I think a good example is the movie Brother Bear. (Spoilers if you haven't seen it.)
There's this scene where the main character has to explain to the cub that he killed his mum. It's obviously a pretty serious scene - everything's dark and grim and serious, the bear is sad, the cub is nervous, and then...
Randy Fucking Newman starts bleating over the top of the entire scene with a SAD SONG about HOW SAD IT IS and OH THE BEARS ARE SAD and GOSH EVERYONE BE SO SAD!!!! This is instead of just letting the characters and their actors do the scene. It really obviously smacks of someone walking in mid production and going MAKE THIS SADDER. MORE SAD MUSIC.
Cheap, manipulative, and not even subtle. Also Randy Newman sucks. :I
Re: Can someone please explain to me
There's this scene where the main character has to explain to the cub that he killed his mum. It's obviously a pretty serious scene - everything's dark and grim and serious, the bear is sad, the cub is nervous, and then...
Randy Fucking Newman starts bleating over the top of the entire scene with a SAD SONG about HOW SAD IT IS and OH THE BEARS ARE SAD and GOSH EVERYONE BE SO SAD!!!! This is instead of just letting the characters and their actors do the scene. It really obviously smacks of someone walking in mid production and going MAKE THIS SADDER. MORE SAD MUSIC.
Cheap, manipulative, and not even subtle. Also Randy Newman sucks. :I