‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Composer Son Lux Breaks Down the Film’s Most Memorable Cues, From the Fanny Pack Scene to the Bagel Vortex
variety.comA.D. Amorosi With Son Lux – the composing trio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” – nominated for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (“This is a Life” with Mitski and David Byrne) at the 95th Academy Awards, analyzing the stunning complexities of their emotional score is key.
To go with Daniels’ (the single name used for director-writers Kwan and Scheinert) mosaic-like vision of familial bonding, Son Lux’s Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang dissected over 100 musical cues, rearranged into 49 detailed tracks. “Nothing’s binary in ‘EEAaO’, each character is not one character,” said Lott. “The inherent challenge was to create themes that support the disconnect… but make the movie feel as one.” Son Lux discusses their five most memorable cues and how they were achieved.
All expectations built within the film’s first 10 minutes get abandoned with this scene,” said Lott. Son Lux’s challenge was to pay homage to classic martial arts cinema without “traditional Chinese music,” and achieved this by accident. “I was recording basslines for a different song, using software removing the sound of the studio… then sped it up for a hyper-realized vision,” said Bhatia.
Then, Bhatia wrote additional melodies at quarter-speed with Lott building out its orchestration adding strings, with Chang drumming. “Ke Huy Quan’s character is fast, with finesse.
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