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Doesnt come much better than the legendary last 20 mins of GBU.
Morricone/Leone masterpiece
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John William's "E.T." final music is simply breathtaking.
Impossible not to cry like a baby.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 10:19 AM
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Ron Pulliam
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In 1954's "The Egyptian" (20th Century-Fox, directed by Michael Curtiz), an aged Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), living in exile for decades, is writing his final words on papyrus hoping that his son will one day find it and read of his father's life.
As he is narrating, Alfred Newman's theme and Ken Darby's choral work enhance what he is saying, and when he dies, quill in hand, the music and voices rise into one of the screen's most majestic finales.
Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann collaborated on this score. For me, it's the greatest "collaboration" in film music history and the music is wholly homogenous and fits the film like a glove.
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Two that have always haunted me:
The closing of Seven Days in May:
President Jordan Lyman's gives a broadcast address after surviving a near coup, the tv announcer says "The President of the United States" - and then Jerry Goldsmith's final drumroll provides a deeply unsettling end to what should ostensibly be a happy, or at least grimly triumphant, ending.
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7974/.f
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean:
Miss Lillie Langtry visits the Judge's bar (now a kind of museum) and we hear him read his last letter to her - with Maurice Jarre's brilliant theme slowly growing and then unwinding away under the credits.
"My dearest Lillie: I take pen in hand to write to you for this very last time. I wish to tell you that although I've never seen you, or heard the sound of your voice, I have carried you with me in my heart always....I wish to say lastly, it has been an honor to adore you. God willing, sometime in this life or afterwards, I may yet stand in your light and declare myself, forever and ever, your ardent admirer and champion...Judge Roy Bean."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sm7o2thEuA
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John William's "E.T." final music is simply breathtaking.
Impossible not to cry like a baby.
Agreed.
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Another breathtaking finale is the one from "Powder".
Goldsmith's music makes every hair stand up!
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James Newton Howard's Unbreakable is one that's always stuck with me.
Yavar
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Can't believe that nobody has yet mentioned Herrmann's scoring of the final scene to CITIZEN KANE. Just thinking about the words "Rosebud" etched on the sled and how they are consumed by the flames, obliterated forever, backed by Herrmann's absolutely frighteningly heartbreaking powerhouse cue sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.
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