NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)- A movie that was shot here in Louisiana…is giving movie lovers a real theatrical experience with a LIVE orchestra.
News with a Twist Reporter Kenny Lopez takes a look at “Beasts of the Southern Wild” like you’ve never seen or heard it before!
The Oscar-nominated flick for “Best Picture”, proved its beastly strength in 2012, and now this time around it continues to flex it’s movie muscles with something very unique. For one-night only at the Saenger Theater, you can watch ‘Beasts’ and listen to the movie’s musical score with a live orchestra and local, Grammy-nominated Cajun band, Lost Bayou Ramblers.
Lost Bayou Ramblers colloborated with the film’s director, who was also nominated for an Oscar, Benh Zeitlin, and co-composer, Dan Romer along with Wordless Music for this special event.
“When you’re watching the film all the music is taken out. The live orchestra will be playing as you watch it. Wordless Music really found a way to make the technology work, and it’s very unique. It heightens the emotion of the film. So much of the mood comes from the music,” Zeitlin said.
Louis Michot, the fiddler and singer for Lost Bayou Ramblers said that this show is something to fiddle for!
“That’s an amazing colloboration, when you take a stripped down Cajun band and add it to an orchestra and put it in a movie, and now in a live show, that’s just amazing. It really adds to the immediate feeling and heightens the emotion. It’s seamless and perfect,” Michot said.
Court 13 films which made “Beasts of the Southern Wild” will be putting on a special arts, music, movies festival on November 13th and November 14th. For more information, click HERE:
Zeitlin said he’s currently working on a new film which will be shot in Louisiana and a remote island in the West Indies.
For ticket information on this once in a lifetime, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” show, click HERE:
