Movie Soundtracks: Into The Wild/Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

This week, Tyler and Greg discuss the movie soundtracks of two movies -- 2007's Into The Wild and 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.Screenplay written and directed by actor Sean Penn, Into the Wild is a telling of the true story of Christopher McCandless - an American adventurer who spent two years living nomadically and then months in the Alaskan wilderness with minimal supplies. McCandless would die of starvation, leaving behind diaries with writerly details that John Krakauer adapted into a novel.The soundtrack to this film is entirely performed and partly written by Pearl Jam's Eddie Veder. The music here is more acoustic, folksy, and autumnal. Going acoustic was not uncharted from 90s grunge heroes, but this was new for Eddie Veder in particular. His particular warble and new weathered sound fits quite well with the ethos of the film.Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a comic book adaptation, directed by music loving director Edgar Wright, where Scott Pilgrim must defeat Romona Flowers's seven evil exes in order to have his own chance at wooing her. The film is oddball -- so much so that it was hard to market and commercially failed. Yet now it's a cult hit.The soundtrack features a fair bit of music from Beck, as he wrote the songs the band in the movie would play as their own. Those songs are largely garage rock romps that really hit. The soundtrack is a mix of non-diegetic and diegetic songs from Metric, Frank Black, Broken Social Scene, and more.