Hans Zimmer’s Thematic Scoring For ‘Inception’
This video points out the way Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien” is not only used as a key plot element for Inception. It’s also the song Hans Zimmer uses as a foundation for the entire score.
I continue to think that anything dramatic he’s scored since The Dark Knight takes from that at least a little, but the Inception score is still fantastically captivating and a great display of Zimmer’s tendency to use music for enhancing narrative detail.
The twisted electric violin sound to represent The Joker, for instance, will stick with me always:
