Disturbing Strokes

via /Film

To illustrate music's powerful influence over one's interpretation of a visual, I'm posting YouTube user Monty Propps' edit of the Diff'rent Strokes open. The original music (listen here) is replaced by tense, dissonant chamber music (originally from this movie), and the result is drastic. Originally a scene of youthful exuberance, the haunting music reimagines as dangerous and foreboding. It plays like something awful is about to happen to the family or that Mr. Drummond is about to bring ill will upon the children. Either way it's strikingly different from the original and all that's changed is music... Feels more 'Rosemary's Baby' than anything.