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I rarely read about the contribution a good music score has to a movie's popularity. A great score makes the movie. For example, The Blue Max, Ben Hur, the fir
by WalterBright 2mo ago
I rarely read about the contribution a good music score has to a movie's popularity. A great score makes the movie. For example,
The Blue Max, Ben Hur, the first Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dr Zhivago, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and, of course, Blade Runner!
- beloch 2mo agoThe original teaser for Star Wars was made before they had John Williams' score: https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM?si=VxAJcCATzwn6gZPw https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM?si=VxAJcCATzwn6gZPw Watching it may help you appreciate just how important the Williams' score was to Star Wars' success. It's one of the all-time greats! I'd also add that some movies are worth watching purely because of their score. e.g. "Conan the Barbarian" is a pretty shlocky flick. However, the director and composer took a collaborative approach to the score that was closer to opera than film. Unlike most movies, work on the score began before filming and there was continual collaboration during filming. The result remains one of the best scores in the history of film, and a film that makes the music its backbone.
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- WalterBright 2mo agoI went with my dorm to see SW on the second day of release. I had no idea what to expect. Then, with the opening stab of music, I knew it was going to be great.
- ndsipa_pomu 2mo agoI'll add Donnie Darko and The Blues Brothers (that may be cheating, though).
- account42 2mo agoDonnie Darko is interesting because the director's cut has significant changes to the music compared to the theatrical release, including the one played in the opening sequence.
- ndsipa_pomu 2mo agoI didn't know that and Donnie Darko is one of my favourite films. From Wikipedia: "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen was replaced with "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS, which Kelly had not had the rights to use in the film's theatrical release. Also: Kelly had originally wanted to use the songs "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys during the opening scene of Donnie cycling home and Sparkle Motion's dance at the talent show respectively, but financial constraints meant that he instead had to use "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen and "Notorious" by Duran Duran. For the director's cut, Kelly was able to gain the rights to use "Never Tear Us Apart" for the opening scene, and moved "The Killing Moon" to later in the film; "Notorious" was not moved from the talent show scene.
- the_af 2mo agoDonnie Darko is (to me) one of those movies ruined by the director's cut. Not only due to the music changes, but also because the "message" of the movie is made more explicit and on the nose. And reading Kelly's interviews and opinions is even worse. One of those movies where keeping the original, and the mystery, is absolutely mandatory.
- ilamont 2mo agoI haven't seen Darko's director's cut, but am reluctant to do so just because they swapped out Echo and the Bunnymen for the opening scene, which works so well. For Blade Runner director's cut, I had mixed feelings. The unicorn scenes and some other added footage helped. I thought getting rid of Deckard's inner thoughts VO was a mistake. In the scene at the noodle stall, it clarified a lot of things such as the language people were speaking. The VO after the dancer's shooting was also revealing in a way that interpreting the expression on his face was not.
- 10729287 2mo agoI always remember a quote I read when I was way younger about Halloween or The Exorcist : "the film's score is a character in its own right".
- ArekDymalski 2mo agoI guess the good examples where music could be an important driver to the movies popularity (or revival of popularity) might be: "Requiem for a dream" and "Das Boot". Also for me personally - "The Mission" as incredible score by Ennio Morricone has brought me tia film I'd rather ignore. Other (also personal) example is " The Spawn" with it's mind-blowing OST.
- WalterBright 2mo agoP.S. I deliberately did not include musicals or movies like 2001 that did not compose an original score.
- justincormack 2mo ago2001 did have an original score, but it was thrown out and replaced with classical music
- m463 2mo agoHow could you skip The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? :)
- srean 2mo agoGreat for listening to while programming. Words/lyrics throw me off but movie scores ... they feel perfect for programming.