CEPT Practice C2 level listen and select about a composer who writes film music

 

You hear part of a discussion about a composer who writes film music.

How does the speaker feel about Nunan’s current work? 

A cynical

B angry

C confused

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Audioscript

It’s certainly not that Nunan is untalented. In his earlier films, Lives at Sea for example, produced, when? 20 years ago and — one of my favourites — it would have been a much poorer film without the incidental music. The spectacular set pieces would have suffered from being over long. As it is, we are swept from mood to mood, changing from passion to serenity in one scene. And why this was so important was that it actually gave new layers of understanding to the viewer. We wouldn’t have got it otherwise. So I was his fiercest defender, as you may well remember, because Lives at Sea was so controversial that I felt that it needed defending; and Nunan’s work particularly so. And then other films started to come out and the suspicion began to creep up on me that he had one eye firmly on sales, which then became both eyes and that’s when a very good composer was lost to us.

The correct answer is letter A.