Hugo Weaving will be heard singing Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ and Leonard Cohen’s ‘I’m Your Man’ in the upcoming movie ‘The Tender Hook’.
Chris Abrahams from The Necks was the musical director for the movie and recorded the soundtrack.Although the movie is set in Sydney in the 1920’s, Abrahams chose to place the two songs from outside the era in the movie.
“Jonathan and I decided very early on that the music should not be welded to the period,” Abrahams said in a statement. “Nor should the music be overtly ‘jazz’ based. To attempt a Marvin Hamlisch style, Scott Joplin-esque aesthetic, would have detracted from the film’s realism and it’s setting in pre-Harbour Bridge Sydney. This is not to say that I wasn’t influenced by the film’s time period but overall it has a more post-rock, folk sound”.
The movie is set at the time the Sydney Harbour Bridge is being built, the Liberal and Labor parties were still forming and when underworld crime was powerful in the city.
“Rather than being a re-creation of Australia’s past, The Tender Hook is, to use a Miles Davis-ism, a yester-now tale. Its a film that is complicit with the fact that it is made in 2007 but uses icons of the 20’s in a playful sort of way like using archival footage and mixing our characters into that,” says director Jonathan Ogilvie.
Weaving plays underworld figure McHeath.
The soundtrack album will be released next week.
The movie will be in cinemas on September 18.
Watch the trailer here:
