A reminder of just why we love movie scores.
Everyone can remember where they were when they first saw the first STAR WARS movie in the theater.
I cannot help but attach this video as well, which has the full and true opening scene.
A wonderful theme by a wonderful composer, strong, true and appropriate. You gasped when that massive, incredible STAR DESTROYER passed overhead, and it just kept coming and coming and coming.
One cannot forget the IMPERIAL MARCH from Star Wars.
Nor can one forget the Magnificent Seven theme.
Here is Jerry Goldsmith’s take on Star Trek, the motion picture.
Then there is John Sturges score for The Great Escape.
Further, there is darkness, via Herrmann and the Taxi Driver theme.
Herrmann’s score for “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” 1951.
Then there was the Louis and Bebe Barron soundtrack for “Forbidden Planet,” an incredible film that was far ahead of its time.
They were collectively way ahead of their time.
Jerry Goldsmith and his score for Patton.
The new age of composers would now include Ramin Djawadi.
As well as the title for BANSHEE by Methodic Doubt.
Strong, sharp, memorable themes they are all. But I personally cannot forget:
Lalo Schifrin rocked.
There are so many more.
What are your favorites?
BZ
one of the reasons i quit going to movies is the soundtrack. rather than be in the background and support the movie, they became loud and obscure the movie. i have two from before that happened.
the theme from “The Longest Day” is not unlike that of “Patton” in supporting the movie.
second, a movie that was nothing without the soundtrack and great fun with it, “Smokey and the Bandit”
Three excellent points. And a question.
I know I’m older now, but it seems to me that in movies and on television/cable/streaming, the music frequently overpowers dialogue to the point where I sometimes can’t discern the conversation. Am I out of bounds here?
BZ
nope, not out of bounds. my feelings exactly. the best way that i can describe it is that it seems to me that by some recording trick the music has been moved from the background, where it supports and enhances, to the foreground where it covers up dialogue.
i no longer watch most things that are newer than about 1990