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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:02:53 GMT
#17 There Will Be BloodComposer: Jonny GreenwoodPoints: 98 Number of ballots: 8 Highest ranking: #7 on 2 ballots There Will Be Blood - Prospectors ArriveTrivia: I saw some fairly long sections of the film, read the script, and just wrote loads of music. I tried to write to the scenery, and the story rather then specific “themes” for characters. It's not really the kind of narrative that would suit that. It was all about the underlying menace in the film, the greed, and that against the fucked up, oppressive religious mood—and this kid in the middle of it all. Only a couple of the parts were written for specific scenes. I was happier writing lots of music for the film/story, and having PTA [Paul Thomas Anderson] fit some of it to the film.
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Post by stephen on Oct 25, 2018 22:04:16 GMT
Robbed of the top three, but I'll take it.
Wonder if Greenwood will score higher for Phantom Thread.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:06:27 GMT
Great placement for TWBB, roughly around where it popped up on my ballot. Glad it made it this high. Hopefully there's more Greenwood to come!
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:07:44 GMT
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:12:31 GMT
#15 Mad Max: Fury RoadComposer: Junkie XLPoints: 105 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot Mad Max: Fury Road - Brothers In ArmsTrivia: "And with Mad Max, I was able to do everything on my own: play the guitars, play the bass and the drums because I play all of those instruments and I lived through that musical style, too, back in the 90s.”
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 25, 2018 22:14:20 GMT
I like it. I just don’t think it’s GOAT worthy.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:16:46 GMT
#14 HalloweenComposer: John CarpenterPoints: 125 Number of ballots: 8 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot Halloween - Main ThemeTrivia: John Carpenter's iconic score for the movie manifested from a female critic's negative review after screening the film: that it wasn't scary. At the time, there was no music in the film whatsoever. Carpenter then composed the fully-improvised score in three days.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 22:16:48 GMT
The opening shot of TWBB is one of my favorites in large part because of the music's interaction with the fade-in... the converging and diverging of lines - very Ligeti-esque. Unsettling af, but the score also has a strange beauty at times. I love The Master and Phantom Thread, but this is still my favorite Greenwood score.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:18:50 GMT
Huh. Had no idea that Carpenter composed Halloween's score himself (though I was aware of his musicianship). Cool piece of trivia, too.
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Post by stephen on Oct 25, 2018 22:20:21 GMT
#15 made me cream my pants. Inspired choice.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:21:52 GMT
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:25:55 GMT
#12 PsychoComposer: Bernard HerrmannPoints: 133 Number of ballots: 10 Highest ranking: #2 on 1 ballot Psycho - SuiteTrivia: Director Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he doubled the composer's salary to $34,501. Hitchcock later said, "33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music."
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:29:31 GMT
Whoa, I'm kinda shocked that Psycho didn't at least make the top ten (though it'd be top five, to be honest). Hopefully this means that Vertigo (deservedly) topped it.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:29:43 GMT
#11 Lawrence of ArabiaComposer: Maurice JarrePoints: 134 Number of ballots: 9 Highest ranking: #2 on 2 ballots Lawrence Of Arabia - Main ThemeTrivia: Musically, Maurice Jarre was hired to write the dramatic score, Aram Khachaturyan was handling the eastern themes and Benjamin Britten was to provide the British imperial music. Neither Khatchaturian or Britten were able to properly get involved so Sam Spiegel hired Richard Rodgers to fill in the musical gaps. When Spiegel and Lean heard Rodgers' compositions, they were hugely disappointed, so they turned to Jarre to see what he had done. The minute Lean heard Jarre's now-classic theme, he knew they had the right composer. Jarre was given the job of scoring the whole film - in a mere six weeks.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:34:39 GMT
#10 The Thin Red LineComposer: Hans ZimmerPoints: 136 Number of ballots: 8 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot The Thin Red Line - Journey To The LineTrivia: Hans Zimmer, the composer on the film along with John Powell (who provided additional music) composed over four hours of music on this film, presumably for the original director's cut of the film. However, when director Terrence Malick re-cut the film down to its current running time of 170 minutes, he chose only a few select pieces of music from Zimmer's and Powell's musical contributions, along with original source music, which ended up in the theatrical edition of the film.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 22:37:54 GMT
What I love about the Psycho score is not just the screechy, violent strings, but generally the way Herrmann uses them in a percussive way while also overlaying an eerie melody over top of it, so he's doing something very modern by doing a lot of different things gesturally with the strings.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:38:23 GMT
Yes!! So glad Zimmer's best score made the top ten!
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:39:45 GMT
#9 Phantom ThreadComposer: Jonny GreenwoodPoints: 137 Number of ballots: 9 Highest ranking: #3 on 1 ballot Phantom Thread - House Of WoodcockTrivia: There are 90 minutes of Jonny Greenwood's score used during the 130 minute running time of "Phantom Thread" . Greenwood says he was influenced by the works of Nelson Riddle and Glenn Gould from the 50's.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:44:51 GMT
YESSSSSS Honestly never would've thought such a recent score would be voted this highly. But I had it in the low-end of my top ten as well, so I'm super happy about this placement. Well done, MAR.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:45:09 GMT
#8 The GodfatherComposer: Nino RotaPoints: 139 Number of ballots: 11 Highest ranking: #6 on 2 ballots The Godfather - Main ThemeTrivia: Robert Evans hated Nino Rota's original stab at the score. Francis Ford Coppola threatened to quit over this, until Evans backed down.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:50:31 GMT
#7 Star Wars: A New HopeComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 143 Number of ballots: 9 Highest ranking: #1 on 1 ballot Star Wars: A New Hope - Main ThemeTrivia: George Lucas planned to score the film with existing classical music like Stanley Kubrick had done on 2001: A Space Odyssey, before Steven Spielberg introduced him to composer John Williams. Lucas and Williams agreed on a classical 19th-century Romantic music style with liberal use of leitmotif for the score. Since the movie would show worlds never seen before, the music had to serve as an "emotional anchor" for the audience to relate.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 25, 2018 22:54:47 GMT
Wow, I would have expected the original Star Wars to at least be in the top 5...
Not just an incredible achievement in terms of composition, but historically important too. Made the leitmotivic score popular again in a big way...
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 22:55:44 GMT
#6 VertigoComposer: Bernard HerrmannPoints: 144 Number of ballots: 7 Highest ranking: #1 on 2 ballots Vertigo - Main ThemeTrivia: Bernard Herrmann's score is largely inspired by Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" which, like the film, is also about doomed love.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2018 22:57:33 GMT
Nice. Had Vertigo at #5, so I'm perfectly satisfied with that.
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 25, 2018 23:00:35 GMT
#5 Jurassic ParkComposer: John WilliamsPoints: 165 Number of ballots: 10 Highest ranking: #1 on 3 ballots Jurassic Park - Main ThemeTrivia: John Williams scored the film at the end of February, 1993 and recorded it a month later. He felt he needed to write "pieces that would convey a sense of awe and fascination, given it dealt with the overwhelming happiness and excitement that would emerge from seeing live dinosaurs."
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