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Mar. 17th, 2006 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjpepperSo. Movie/TV themes/scores. Which are your favorites? Which do you think are the most musically interesting? The most well matched to their movies? Why? I'm going for a musical discussion as well as a movie one.
I was tempted to exclude everything in the John Williams oevre, as I fully expect most of you to immediately be all like "Star Wars! Imperial March! Yeah Baby!" But I'd like to see some other choices.
Honestly I think my favorites currently are as follows:
Danny Elfman's main title for Spiderman. Not only is that a breathtaking example of orchestra porn, it seamlessly switches between 2/4 and 6/8 time periodically through the piece that just keeps the ear and the brain busy.
Klaus Badelt's entire score for Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl. Especially the during the Moonlight Serenade sequence. Very grand, very spooky at times, very rousingly swashbuckling.
Mark Knopfler's score for The Princess Bride, much for the same reasons as the above, though it trades bombast to a lighter, simpler, more humorous tone in keeping with the story. My favorite bit is actually the bit entitled "Friends" played under Fezzik and Inigo's rhyming game. The play between the low brass and the guitar capture the spirit of the two so well.
The main title for The Terminator. Granted Brad Feidel is generally a two bit hack for movie scoring (note he only seems to have ever done James Cameron movies), but this one he did right. Somehow he managed to strike the right balance between synthesizer, orchestra and odd metallic sound effects for percussion to create a theme that sticks with you almost as much as Arnie saying "I'll be back."
What do you guys think?
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I was tempted to exclude everything in the John Williams oevre, as I fully expect most of you to immediately be all like "Star Wars! Imperial March! Yeah Baby!" But I'd like to see some other choices.
Honestly I think my favorites currently are as follows:
Danny Elfman's main title for Spiderman. Not only is that a breathtaking example of orchestra porn, it seamlessly switches between 2/4 and 6/8 time periodically through the piece that just keeps the ear and the brain busy.
Klaus Badelt's entire score for Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl. Especially the during the Moonlight Serenade sequence. Very grand, very spooky at times, very rousingly swashbuckling.
Mark Knopfler's score for The Princess Bride, much for the same reasons as the above, though it trades bombast to a lighter, simpler, more humorous tone in keeping with the story. My favorite bit is actually the bit entitled "Friends" played under Fezzik and Inigo's rhyming game. The play between the low brass and the guitar capture the spirit of the two so well.
The main title for The Terminator. Granted Brad Feidel is generally a two bit hack for movie scoring (note he only seems to have ever done James Cameron movies), but this one he did right. Somehow he managed to strike the right balance between synthesizer, orchestra and odd metallic sound effects for percussion to create a theme that sticks with you almost as much as Arnie saying "I'll be back."
What do you guys think?
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