Moonlight Graham Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 List your favorite original film scores, and/or post your favorite individual score songs. There are so many to list. some of my favorite overall scores: Dances With Wolves Braveheart Rudy everything Star Wars E.T. Jurassic Park Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie That's just the tip. Here's a couple songs i love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JusB0GbbkV8&tracker=False Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
Moonlight Graham Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) This is an amazing soundtrack few have ever heard of, from the documentary Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (great doc by the way, amazing atomic test footage), score by William Stromberg, performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVWXBhuVXI&tracker=False Edited March 10, 2011 by Moonlight Graham Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
DogOnPorch Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nynMR6AZ8Rc Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
fellowtraveller Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nynMR6AZ8Rc The Mission Lawrence of Arabia Quote The government should do something.
M.Dancer Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Mama Mia Quote RIGHT of SOME, LEFT of OTHERS If it is a choice between them and us, I choose us
M.Dancer Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Network Quote RIGHT of SOME, LEFT of OTHERS If it is a choice between them and us, I choose us
M.Dancer Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Mama Mia The Birds Quote RIGHT of SOME, LEFT of OTHERS If it is a choice between them and us, I choose us
DogOnPorch Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
BubberMiley Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Anything by Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo, Twilight Zone, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver... Quote "I think it's fun watching the waldick get all excited/knickers in a knot over something." -scribblet
Bitsy Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Anything by Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo, Twilight Zone, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver... Total agreement; the other Bernstein (unreleated) Elmer was another of my favorites: To Kill a Mockinbird, The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, and Ghostbusters. My favorite of all time...Gone with the Wind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSMFAkJpbA Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4TAgdS_Xw Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
Moonlight Graham Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Scores, not soundtracks peoples! Instrumentals. DoP i've never loved & hated a song so much in a long time. Edited March 11, 2011 by Moonlight Graham Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
August1991 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) The MissionAgreed.Almost anything by Ennio Morricone. I went to see Bulworth (terrible movie) simply because Warren Beatty got Morricone to do the soundtrack. My favourite Morricone soundtracks? ---- If Shakespeare, Dickens, Hugo, Balzac or Zola were alive today, they would be writing film scripts for Hollywood. Similarly, if Mozart or Beethoven were alive, they would be composing movie soundtracks. I sometimes wonder how artists of the past, if brought to the present, would react to modern technology. I reckon that Mozart and Hugo would have loved cinema. It's a technology made for their talents. And then I wonder about possible future technologies, and whether any artists today will survive. Mozart is still used as a soundtrack composer. Edited March 9, 2012 by August1991 Quote
kimmy Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Yuck, that Gone With The Wind piece is among the most wretched things I have heard since the last time I stepped on Shadow's tail. Sappy violin schmaltz. And that dude with the banjo kinda made me want to kill something. John Williams, Ennio Morricone. Two composers whose music has transcended the films they're in and become parts of our culture in their own right. You can play a few bars of "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" theme, and everyone (even people who haven't actually seen the movie) recognize the tune and know what's being referenced and understand what the music means. Likewise the theme from Jaws or the Imperial March from Star Wars. There are many other film scores that I think are extraordinary. The music from Requiem for a Dream is more widely recognized and admired than the movie itself. I was just mentioning the scores from Tron and The Social Network in other threads. Pan's Labyrinth has a haunting soundtrack. Hans Zimmer -- Black Hawk Down -- blends an alien, foreign sound with the discord of war. Music to knock stuff over to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zmoXDBc_M Wojciech Kilar -- Bram Stoker's Dracula -- dark, brooding, menacing, sensuous, mysterious... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7sjUfwGd8 -k Quote (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Friendly forum facilitator! ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
bush_cheney2004 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Scores, not soundtracks peoples! Instrumentals. WTF? A Hard Day's Night was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Screenplay (Alun Owen), and Best Score (Adaptation) (George Martin). Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
Moonlight Graham Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Posted March 11, 2011 WTF? A Hard Day's Night was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Screenplay (Alun Owen), and Best Score (Adaptation) (George Martin). Say whaaaa??? Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
Bitsy Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Yuck, that Gone With The Wind piece is among the most wretched things I have heard since the last time I stepped on Shadow's tail. Guess it is a generational thing Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Say whaaaa??? Don't feel too bad...George Martin did not win the Oscar that year...it went to My Fair Lady. And yes Bitsy, it must be a generational thing! Edited March 11, 2011 by bush_cheney2004 Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
DogOnPorch Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 Yuck, that Gone With The Wind piece is among the most wretched things I have heard since the last time I stepped on Shadow's tail. -k Kitty? Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
Bitsy Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 And yes Bitsy, it must be a generational thing! No doubt , I seem to encounter that frequently. Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 No doubt , I seem to encounter that frequently. Hehe...youth is wasted on the young. Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
kimmy Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Guess it is a generational thing Here's what happened: I clicked to open your link in a different tab and continued reading in the current page, so the music was playing but I wasn't looking at the video. And without the piocture, the music seemed so generic that it conveyed nothing at all to me. Violins whirring without any real melody. It could have accompanied a deer in a meadow, a boat setting sail, the sun setting on a little farmhouse, whatever . And only when I hear her choking do I start to suspect that the scene isn't any of those generic scenes at all. And then she delivers the famous "God as my witness!" speech. And I thought: wait, they've got sun setting on a farmhouse music for the "God as my witness!" speech? What a disconnect! The music just didn't match the emotion of the scene at all. To me, an effective musical score helps set the emotional tone for the scene. I honestly think that scene would have been better with no music at all than it would have been with the generic whirring violins. Kitty? yep -k Quote (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Friendly forum facilitator! ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
Scotty Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) Scores, not soundtracks peoples! Instrumentals. The opening to The Bridge at Remagen was terrific, melded so well with the visuals, very stirring, went well with both the military theme and the drama of refugees. You have to skip to the 5:50 mark to start as there was some action before the titles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swMu5GTjGR8 And lest we forget how much better a score can be than a movie... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLPnk9-6MM Edited March 13, 2011 by Scotty Quote It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy
Scotty Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) And let's not forget these classic western scores.. Edited March 13, 2011 by Scotty Quote It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy
Scotty Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 Elmer Bernstein, not as well known as his Leonard, and not related to him, but had a way with music. Quote It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy
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