Editing Richard Wagner (section)

=== Influence on cinema ===
{{see also|List of films using the music of Richard Wagner}}

Wagner's concept of the use of leitmotifs and the integrated musical expression which they can enable has influenced many 20th and 21st century [[film score]]s. The critic [[Theodor Adorno]] has noted that the Wagnerian leitmotif "leads directly to [[film music|cinema music]] where the sole function of the leitmotif is to announce heroes or situations so as to allow the audience to orient itself more easily".{{sfnp|Adorno|2009|pp=34–36}} Film scores citing Wagnerian themes include the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' and [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', which both feature a version of the [[Ride of the Valkyries]];<ref>{{cite journal | last=Zenk | first=Christina | title=Die "Walküren" und kein Ende: Eine Systematisierung von Referenztypen in Filmen | journal=Archiv für Musikwissenschaft | volume=74 | issue=2 | year=2017 | issn=0003-9292 | jstor=26332326 | pages=78–102 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26332326 | access-date=19 May 2023 | language=German}}</ref> [[Trevor Jones (composer)|Trevor Jones]]'s soundtrack to [[John Boorman]]'s film [[Excalibur (film)|''Excalibur'']];{{sfn|Grant|1999}} and the 2011 films ''[[A Dangerous Method]]'' (dir. [[David Cronenberg]]) and ''[[Melancholia (2011 film)|Melancholia]]'' (dir. [[Lars von Trier]]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Giovetti |first=Olivia |date=10 December 2011 |title=Silver Screen Wagner Vies for Oscar Gold |publisher=[[WQXR-FM]] |url=http://www.wqxr.org/story/174538-silver-screen-wagner-vies-oscar-gold/ |access-date=15 April 2012 }}</ref> [[Hans-Jürgen Syberberg]]'s 1977 film ''[[Hitler: A Film from Germany]]''{{'}}s visual style and set design are strongly inspired by ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', musical excerpts from which are frequently used in the film's soundtrack.<ref>{{harvnb|Sontag|1980}}; {{harvnb|Kaes|1989|pp=44, 63}}</ref>