Draft Game: Marvellous Movie Music
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Ludovic Bource composed the perfect score for the 2011 movie The Artist. His score is full of great tunes, it balances comedy with emotion and simply makes the movie what it is.
George Valentin’s theme:
Another composer that found the right emotional balance was Nicholas Hooper when he scored Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There are many dark aspects to this film that are scored perfectly, but there’s also some humour and sarcasm.
Professor Umbridge’s theme is overtly trite and too ‘pretty’:
George Valentin’s theme:
Another composer that found the right emotional balance was Nicholas Hooper when he scored Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There are many dark aspects to this film that are scored perfectly, but there’s also some humour and sarcasm.
Professor Umbridge’s theme is overtly trite and too ‘pretty’:
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My favorite song from the James Bond movie, Dr. No, will be my next pick… “Under the Mango Tree.” I recall it playing at several points in the film. It is established as being a popular tune in Jamaica at the time of the setting, playing in the background of the cabana bar, and a few other places if I recall, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film. The only clip online is it being the song Honey Ryder is singing to herself as she is walking onto the beach out of the surf:
The full version of the song made for the film:
The song was composed by Monty Norman who also wrote the original James Bond theme song, and sung by his wife, Diana Coupland.
Here is a more recent rendition of the song, that I like to listen to…
The full version of the song made for the film:
The song was composed by Monty Norman who also wrote the original James Bond theme song, and sung by his wife, Diana Coupland.
Here is a more recent rendition of the song, that I like to listen to…
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Honestly a little surprised this is still available. The piece was almost intended as music for mourning. A haunting dirge that produces a perfect background for a tragic movie about a pointless war.
The adagio was also used in The Elephant Man, Lorenzo's Oil, and El Norte.
The saddest music ever written?
| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @Mangekyou | The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March by John Williams | ||||||||||||||
| @Solidaire | Apocalypse Now: The End (The Doors) | Amadeus: Requiem in D Minor | |||||||||||||
| Tiberius Caesar | Love Theme (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) | Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | |||||||||||||
| delta1 | Star Wars: Star Wars Theme | Almost Famous: Tiny Dancer (Elton John) | |||||||||||||
| Emil | A Clockwork Orange: La Gazza Ladra Overture (Gioacchino Rossini) | The Dark Knight: Joker Theme (Hans Zimmer) | |||||||||||||
| Willempie | Up: Married Life | Batman: Partyman | |||||||||||||
| DiocletianIsBetterThanYou | Pulp Fiction: Misirlou | Kill Bill, Pt. 1: Bang Bang | |||||||||||||
| Triceratops | The Great Escape: Elmer Bernstein | Things to Come: Sir Arthur Bliss |
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| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sparky | Donnie Darko: It's a Mad World | Metropolis: Maria's Transformation (Chanaral Ortega-Miranda) | The Bridge on the River Kwai: Theme | ||||||||||||
| Mastersonmcvoidson | The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Theme Song (Ennio Morricone) | Eragon: Keep Holding On (Avril Lavigne) | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Der Koeniggraetzer Marsch (Johann Gottfried Piefke) | ||||||||||||
| Eye of Woland | Sophie's Ways: Theme de Yoyo (Art Ensemble of Chicago) | Story of the Fox: Tibert's Song | Lisbon Story: Guitarra (Madredeus) | ||||||||||||
| Offspring | The Lion King (1994): Be Prepared | The Aristocats (1970): Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat | Only Lovers Left Alive: Hal | ||||||||||||
| @Theodoric | Conan The Barbarian: The Riders of Doom | Casablanca: La Marseillaise | The Graduate: The Sound of Silence | ||||||||||||
| DingBat | Live and Let Die: Live and Let Die | Wayne's World: Bohemian Rhapsody | 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Blue Danube | Platoon: Adagio for Strings | |||||||||||
| FLK | Sun Valley Serenade: In the Mood | Quantum of Solace: James Bond Theme | Swing Banditry: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) | Dr No: Under the Mango Tree | |||||||||||
| avon | Once Upon A Time in the West | Lord of the Rings | The Artist: George Valentin | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Professor Umbridge |
Honestly a little surprised this is still available. The piece was almost intended as music for mourning. A haunting dirge that produces a perfect background for a tragic movie about a pointless war.
The adagio was also used in The Elephant Man, Lorenzo's Oil, and El Norte.
The saddest music ever written?
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My next choice is from one of my favourite bands and albums, made into a film in 1982 by Alan Parker. Pink Floyd - The Wall is an allegoric exploration of several themes, central of which is the gradual sinking of the protagonist into depression and alienation from his surroundings. The Wall symbolises this estrangement and self-confinement in a solitary world, gradually being built around the protagonist as a response to several wounds life inflicts upon him. The loss of a father in the War, brought up by a domineering, over-protective mother (who actively helped build the Wall), the harsh schooling system, and the final stroke, being cheated and abandoned by his wife. **
The album is a concept one and one needs to follow it from start to finish to appreciate it, but for the purpose of the draft I will single out perhaps the most musically brilliant track. Another Brick in the Wall, part 2.
**edit: It all comes down to the last track of the album (before the epilogue), where everything comes together for the final reckoning. That's another brilliant track which I'll drop here for the sake of better understanding the album (and film). The Trial:
The album is a concept one and one needs to follow it from start to finish to appreciate it, but for the purpose of the draft I will single out perhaps the most musically brilliant track. Another Brick in the Wall, part 2.
**edit: It all comes down to the last track of the album (before the epilogue), where everything comes together for the final reckoning. That's another brilliant track which I'll drop here for the sake of better understanding the album (and film). The Trial:
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The title song for 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Superstar, as performed in the outstanding 1973 movie by the great Carl Anderson. I'm in love with the coreography!
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Terminator Theme
The industrial rock theme does what it needs to for the Terminator series. It conveys the consequences of failure: something terrible will happen to the world—robotics, oppression, and the extermination of humanity. It sounds like the factories of apocalypse, and the terminators they built, reaching their cold metalic hands into the past to strangle the best hope of humanity. Great theme!
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The industrial rock theme does what it needs to for the Terminator series. It conveys the consequences of failure: something terrible will happen to the world—robotics, oppression, and the extermination of humanity. It sounds like the factories of apocalypse, and the terminators they built, reaching their cold metalic hands into the past to strangle the best hope of humanity. Great theme!
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| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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| @Mangekyou | The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March by John Williams | ||||||||||||||
| @Solidaire | Apocalypse Now: The End (The Doors) | Amadeus: Requiem in D Minor | |||||||||||||
| Tiberius Caesar | Love Theme (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) | Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | |||||||||||||
| delta1 | Star Wars: Star Wars Theme | Almost Famous: Tiny Dancer (Elton John) | |||||||||||||
| Emil | A Clockwork Orange: La Gazza Ladra Overture (Gioacchino Rossini) | The Dark Knight: Joker Theme (Hans Zimmer) | |||||||||||||
| Willempie | Up: Married Life | Batman: Partyman | |||||||||||||
| DiocletianIsBetterThanYou | Pulp Fiction: Misirlou | Kill Bill, Pt. 1: Bang Bang | |||||||||||||
| Triceratops | The Great Escape: Elmer Bernstein | Things to Come: Sir Arthur Bliss |
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| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sparky | Donnie Darko: It's a Mad World | Metropolis: Maria's Transformation (Chanaral Ortega-Miranda) | The Bridge on the River Kwai: Theme | ||||||||||||
| Mastersonmcvoidson | The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Theme Song (Ennio Morricone) | Eragon: Keep Holding On (Avril Lavigne) | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Der Koeniggraetzer Marsch (Johann Gottfried Piefke) | ||||||||||||
| Eye of Woland | Sophie's Ways: Theme de Yoyo (Art Ensemble of Chicago) | Story of the Fox: Tibert's Song | Lisbon Story: Guitarra (Madredeus) | ||||||||||||
| @Offspring | The Lion King (1994): Be Prepared | The Aristocats (1970): Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat | Only Lovers Left Alive: Hal | ||||||||||||
| Theodoric | Conan The Barbarian: The Riders of Doom | Casablanca: La Marseillaise | The Graduate: The Sound of Silence | Terminator 2: Terminator Theme | |||||||||||
| DingBat | Live and Let Die: Live and Let Die | Wayne's World: Bohemian Rhapsody | 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Blue Danube | Platoon: Adagio for Strings | |||||||||||
| FLK | Sun Valley Serenade: In the Mood | Quantum of Solace: James Bond Theme | Swing Banditry: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) | Dr No: Under the Mango Tree | |||||||||||
| avon | Once Upon A Time in the West | Lord of the Rings | The Artist: George Valentin | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Professor Umbridge |
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My picks:
Nothing like the good ol' classics. Nothing like the good ol' Superman theme, Superman.
Lets also have: He's a Pirate, Pirates of the Caribbean:
Nothing like the good ol' classics. Nothing like the good ol' Superman theme, Superman.
Lets also have: He's a Pirate, Pirates of the Caribbean:
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Time to update the table with links now that it is still early on, it will be impossible later.
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| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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| Mangekyou | The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March by John Williams | Superman: Superman theme | Pirates of the Caribbean: He's a Pirate | ||||||||||||
| Solidaire | Apocalypse Now: The End (The Doors) | Amadeus: Requiem in D Minor | Pink Floyd - The Wall: Another Brick in the Wall, part 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tiberius Caesar | Love Theme (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) | Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Jesus Christ Superstar | ||||||||||||
| delta1 | Star Wars: Star Wars Theme | Almost Famous: Tiny Dancer (Elton John) | |||||||||||||
| Emil | A Clockwork Orange: La Gazza Ladra Overture (Gioacchino Rossini) | The Dark Knight: Joker Theme (Hans Zimmer) | |||||||||||||
| Willempie | Up: Married Life | Batman: Partyman | |||||||||||||
| DiocletianIsBetterThanYou | Pulp Fiction: Misirlou | Kill Bill, Pt. 1: Bang Bang | |||||||||||||
| Triceratops | The Great Escape: Elmer Bernstein | Things to Come: Sir Arthur Bliss |
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I also propose a uniform format, film name/piece name and maybe artist? Or would including the artist make table entries to long?
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I reject your proposal and I counter-propose the following: anarchy.
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If you put them on separate lines, should be ok. It's easier to scroll vertically than horizontally anyway.
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| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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| Mangekyou | The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March by John Williams | Superman: Superman theme | Pirates of the Caribbean: He's a Pirate | ||||||||||||
| Solidaire | Apocalypse Now: The End (The Doors) | Amadeus: Requiem in D Minor | Pink Floyd - The Wall: Another Brick in the Wall, part 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tiberius Caesar | Love Theme (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) | Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Jesus Christ Superstar | ||||||||||||
| delta1 | Star Wars: Star Wars Theme | Almost Famous: Tiny Dancer (Elton John) | Singin' in the Rain | ||||||||||||
| @Emil | A Clockwork Orange: La Gazza Ladra Overture (Gioacchino Rossini) | The Dark Knight: Joker Theme (Hans Zimmer) | |||||||||||||
| Willempie | Up: Married Life | Batman: Partyman | |||||||||||||
| DiocletianIsBetterThanYou | Pulp Fiction: Misirlou | Kill Bill, Pt. 1: Bang Bang | |||||||||||||
| Triceratops | The Great Escape: Elmer Bernstein | Things to Come: Sir Arthur Bliss |
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Thanks for the hyperlinks!lol, fine by me in any case.
My opinion is that people should do as they please, as long as they have the name of the film, that's the only actual requirement. The particular song doesn't matter that much, because we aren't picking songs from movies, we are picking movie soundtracks and using the songs as a way to showcase the soundtracks (see the OP).
So, when I'm selecting a movie, I'm selecting it for the entire soundtrack, not because I like one particular song from it. This is the full soundtrack from my third pick:
Jim Jarmusch is the movie's screenwriter, director and main songwriter (SQÜRL is his band, Jozef van Wissem is a lutist he collabs with). He had the music in mind as he was writing the movie and it's all meant to fit together. It's also a very personal movie for him. The song I picked is the only one not by him and it's the only one with lyrics. I'm not sure I would have picked the song if I had to write the artist, since all of rest is composed by a different person.
Anyway, here's the world's coolest explanation (in terms of delivery) for quantum entanglement (stop it after a minute, if you don't want the movie's ending spoiled):
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Next song comes from "The Young ..... of Rochefort" (unrelated to @Willempie's search history), a more straightforward musical from the famed Jacques Demy/Michel Legrand partnership compared to their previous collaboration "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". Paying homage to classic Hollywood musicals and backed by an all-star French and American cast, the action unfolds during a festival with several couples looking - and just missing - their special someone. The energetic, jazzy score has so many great options so I picked the one song showcasing every other song in the film: "From Hamburg to Rochefort". After a downbeat piano preamble it jumps into a reprise of "The Twins Song", before visiting each character with their individual theme and predicament, before returning to "The Twin Song".
The film isn't on youtube and it's slightly different to the album, you can watch it here: From 1:07:45 to 1:13:41 (press the cog button and pick the bottom option for english subtitles)
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The film isn't on youtube and it's slightly different to the album, you can watch it here: From 1:07:45 to 1:13:41 (press the cog button and pick the bottom option for english subtitles)
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