Music in Home Alone
Music plays a vital role in the movies that we love. Oftentimes, though, we don;t even notice it. Background music helps to convey a mood- it can tell us something ominous is about to happen, or let us know if a person can be trusted or not.
That’s exactly what the music in Home Alone does with Old Man Marley. When we first meet him we hear “Dier Irae,” a a Gregorian chant from the 11th century- if that’s not scary to a kid, we don’t know what is! After Kevin has a conversation with him, the music changes to the well-known and loved “Carol of the Bells.”