Trent Reznor is the leader of the renowned industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and later created his own albums of textural music. Atticus Ross composed the score for The Book of Eli, and worked with Reznor on several albums, most notably on the textural Ghosts I-IV. This type of music formed the basis for the score to David Fincher's The Social Network. Unfortunately, despite the strength of the film and the talent of the two musicians, the score is, in my opinion, compositionally and intellectually shallow and does not add anything to the film. Truly innovative and interesting electronic music can be found elsewhere. The two also collaborated on the equally dull scores for Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. Reznor did provide a rather nondescript theme for the popular video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, but the actual score (which is much more interesting, effective, and accomplished than the theme) was written by video game composer veteran Jack Wall.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (theme only, score by Jack Wall)
The Social Network
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