by zagor 44 Replies latest social entertainment
Someday the pop song will be removed from movie music and will, once again, be replaced by wonderful orchestral music. Until this cycle repeats itself I won't be buying any new soundtracks for quite a while.
Oh! I hope not! Everybody aren't old school music film fanatics! Let music keep changing with time! That's life!
I'm an old fart too....
Zulu...John Barry
Ben-Hur...
The Alamo...John Wayne's
Lawrence of Arabia
Magnificent Seven... and so on....
Oh Terry can I come round and visit your collection one day! Ennio Morricone and Hans Zimmer still do some pretty impressive movie scores. What about Hannibal for instance?
Oh Terry can I come round and visit your collection one day! Ennio Morricone and Hans Zimmer still do some pretty impressive movie scores. What about Hannibal for instance?
Ennio Morricone is one of the last of the great Silver Age composers. He has score well over 400 films with some of the most incredibly creative, novel and memorable scores ever!
Hans Zimmer is a big talent. However, he has been breeding a technology based formula school of scoring that has spawned imitators without a soul who now flourish.
Where GLADIATOR succeeded (with the keening woman's voice) there are dozens of scores with that same gimmick which fail with it.
Yes, Crumpet, you are welcome to any score I have in my possession. Name a title and I'll upload it for you on YOUSENDIT.COM
You are more than welcome.
The Circle of Life - http://youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc
Where GLADIATOR succeeded (with the keening woman's voice) there are dozens of scores with that same gimmick which fail with it.
Did you see my thread on the 300 where I said the same thing - it copied the whole Gladiator sound.
I recently heard the soundtrack to Millers Crossing - I would love that one. I never new the famous movie trailer music was a score in itself!
Who did the soundtrack to The English Patient? Another favourite of mine!
Thanks so much for the offer of downloads - I have never downloaded anything before and am not sure I have a fast enough connection speed but I'm definitely game to try!
Out of Africa,
Terry,
love this soundtrack too.
Grease, Pulp Fiction, Harold and Maude (Cat Stevens music)
Music that evokes the film it was created for is not a unique catagory. The James Bond theme is not something you put the headphones on for but it will instantly bring the 007 movies to mind, good, bad, or forgetable. My first thoughts were the themes from Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago. Both are David Lean films and the beautiful music brings back images and atmosphere from the films. As a change of pace, try Dueling Banjos from Deliverance. Takes you right back to a great movie and is good music to boot.
My fave film composer would be Ennio Morricone.
A very close second would be Elmer Bernstein....his scores for various film-noir classics of the 50s and 60s were beyond compare and still resonate today....
Useless information .....I clean the office of Craig Armstrong...he wrote music for "moulin rouge", "world trade centre" and "Ray" amongst others
