favorite movies of all time, it also has one of my all time favorite scores ever written.