The Trial (song)

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" The Trial " (title of " Trial by Puppet ") is a song from the 1979 Pink opera/rock concept The Wall . Written by Roger Waters and Bob Ezrin, it marks the climax of the album and the film.

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Plot

The song centers on the main character, Pink, who leads a life filled with emotional trauma and substance abuse has reached a critical psychological break. "The Trial" is the fulcrum on which the balance of the mental state of Pink. In the song, Pink is accused of "showing an almost human feeling". This means that Pink has committed a crime against himself by actually trying to interact with his fellow human beings, defying the mission toward self-isolation that defines most of his life. Through the course of the song, he was confronted by the main influence of his life (which had been introduced during the album): a rough school teacher, his wife, and his overprotective mother; in an animated sequence, they are described as strange caricatures. Pink's unconscious struggle for sanity is overseen by a new character, "The Judge." In Pink Floyd - The Wall and concert animation, the Judge is a giant worm for most of the songs to his verse, at which point he transforms into a giant anthropomorphic body from the waist down (bigger than a hammer lined up in "Waiting Worm "), his face was built from various elements of the buttocks and genitals. A prosecutor performs the initial part, which consists of an antagonist explaining their actions, chopping with a Pink refrain, "Crazy/Toys in the attic, I'm crazy,/Really go fishing" and "Crazy/More than a rainbow, I'm crazy,/Bar in the window. "The culmination of the trial is a judge's sentence for Pink" to be exposed before your peers "where he ordered Pink to" Knock down the wall! "

When Waters sings a dialogue for each character, he transitions into a different accent including: upper-class English dialect (prosecutors and judges), Scottish accent (headmaster) and a Northern English accent (Pink mother). For Pink wife's character she uses her normal voice in the album and the original 1980-81 tour. However, in his 2010-13 solo tour The Wall he described his wife with a distinctive French accent.

This and the following song, "Outside the Wall," are two songs on an album whose story is seen from the perspective of outsiders, especially through the three antagonists "The Trial," even though it's all in Pink's mind. The song ends with the sound of a crushed wall amidst the cry of "Breaking down the wall!", Marking the destruction of the walls of the Pink metaphor.

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Movie version

Segments in the movie version are clear and annoying visual color animation sequences; The animation was originally designed for an album concert performance, before being reworked for film adaptation. Gerald Scarfe's political cartoon directs the design for this segment. The movie segment depends not only on the visuals but also on the original music themes, music and lyrics. Pink, himself, is portrayed as an almost dead dummy doll along the sequence. Three main antagonists have spoken cartoon forms and are known individually by their roles:

• "The Schoolmaster" is dropped like a doll on a string, controlled by his arrogant wife, referring to the previous song "The Happiest Days of Our Lives." He has a long face with gray skin and two tapered hair tufts on top, making his head somewhat resemble a hammer.
• "The Wife" comes out from under the Wall, represented as a praying mantis, which has appeared during "Do not Leave Me Now."
• The mother came as an abstract and morphing image of an airplane (referring to the plane that killed Pink's father, as well as the plane Pink played in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part I)"), and then turned into a talking vulva, which then circling the Pink before turning into a caricature of a twentieth-century British mother. When his voice ended, he turned into a wall that Pink kept trapped behind
• The prosecutor is a caricatur of a Victorian lawyer. He is short and muscular, wearing a long naval dress that goes behind him, at a point above his own head, just as he leaps onto the "wall" (described as composed of white bricks, as on the album cover). The characteristic of his face is sometimes greatly exaggerated; depending on what he said. For example, when he describes Pink's allegations, saying that Pink has been experiencing "feelings... feelings that are almost human," his face moves toward the camera and considers a horrible expression of disgust and disgust.
• The judge is described as a gigantic buttock - complete with two back-facing legs, anus for the mouth (with a terrible sound), and a scrotum for the chin - wearing a judge wig.

After a clip montage of the movie that was shown before it was played, there was a long moment of silence before the wall began to crumble, accompanied by the screams of pain and terror from Pink.

The animation sequence was used in the 1980/81 concert version of The Wall with Waters singing the song in front of The Wall as the animated "The Trial" played behind it on the wall. It was later used again in concert versions of the 2010-13 tour, albeit with a "crazy" modified distraction to incorporate CGI (most obviously the replacement of floating leaf sequences with one of the flawed humanoid whips out toward the audience, surrounded by graffiti hate messages).

There are also a number of differences in the 1980/81 Live animated version compared to the 1982 film. Some scenes are re-recorded to fit the wider screen, while in many other cases (ie Crazy interval most scenes with Judges) stretched to fit the widescreen format, The first scene of the Trial set-up creature no cuts in the live version; it is a long tracking taken through many characters in the scene while the worms form the stage. In other cases there are also scenes that are completely removed as the large crowd of humanoids cheer for the Judge to "shit on him", as well as the brick turns into the character of Wife/Mother/Headmaster after the verse of Judge, abruptly cuts into Pink Memories ; some of these scenes look intact in the new 2012 tour.

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Composition

The song is famous for his distinctive voice by Waters, as well as his magnificent musical style, which is more like an operetta than a rock song; it's entirely unchallenged, without traditional rock elements until David Gilmour's guitar begins when the verdict is pronounced, along with the heavy drum Nick Mason.

Musically, the structure of "The Trial" is similar to the previous song on the album, "Run Like Hell," with the same chord order from E minor, F, back to E minor, C, and B. However, there are differences between the two songs , such as very different instrumentation. The bass alternates between the root (E) and the fifth (B) of the minor E chord, and when the chord turns into F Major, the bass remains the same, resulting in strong tension and dissonance, since the relationship between F chords and B tones is the tritone, musical interval the most unstable.

In the last verse (Judge Verdict), the electric guitar is distorted in, playing the main motif of the album, the melody was first heard on "Another Brick in the Wall" (and recently replicated in outro to "Waiting for the Worms"). Here, the theme is in the E minor key (indeed, most of the expression of this theme has been in E minor, rather than the minor D of "Another Brick in the Wall"), and as in the previous song from the album, "Hey You," alternates between E minor (with tones E, F ?, G, F?) And A minor (A, B, C, B). However, while the "Hey You" section alternates between the minor chords E and A minor, here the overall sound tone of the orchestration really alternates between E minor and F major, according to the introduction of that section. This results in further tension, because the guitar, in an aggressive, distorted tone, begins on the main third of the second chord, rather than the roots as the listener will hope - and concludes on the tritone, B. This, combined with the fixed bass line at E and B in this section, resulting in a significantly tense and unstable harmonic condition, leading to the effects of explosive sounds from falling down walls.

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Concert and version

• In the Berlin show, before The Wall collapsed, it briefly "became" the Berlin Wall, building graffiti like the actual wall until it was pulled down.
• In a concert animation, when a Godzilla-sized judge looks toward the crowd, it seems that the "hammer lined up" fame is all lined up in his hands.
• In the movie version, animations from the stage performances are used, but certain shots (including the Master School transformed into a hammer) are drawn from the original full-frame image to the aspect ratio of 2.39: 1. The rest of the displayed animations reused original cels though expanded the background to fill cinematic images. Waters used an anamorphic version of the film for his 2010-13 tour The Wall .
• In 2009, pianist Andreas Behrendt released an instrumental version of the song.

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Personnel

• Roger Waters - vocals
• Nick Mason - bass drum, cymbal
• David Gilmour - guitar, bass guitar
• Richard Wright - piano

with:

• Vicki Brown and Clare Torry (credited only as Vicki & Clare) - backing vocals
• The New York Symphony Orchestra organized by Michael Kamen

Personnel as per Fitch and Mahon.

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Personnel (Live in Berlin)

In the 1990 Berlin show, "The Trial" contains the actors and their roles:

• The Curry Team - The Prosecutor
• Thomas Dolby - The Schoolmaster
• Ute Lemper - Pink's Wife
• Marianne Faithfull - Pink's Mother
• Albert Finney - The Judge
• Roger Waters (sound recording) - Pink

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Further reading

• Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd ed.), 2005. ISBNÃ, 1-894959-24-8.
• Pink Floyd: The Wall (Music Songbook) (1980 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, UK, ISBN 0-7119-1031-6 (USA ISBNÃ, 0-8256- 1076- 1).

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References

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External links

Source of the article : Wikipedia