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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:14:18 GMT
TIE #30 ChinatownComposer: Jerry GoldsmithPoints: 71 Number of ballots: 6 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot Chinatown - Love ThemeTrivia: For the first screening, Roman Polanski took his old friend, composer Bronislau Kaper. Producer Robert Evans afterwards asked Kaper what he thought of the picture, to which Kaper replied, "It's a great film, but you have to change the music." TIE #30 SuspiriaComposer: GoblinPoints: 71 Number of ballots: 6 Highest ranking: #11 on 3 ballots Suspiria - Main ThemeTrivia: Director Dario Argento composed the creepy music with the band Goblin and played it at full blast on set to unnerve the actors and elicit a truly scared performance. #28 TitanicComposer: James HornerPoints: 72 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #5 on 1 ballot Titanic - SouthamptonTrivia: James Cameron originally wanted Enya to compose the score for the film and even went so far as to assemble a rough edit using her music. When Enya declined, Cameron hired James Horner (who had composed the music for Cameron's previous film Aliens to write the score). Horner stated that the tensions with Cameron were so high during post-production of "Aliens" that he assumed he and Cameron would never work together again. However, Cameron was so impressed with Horner's score from Braveheart that he contacted Horner, who was willing to forget the past. #27 To Kill A MockingbirdComposer: Elmer BernsteinPoints: 74 Number of ballots: 4 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot To Kill A Mockingbird - Main ThemeTrivia: The piano in Elmer Bernstein's score was played by John Williams. #26 The Last Of The MohicansComposers: Trevor Jones and Randy EdelmanPoints: 76 Number of ballots: 6 Highest ranking: #8 on 1 ballot The Last Of The Mohicans - PromontoryTrivia: When the film was pushed back from its original summer release in 1992 to September, Composer Randy Edelman was brought in to provide additional music after Trevor Jones could not return to the film due to other commitments after having written about fifty minutes of music to rework his score from the film's original three hour cut. Edelman would provide about twenty-eight-and-a-half minutes. Edelman was then in charge of assembling the music for the new cut of the film which clocked in at about 114 minutes which included Jones' music, Edelman's, and all the source material by Daniel Lanois and Clannad. Jones and Edelman did not work together on the score which is why their names on the credits are separate from one another.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:16:30 GMT
I'll do single posts for each score from now on. I'll take a 10-minute break for a coffee and resume the presentation!
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 21:20:15 GMT
Honestly shocked that Rocky is so low. It's got the iconic fanfare of course, but it's remarkable how the theme is both fist-pumpingly invigorating but also lyrical, tender, and melancholy in the piano passages. And we hear an actual fugue during the climactic match... who else would have done that?! Should be in the top 10 based on "Going the Distance" alone.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 21:21:58 GMT
Not overly enamoured with this bunch, though Chinatown and Mohicans are two of those great scores I just had no room to vote for.
Really solid stuff overall so far. I'll check out the rest tomorrow.
I'm assuming at this point I can count The Burbs and Return to Oz out.
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Post by Viced on Oct 25, 2018 21:23:45 GMT
Glad Mohicans got a solid placement. Maybe my favorite blend of film/music ever...
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 25, 2018 21:24:27 GMT
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:25:56 GMT
#25 The MissionComposer: Ennio MorriconePoints: 79 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot The Mission - Gabriel's OboeTrivia: Ennio Morricone believed that the film worked perfectly without any music, but director Roland Joffé insisted that he write a music score.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:26:55 GMT
Not overly enamoured with this bunch, though Chinatown and Mohicans are two of those great scores I just had no room to vote for. Really solid stuff overall so far. I'll check out the rest tomorrow. I'm assuming at this point I can count The Burbs and Return to Oz out. The Burbs was very close to making the top 50.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:29:43 GMT
#24 The UntouchablesComposer: Ennio MorriconePoints: 83 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #6 on 2 ballots The Untouchables - The Strength of The RighteousTrivia: Ironically, Morricone didn’t like these pieces at all; in a 2001 interview with Adam Sweeting of The Guardian he recalled that De Palma asked him to write “a triumphal piece for the police,” but that he was initially reluctant to do so. He went on to say that he “wrote nine different pieces in total,” but urged De Palma not to choose “the seventh, because it was the worst”. Of course, the seventh one is the one in the film and, on this occasion, I agree with De Palma’s taste over Morricone’s.
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 25, 2018 21:32:07 GMT
Nino Rota > Ennio Morricone
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Post by Viced on Oct 25, 2018 21:32:45 GMT
Ennio the GOAT absolutely slaying. Legend.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:36:34 GMT
#23 Under The SkinComposer: Mica LeviPoints: 84 Number of ballots: 8 Highest ranking: #10 on 1 ballot Under The Skin - Lipstick To VoidTrivia: Certain sounds are distorted and perverted through different techniques, like slowing down. For me, the use of midi strings alongside real strings explained the situation of real and fake and felt like a good mix of synthetic and real. Percussion strings and fake strings were the main bulk of the score, which also has a lot of cymbal rolls—those are meant to represent the cosmos and nature. There’s the seducing tune that’s like [the character’s] make-up. She sort of plays that to reel [her victims] in. Then you’ve got the sense of love and emotions, which comes across in the form of a triad, which are these fake synthesized strings. And then you’ve got this impossible, alien, complex life form that’s erratic and goes on and on.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 25, 2018 21:38:26 GMT
I don’t much like it. It is what that movie felt like to me, raising interesting ideas but ultimately accomplishing nothing and leaving me distant.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:41:10 GMT
#22 E.T. - The Extra-TerrestrialComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 85 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #10 on 2 ballots E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Flying ThemeTrivia: "I remember working very hard on that flying theme. I was concerned about getting just the right, soaring melody, which for me as a musician was a serious challenge. Here were kids flying on bicycles over the moon - completely believably - and what would the orchestra say? What would the leaps of melody be? What could possibly be good enough to accompany a film like this?"
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Post by stephen on Oct 25, 2018 21:41:47 GMT
So glad Horner's best score made it in.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 25, 2018 21:41:57 GMT
Too low.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 25, 2018 21:42:43 GMT
So glad Horner's best score made it in. It deserved better than 28.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 21:44:23 GMT
E.T. is one of those cases for me where the score actually elevates the movie rather than just complementing it. I'm not really sure how much I'd like the film if it weren't for the score tbh.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:45:09 GMT
#21 Gone With The WindComposer: Max SteinerPoints: 87 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot Gone With The Wind - Main ThemeTrivia: Max Steiner was given only three months to compose the music, considering that 1939 was the busiest year of his career; in that year he wrote the music for 12 films. In order to meet the deadline, Steiner sometimes worked for 20 hours straight and took Benzedrine pills to stay awake. With almost three hours of music, "Gone With the Wind" had the longest film score ever composed up to that time.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:48:44 GMT
#20 JawsComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 91 Number of ballots: 8 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot Jaws - Main ThemeTrivia: When composer John Williams originally played the score for director Steven Spielberg, Spielberg laughed and said, "That's funny, John, really; but what did you really have in mind for the theme of Jaws?" Spielberg later stated that without Williams's score, the movie would only have been half as successful and according to Williams, it jumpstarted his career.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 21:51:15 GMT
Way too fucking low
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:52:46 GMT
#19 SupermanComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 93 Number of ballots: 6 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot Superman - Main ThemeTrivia: When John Williams, the Oscar Winning composer of the Superman soundtrack, was shown the rough cuts of Superman 2, by director Richard Lester, his heart sank; he could no longer commit to the project based on the direction it had taken and because Richard Donner had just been fired. Due to all of this he bowed out at this point; and refused to compose a score. Ken Thorne, another Oscar winning composer for "Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1967) was enlisted at that point and took over the composition duties for the movie.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:58:10 GMT
#18 Once Upon A Time In AmericaComposer: Ennio MorriconePoints: 97 Number of ballots: 9 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot Once Upon A Time In America - Deborah's ThemeTrivia: The U.S. distributor reportedly failed to file the proper paperwork so that Ennio Morricone's score, regarded as one of his best, could be put up for nomination for an Academy Award.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 21:59:26 GMT
Not bad so far, though it is a little by too-dominated by some composers, but that was expected. Cloud Atlas, The Fountain, The Third Man, Interstellar, and especially Mishima all deserve higher placements, but I'm elated enough that each one got on here. Very surprised that The Social Network is that low, definitely thought it'd finish in the top 25. Ditto thinking that Fargo would be (and should be) a bit higher. Nice placement for The Last of the Mohicans. And, best of all, Under the Skin cracking the top 25
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 22:02:52 GMT
My youth symphony in high school played the Superman score for one of our concerts (one of only a couple film music pieces we ever did), and it was one of the most fun experiences ever. Makes me jealous of symphony musicians who get to perform this stuff regularly.
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