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The Academy Award nominated soundtrack for Defiance is extraordinary. Joshua Bell plays the violin to James Norton Howard’s music.  The collaboration is stupendous. The violin is a character in itself and so much part of the Eastern Europe culture that the film could not be without.  I had a chance to chat with Joshua the other day and this is what he had to say about the movie soundtrack.

Kenna: Why do you think the violin reaches the soul of a movie or the emotions of a movie so well?  

Joshua: Like the human voice, the sound of the violin seems to go straight to the listener’s heart.  The violin was a very much a part of the culture of Eastern Europe and so it was appropriate for it to be integrated into the film. 

Kenna: How much did you and James Norton Howard collaborate on the soundtrack?  How was the process of the collaboration carried out? 

Joshua:  I went into the studio with James and the orchestra and director Ed Zwick. The part was written for me already, but I enjoyed helping him tweak the violin part here and there.  I was pleased that James decided to use the violin so prominently in the film. Even playing my small part in the telling of this remarkable story was a privilege.

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Edward Zwick, director of Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai, brings you a film based on a true story called Defiance. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell star in the film about three Jewish brothers who escape from Poland during World War II.  They find refuge in the dense surrounding forest they have known since childhood. There they fight the Nazi’s. Whispers spread of their battles and more people (men and women, young and old) join them in their battle for freedom.

Zwick’s creative brilliance can be seen in the trailer. Watch the trailer and you will see that Defiance is a movie worth seeing, which opens December 12, 2008.   

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