Music and thrillers.

Music is films are very important in setting a certain mood(as very romantic knows). They can make a mood tense and scary, relaxed and care free or they can create juxtapositions that create new complex feelings and ideas completely.

 

Vertigo

The theme music in vertigo is very well composed. It's use of high pitched noises that sound reminiscent of screeching help set a very tense atmosphere. The theme music often utilizes very hypnotically repetitive sounds making the listener feel somewhat disorientated to help portray the effects that vertigo has a on a suffer. The reason that these subtly uses of sound are effective is because of how they link very well to the theme and creates and interesting atmosphere, from just listening to the sound track I felt that I was able to get a very good understanding of the film without having seen it.

James Bond

Perhaps one the most recognised spy thriller theme songs , The James Bond Theme song is very effective in setting the mood and atmosphere of the film. Similarly to vertigo the noises that are used to make the song are very high pitched and are used to set tension very well. They also both vary there tempos and volume slightly to alter the mood and atmosphere. This song also fits very well with the movies, so well that it is parodied and copied countless times by other musical composers  of spy themed films.