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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 7:11:32 GMT
I was thinking of doing the presentation this Friday around 4PM EST/1PM PST/9PM UK time. Would that work for you?
EDIT - Presentation today (Thursday) starting at 4PM EST/ 1PM EST/9PM UK time.
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Post by JangoB on Oct 25, 2018 8:35:31 GMT
Works for me for sure, cannot wait!
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Oct 25, 2018 9:07:32 GMT
That's perfect for me too. Looking forward to it.  |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 10:03:16 GMT
If I'm around tomorrow, that time suits me perfect.
It's about the time I did my three presentations time wise and activity on the threads was pretty good.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 10:55:13 GMT
If I'm around tomorrow, that time suits me perfect. It's about the time I did my three presentations time wise and activity on the threads was pretty good. It'll take around 2.5 hours. I plan to unveil the 50 to 26 spots in groups of five, and then a post for each score in the Top 25. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 14:57:28 GMT
I'm not really available all weekend, so don't mind me. I'll catch-up on the results when I get the chance.
Absolutely can't wait to see these results, though! I genuinely have little idea what to expect, which is more than I can say for the majority of the polls held here.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 15:06:29 GMT
I'm not really available all weekend, so don't mind me. I'll catch-up on the results when I get the chance. Absolutely can't wait to see these results, though! I genuinely have little idea what to expect, which is more than I can say for the majority of the polls held here. I actually just learned that I'm free for the rest of today so I'm already working on it, choosing videos and trivia. I think I'll do it today. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 15:08:01 GMT
I actually just learned that I'm free for the rest of today so I'm already working on it, choosing videos and trivia. I think I'll do it today. Awesome!! That'd be great, I'll probably be at my computer doing schoolwork most of the night, so that should work. |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 15:18:47 GMT
I'm not really available all weekend, so don't mind me. I'll catch-up on the results when I get the chance. Absolutely can't wait to see these results, though! I genuinely have little idea what to expect, which is more than I can say for the majority of the polls held here. I actually just learned that I'm free for the rest of today so I'm already working on it, choosing videos and trivia. I think I'll do it today. I should hopefully catch some of it later, but otherwise I'll enjoy reading it all without the waiting tomorrow. |
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 15:30:15 GMT
Any Top 10 predictions before the presentation starts?
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Post by stephen on Oct 25, 2018 16:27:39 GMT
I'm expecting Williams and Morricone to make up at least half of the top ten.
Still, holding out hope for Jonny G., Hans for The Thin Red Line, the Cloud Atlas gang and even King Cliff to grace that vaunted group.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 17:10:01 GMT
Not sure about top 10, but I think Star Wars and LOTR will be in the top 3. Psycho and Jaws will probably somewhere in the top 10.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 19:58:29 GMT
Almost ready! First of all, let me thank the beautiful users who decided to participate in this poll: therealcomicman117
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 20:04:15 GMT
203 were the scores that received points.
136 were the scores that received only 1 mention
12 mentions was the highest in the poll for a single score.
Coming up with the first batch of scores...
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 20:23:41 GMT
TIE #50 The Third ManComposer: Anton KarasPoints: 49 Number of ballots: 4 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
Trivia: Somewhat apocryphal stories abound regarding Carol Reed discovering musician Anton Karas while scouring Vienna bars and nightclubs. Reed actually heard Karas playing at a production party and insisted the Austrian zither player come to Reed's hotel room and record songs to use for the contract. Later in production, Reed realized he wanted to use Karas' music for the whole film and flew Karas out to London to record the score. Karas became a top-selling musician thanks to the film and opened a nightclub called "The Third Man" in Vienna, which he ran to the end of his days. TIE #50 Cloud AtlasComposers: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klmek, Reinhold HeilPoints: 49 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot
Trivia “We looked at the Sextet, ultimately, as a character next to the characters of people.” Tom Tykwer TIE #47 Taxi DriverComposer: Bernard HerrmannPoints: 50 Number of ballots: 4 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot
Trivia Bernard Herrmann's wife says that when Martin Scorsese, then relatively unknown, called her famous husband to ask Hermann to do the score, he at first refused saying, "I don't write music for car movies." Hermann only accepted after reading the script, and then wrote a highly original score using dissonant brass to punctuate the inner emotions of Travis. TIE #47 Edward ScissorhandsComposer: Danny ElfmanPoints: 50 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #6 on 1 ballot
Trivia Tim Burton had asked Robert Smith of The Cure to do the soundtrack, and had even sent the script. Robert was busy recording "Disintegration" at the time, and didn't know who Burton was, so passed up the opportunity, handing Danny Elfman the job. TIE #47 RockyComposer: Bill ContiPoints: 50 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #5 on 1 ballot
Trivia "Avildsen wanted to maintain this classic fairy tale feeling about it.” But Conti knew it was crucial to ground the film’s score in something less “fairytale” than Beethoven. “I reminded him that we were in the streets of Philadelphia, I should bring in some of the other elements of the day. Meaning it was supposed to be real time in ’76 and we should have music of the street, along with the classic feel of a timeless fairytale.” #46 InterstellarComposer: Hans ZimmerPoints: 51 Number of ballots: 6 Highest ranking: #15 on 4 ballots
Trivia: Composer Hans Zimmer was instructed by Christopher Nolan to make a unique score: "it's time to reinvent. The endless string ostinatos need to go by the wayside, the big drums are probably in the bin." Nolan did not provide Zimmer a script or any plot details for writing music for the film, and instead gave the composer "one page of text" that "had more to do with Zimmer's story than the plot of the movie."
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Post by stephen on Oct 25, 2018 20:27:48 GMT
Cloud Atlas was robbed of the top five.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 20:30:16 GMT
Dang, I thought both Edward Scissorhands and Rocky would be way higher, so I'm now just pleased that they actually made it.
Unlike the majority of things about the film, I do like the score of Taxi Driver, so I can more than live with this placing.
The Third Man has a good one, and Interstellar is decent enough.
I haven't heard the Cloud Atlas one, as I haven't seen the film.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 20:36:33 GMT
TIE #43 Requiem For A DreamComposer: Clint MansellPoints: 52 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
Trivia: In the opening scene, the sounds of a string quartet can be heard tuning up for a performance in the soundtrack. Just before the title rolls down, you hear a conductor tap on his music stand to ready the quartet for a performance. The people tuning up are the Kronos Quartet, who played most of the music for the film. The maestro bringing them to attention is Darren Aronofsky, the director. TIE #43 FargoComposer: Carter BurwellPoints: 52 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot
Trivia: The main musical motif is based on a Norwegian folk song] called "The Lost Sheep", or natively "Den bortkomne sauen". TIE #43 Mary PoppinsComposer: Richard B. Sherman, Robert M. ShermanPoints: 52 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot
Trivia: Not only was "Feed the Birds" Walt Disney's favorite song in the film, but it is said that anytime he visited the Sherman brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman) during the rest of his life, all he would have to do was say, "Play it," and they knew he wanted to hear "Feed the Birds". TIE #41 The FountainComposer: Clint MansellPoints: 53 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #5 on 1 ballot
The Fountain - Death Is The Road To Awe
Trivia: The score, composed by Clint Mansell, is played by the Kronos Quartet and the Scottish rock band Mogwai. TIE #41 Raiders of The Lost ArkComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 53 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #5 on 2 ballots
Trivia: John Williams had actually written two themes for the film. He played them both for Steven Spielberg on the piano and Spielberg loved them so much, he suggested that Williams use both of them. He did and the result was the famous "Raiders March", performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (who did not perform in any more Indiana Jones films). The March has become one of the most popular movie themes of all time.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 20:38:28 GMT
I haven't heard the Cloud Atlas one, as I haven't seen the film. I suggest you do, it's a gorgeous piece of music. |
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 25, 2018 20:39:42 GMT
definitely expected Fargo to be WAY higher
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 20:40:11 GMT
Fargo comfortably made my ballot and Raiders just snuck into it too.
The other three, well you can't argue with any of them. So much of Poppins is iconic, and while hideously overplayed and overused at this point, Lux Aeterna is still wonderful.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 20:50:33 GMT
#40 American BeautyComposer: Thomas NewmanPoints: 54 Number of ballots: 4 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot American Beauty - Dead AlreadyTrivia: “Sam Mendes, the director, loved the plastic bag theme (aka Any Other Name) very much and that it worked really in that scene where there’s this plastic bag floating. We got to the end of the movie and it was clear that we were going to have to go back to that theme and Sam had already given me that impression that that was what he was going to do." #39 Mishima: A Life In Four ChaptersComposer: Philip GlassPoints: 56 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters - Temple Of The Golden PavillionTrivia: Glass said that he felt empowered by the confidence Schrader had in him, considering “Mishima” was Glass’s first film project that was anchored in a narrative. “We were in a Tokyo diner talking about the book, just me and him,” Glass recalled. “I asked, ‘How do you want the music to work?’ He took the script and pushed it over to me and said, ‘You tell me.’ #38 Mulholland Dr.Composer: Angelo BadalamentiPoints: 57 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #5 on 1 ballot Mulholland Dr. - Main ThemeTrivia: Badalamenti: "Mulholland Drive is just about a wall-to-wall combination of music and sound design. It's a terrific example of that kind of approach." #37 The Social NetworkComposer: Trent Reznor and Atticus RossPoints: 58 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #9 on 1 ballot The Social Network - In MotionTrivia: "David isn’t the kind of guy who just wings it. He can tell you a very clear idea of what he thinks you should be like. So, he suggested let’s avoid an orchestra, let’s keep things somewhat synthetic. He threw out names like Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. He set-up some parameters, and gave me a phase one of spending two weeks generating sort of let sketches, and then said if anything resonates, I’ll go down that path. In my mind it wasn’t so much scene specific things but tones and tonal ranges." #36 Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's StoneComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 62 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #11 on 1 ballot Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone - Hedwig's ThemeTrivia: John Williams composed a piece of music specifically for the movie's trailer without having seen a single frame of film, and it is found on the soundtrack as "The Prologue".
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 21:00:55 GMT
Glad the Social Network wasn't any higher than this, but sad that Mulholland Drive wasn't a lot higher.
I think this is a fair enough finish for American Beauty and Philosopher's Stone.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 21:02:19 GMT
#35 InceptionComposer: Hans ZimmerPoints: 63 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot Inception - TimeTrivia: "I was writing from just conversations with Chris, I was writing while we were shooting. I started sending him pieces of music without telling him where they were supposed to go, just to see if he would figure it out. It's a game we get to play. I get to see if I can be articulate in the music and see if the director can hear it." Hans Zimmer #34 Picnic at Hanging RockComposer: Bruce SmeatonPoints: 64 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
#33 Schindler's ListComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 65 Number of ballots: 5 Highest ranking: #4 on 1 ballot Schindler's ListTrivia: "When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of the film, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside for several minutes to collect himself. Upon his return, he told Spielberg he deserved a better Composer. Spielberg replied, "I know, but they're all dead." #32 AtonementComposer: Dario MarianelliPoints: 66 Number of ballots: 3 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot Atonement - BrionyTrivia: "The idea came because of the theme of the movie. You start the movie with somebody typing and already you see a bit of fiction within the fiction of the film. But it also captures something in Briony’s character. ... There’s something almost mechanical about her at times. She’s almost like a mechanism that has gone slightly wrong and she becomes obsessive about things. It’s like some little cog gets stuck in her mind." #31 BraveheartComposer: James HornerPoints: 69 Number of ballots: 4 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot Braveheart - Main ThemeTrivia: "Mel Gibson is brilliant. And he steps back, and he's still a brilliant, brilliant director, and I'd give anything to do a film that he was doing. There are certain films, it's all about how much freedom you're given."
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 25, 2018 21:06:41 GMT
That stretch of 5 is fantastic stuff, though Hanging Rock is at least 20 spots too low.
Surprised Atonement and Braveheart aren't higher too. I didn't vote for either, as limited spaces, but both are lovely and I thought they were more beloved.
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