‘12 Angry Men’ and the music of Cuphead

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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For our latest installment of American Icons, Studio 360’s Sam Kim explores “12 Angry Men,” the courtroom drama that has inspired jurists — and Hollywood script writers — for decades. And how Kris Maddigan, a first-time video game composer, wrote a 3-hour long jazz album for the popular indie game Cuphead.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:05.9	Today on Studio 360,
0:07.9	she had to be able to identify a person 60 feet away at night without glasses.
0:14.1	You can't send someone off to die on evidence like that.
0:16.9	A movie without romance or gunshots or multiple locations.
0:21.4	Just 12 people in a room talking.
0:24.4	You want to see this boy died because you personally want it.
0:26.6	Not because of the facts.
0:27.9	You're a sadist.
0:28.9	How 12 angry men made the judicial process thrilling.
0:34.1	Plus, a video game from 2019 that plays like a game from 1980 that sounds like a cartoon from 1930.
0:44.5	I wasn't trying to write specifically for a video game.
0:47.1	I was writing big band tunes, and I was trying to make them fast and quirky enough
0:50.3	so that they would work in the game context.
0:52.3	The music of Cuphead, the first video game soundtrack to top the Billboard Jazz Charts,
0:57.9	that and more is ahead in Studio 360 right after this.
1:08.3	This is Studio 360. I'm Kernan.
1:13.1	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anneson, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:16.3	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dower.
1:18.9	I like to have the roasted chicken paste. Very well done.
1:23.3	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:25.3	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
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