Inappropriate and Untimely Rat-a-tat Music

[Twokeets]

I may be the only one for whom this is a peeve, but I just had to gripe a little--I truly hate the goofy electronic rat-a-tat "music" that starts up the second some movies have ended, especially if the movie happens to be moving, sad, heavy. I just watched The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson, for instance--so moving, so touching, it even had me in tears. Then the moment it ends, what do I hear but the obnoxious generic TCM rat-a-tat whatever it is. This happened at the end of Bergman's Seventh Veil too. What an annoying thing to hear. Can't TCM come up with some different interludes?

[Mr. Gorman]

TCM thinks that's what 'modern audiences' want to hear.   This kind of 'rat-a-tat' electronic junk that is supposedly 'music' . . . irritating isn't it? 

Perhaps this electronic waste product could be replaced by something tuneful and/or less annoying.  Would be nice.  

[Fausterlitz]

2 hours ago, Twokeets said:

Bergman's Seventh Veil

...in which Death lures his unsuspecting victims by performing the Dance of the Seven Veils   😉

[brianNH]

How about a moment or two of silence when the movie ends?  

I agree, this really is a mood killer.  A channel devoted to the appreciation of film should know better.  Shame.

[Vautrin]

Or Bennett's The Seventh Seal. Just as the  seventh  seal is about  to  be revealed it is eaten  by  a polar bear. Bummer.

[Twokeets]

Good grief--I meant Bergman's Virgin Spring. The "music" is still obnoxious, though. That movie involves the death of a young girl by violence. The last thing I wanted to hear at the end was the electronic rat-a-tat.

[Sepiatone]

Could you find and post examples of what you mean?  I don't recall any electronic music in any early Bergman films.

Sepiatone

[Twokeets]

Maybe I didn't describe it right--I'm referring to the music that TCM plays after the film has ended, when they show what's coming up next or whatever. I always find it very jarring. It takes me right out of the mood I'm feeling from the movie I just watched.

[Sepiatone]

OK.  I at first thought you were referring to some "rat-a-tat" type music IN the movie.  I don't find what TCM does as inappropriate since the movie is over and we are, in a sense, moving on.  And some might find it helpful in waking them up when the movie ends.   

And besides, referring to some of the movies you mentioned, WHY would you WANT to remain in the mood you're feeling from the movie.  Especially if it's a somewhat disturbing or depressing story?

Sepiatone

[Twokeets]

I guess it just feels a little abrupt sometimes. How about something  gentle to ease you back into reality--something with palm trees and the sound of waves? Just kidding, but the rat-a-tat music always feels like I got drenched with a bucket of cold water!

[brianNH]

I just wonder "Why the need to immediately fill this time with noise?"  What have they got to do that's so doggone important they can't let a piece of art rest a moment or two.  I could do without all the self-promotion commercials they run patting each other on the backs all the time.   There's something to be said for allowing ourselves to return to our own real world and that a silent pause, of only a few seconds really, can help bring us back.  

They must be afraid that some 23-year-old is going to instantaneously flip to another channel if TCM doesn't announce that we're on to the next bit, so don't run away!  

I always know when a commercial station is at least serious enough abut its product when it runs full-screen end credits at normal speed when a show or movie ends.  There actually are a couple of channels that operate this way.  I'm a credits reader, myself, so I appreciate their efforts to show this part of the program.