Kingsman: Secret Service - Sound

This scene from 'Kingsman: Secret Service' shows a really good use of contrapuntal music. The clip shows the protagonist (Eggsy) in a fight, in a position where he is about to die/be arrested. He contacts Merlin who then makes all the chips that were placed in people's heads blow up, meaning Eggsy can stop Valentine from making everyone in the entire world fight.

The scene in which everyone's head is being blown off their shoulders, shows a great example of contrapuntal music. The non-digetic soundtrack playing in the background juxtaposes the scene of heads exploding into fireworks. The happy music combined with the fireworks exploding into red, white and blue makes the scene seem good to the audience. This is what the producers would've wanted as they would want us to side with the good guys, and celebrate that they have almost won against Valentine, stopping him from making everyone in the world battle to the death.



This church fight scene also has an excellent choice of music. It plays 'Free bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd which is a very action packed song, making the fight scene seem thrilling and exciting to the audience. The start of the song is smoothly edited into the scene with the gun shot. This fight scene is particularly entertaining to the audience, not only for the fighting itself, but he music is a great addition to it. The dramatic music makes the audience feel involved and really put themselves in the shoes of Harry during the fight. Even though Harry is killing every single person in the church, the audience still see him as the good guy due to his actions and how the music agrees with his actions.