If you listen to the conversation Boris has with Julian, where he explains the story of The Red Shoes, it's very lyrical and stark. Actually, anything he says in that movie is worth studying:JackFavell wrote:I love that you played along to old movies! and especially that you played along to voices...that's wonderful! Oh I am watching The Red Shoes as soon as possible just to listen to Anton Walbrook, though I can probably reproduce whole sections of the movie in my head.
"Put on the red shoes and dance for us again!"
A great idea that you can use with phrases and lines is just to accentuate them in different places. Actors do this all the time and most of the good musicians do too:
Are you going with me?
Are you going with me?
Are you going with me?
A lot of the scores are inspiring as well. North by Northwest (1959) is not one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, but the score is to die for. Same thing with the looping phrase in Vertigo (1958), which I used to loop myself and solo over years ago. I was talking to Mr. ChiO about having to cover a song that I particularly hated and did not suit my style of playing at all. To make it interesting, I decided to base the solo a different Ennio Morricone theme each time.
I love all the styles you mentioned. I think the best way to create something new on your instrument is to pull from other styles (and other instruments playing within those styles) and fuse them into whatever you're playing. I get a lot of ideas from North American Indian flute playing and different music from Africa and China. It's a lot like fusion cooking where you combine several different ethnicities to put a new spin on familiar ideas.