For many reasons. The perfect match. The sense of time and British noir that it evokes. The audacity of using a harpsichord for Jazz


You can not talk about movie themes without including Bernard Herrmann without whom many Scorcese and Hitchcock films would not be the same

First from the original J.Lee.Thompson "Cape Fear" that Scorcese remade with Elmer Bernstein re -arranging Hermanns terrifying score.




and then Taxi Driver his avant garde/jazz masterpiece