Have you ever been caught by a moment in a movie; sat up straight after loosely hanging in the armchair for an hour… put all eating and drinking to a halt in order to entirely devote your focus to a scene? It could be within the last minutes of a good movie, the grand finale, a monologue to some special tune. It could be at the beginning of a movie, some quiet scene, that simply grabs your attention. In most cases such gripping scenes are made by the music: add some Snoop Dog to the final farewell and it goes unnoticed. I find that most of the times the music can be enjoyed after the movie, without the moving images, because it helps recall what that moment was like. I find that the pieces that stick are the ones tainted with melancholia, the ones that make you feel lonely and sad or, less often, the ones that have a satisfying climax, a burst in to the main theme. What I suggest here are no tunes from seedy, second class B-films with busty actress dancing the funky turkey to the saxophone solo of “Laying Pipe”, but more subtle ones. I could suggest you lend an ear to “Summer of 78” by Yann Tiersen (Goodbye Lenin OST) or to Puppet Love by Carter Burwell, (Being John Malkovich OST). But I chose an example of a well working movie score climax, which, I would argue, is harder to find (that is excluding John Williams). Get prepared to stand and salute (or whatever) as the main theme comes with attitude.