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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
this is about SOUNDTRACKS, meaning the music a composer wrote strictly for a movie, not a collection of songs someone thought would be cool to play while a certain scene was going on. shiiiiit.
that is EASY to do. That is why everyone does it.
a good soundtrack is original MUSIC for the film
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I think that what you're referring to here is the 'score'. Which is the theme, background and incidental music specially written for the film.
The 'soundtrack' is the whole audio component of a film, and includes the score, dialogue, background sounds and any other music used for dramatic or aesthetic purposes.
It's very rare these days for a film score to be released without
any additional sound from the movie incorporated into it.
But it's all relative - 'American Grafitti' would have been rubbish if someone had tried to recreate the sound of fifties America as a score, without including any contemporary 'pop' songs, but the score to 'Carwash' worked
because it was written to emulate the songs of young black '70's America.