From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

My guest composer, John Frizzell, I think has a really unique way of scoring

films. You look at the wide and very range of films from Alien Resurrection to one of my

favorites, the prize whenever it defines Ohio to score for his new film, horror film, The Reaping.

He has a way of finding the emotional high notes and making these play as sub-themes

throughout the scores. Another of my favorite of your scores, of course, is James Dean. First of all, John,

thanks so much for doing this. Thanks. It's a pleasure to be here. One of the things I love so

much about that James Dean score, we can start with that. It's a television movie directed by

Mark Rydell, is that it really is sort of about loneliness, that score, isn't it?

Yeah. Mark knew Dean and talked to me at great length about his real inner workings of his mind

and about what he perceived him as feeling and what the film was really about.

And we came up with this trumpet that would sort of be who he, what he felt like.

And it was really a lot about the music that he might have listened to in the time,

and a lot about bop and a lot about jazz.

And really sort of feeling is sort of like a harder version to me or Chad Baker in that trumpet notes.

Certainly there's a parallel to the lives and to, I think, the anguish that you see in those two amazing artists.

But just a real sort of sense of melancholy in that score, yet it defines Ohio.

It's a very different kind of score, wasn't it?

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of relentless optimism.

Just sort of, I'm, you know, devil may care.

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