Thread: Ten favorite film scores

King's Row....it makes me feel like I'm in galaxy far, far away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwa9mX0bxA

Dropzone...it makes me feel like I'm Keith Richards on a Pirate ship (2min mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5F0Q0XGwqw

Pirate's of the Caribbean...it makes me feel like I'm in a spaghetti western (skip to 1 minute mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsqAjJnMdA

Avatar, Enemy at the Gates, Troy and Willow...it makes me feel that Horner is too lazy to change the record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsyYJksGtg

Apollo13, Titanic, Enemy at the Gates and Schindler's List...it makes me feel that film music is so innovative. (2:30 mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGudW...=RDPf0C5tzcQlg

Well, you got 11 for the price of 10. This is why you don't take a musician to the movies.

Simply choose 10 Alfred Hitchcock Films. He always had composers writing inspired scores.

Originally Posted by hpowders

Simply choose 10 Alfred Hitchcock Films. He always had composers writing inspired scores.

Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much. . . yeah: Bernard Herrmann.

Top ten? Well, that's impossible for me. But these scores certainly mean the world to me:

Ben Hur (Rozsa)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Kaper)
King Kong (Steiner)
Blue Max (Goldsmith)
Vertigo (Herrmann)
North by Northwest (Herrmann)
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Herrmann)
Thief of Baghdad (Rozsa)
Quo Vadis (Rozsa)
Empire Strikes Back (Williams)

Originally Posted by Marschallin Blair

Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much. . . yeah: Bernard Herrmann.

Yup. Herrmann was no Peewee!

Originally Posted by JACE

The Empire Strikes Back was released when I was 12. I got the 2-LP John Williams soundtrack not long after seeing the movie. It was one of the first albums I ever bought. I still have it.



Some other favorites:
- The Wizard of Oz - Harold Arlen
- Casablanca - Max Steiner
- Anatomy of a Murder - Duke Ellington
- Vertigo - Bernard Hermann- Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre- In The Heat Of The Night - Quincy Jones
- Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin
- Once Upon a Time in the West - Ennio Morricone
- 8 1/2 - Nino Rota

Empire?-- certainly.

But Lalo Schiffrin's score to Bullitt? A black 440 Charger R/T, yes!

But Schiffrin's jazz score? . . .

Originally Posted by hpowders

Yup. Herrmann was no Peewee!

Pound-for-pound, score-for-score I think the greatest film composer of all time-- though admittedly, not my favorite; who is in fact Miklos Rozsa.

Originally Posted by JACE

Sure! Why not?!?!

I love jazz, and I grew up on jazzy cop show themes. Think Patrick Williams' "Streets of San Francisco" and Bob James' & Oliver Nelson's scores for "Columbo."

Schifrin's "Bullitt" soundtrack was better than any of them! (Except for Quincy Jones' scores.)


Are you not a fan of jazz? Or just not a fan of Schifrin?

Confessedly, both.

;D

Originally Posted by JACE

By the way, you like the bad guys' Charger better than McQueen's '68 Mustang Fastback??? Now that I don't understand.

JK!!! :out:

My dad had a '66 Fastback Mustang -- in that same dark green color. So I've always thought that Mustang coupes were the ultimate in coolness. ...Just like Steve McQueen.

Cheers to your dad. . .

I certainly like the look and the sound of the '68 Mustang Fastback (especially the Shelby GT)-- but it doesn't have positraction or a 440.

People on the set of Bullitt said that every time that '68 440 Charger R/T hit the straight-away-- it just pulled away from the Mustang. . . in force.

McQueen originally asked if he could drive the Charger and not the Mustang for the role-- but the request was denied. The black Charger was to be the "bad guy's" car; and so it was. . .

Admittedly, I have a thing for '68-'70 Chargers and Roadrunners; '70 and '71 Cudas too; 440 six-pack set ups and Hemi's only please. . . ;D