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Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan and scored by David Julyan. The screenplay was written by Nolan and based on his younger brother Jonathan's short story 'Memento Mori'. Julyan has acknowledged several synthesized soundtracks that inspired him, such as Vangelis's Blade Runner and Hans Zimmer's The Thin Red Line. While composing the score, Julyan created different, distinct sounds to differentiate between the color and black-and-white scenes: "brooding and classical" themes in the former, and "oppressive and rumbly noise" in the latter. Since he describes the entire score as "Leonard's theme", Julyan says, "The emotion I was aiming at with my music was yearning and loss. But a sense of loss you feel but at the same time you don't know what it is you have lost, a sense of being adrift." User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
