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Duncan Jones (director of MOON, and the son of David Bowie) is directing a new action-thriller titled SOURCE CODE. The film is about a government experiment program that enables a soldier to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life to help prevent a terrorist attack.
And to hope that his next leap... will be the leap home?
MILD SPOILER ALERT!!
The moment I recognised the voice of the lead's father on the telephone I fell in love with this movie.
SPOILER OVER!!!
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My review of Chris Bacon's score for SOURCE CODE is now up at MainTitles.net:
http://www.maintitles.net/reviews/source-code/
I found it quite a frustrating listen in that there were tantalising glimpses of some excellent emotional scoring that stood way out above the less interesting suspense and tension scoring. Probably quite serviceable in the movie but not too interesting as a listen away from the movie.
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Could really listen to it today for the first time.
As ha been posted above, Source Code is somewhere in the same musical landscape as
Signs and the Bourne Films (the major third as a closing note in phrases surrounded by an minor mode context), but I don't agree to some you say JNH or Powell should get composer
credits, Bacon writes his own original music in the same fashion.
What a hell of a debut.
Waiting for the next Bacon!
Not exactly a "debut", his score for Space Chimps 3 years ago got a CD release, he did some stuff released digitally : Nora Roberts Collections (TV films) & Alpha and Omega... 
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May 12, 2011 - 5:51 AM
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Mike West
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Just came back from a press screening of this one (it hasn't premiered in Norway yet).
Love the film, thought the score was really good.
But I don't hear that JNH influence that everyone raves about. At least not very much. To me, there were three distinct elements - the 70's gritty urban jazz thriller sound of the opening theme (a la Shire's TAKING OF PELHAM), the smooth thriller strings a la Goldsmith's BASIC INSTINCT and then the very emotional, almost James Horner-like sweep of the romantic theme.
I think I'm gonna write an article on this score for montages.no. Will keep you updated.
very well observed, Thor
I think the harmonic progressions in the strings in the quieter moments are very much like JNH, the voicing/spacing of the chords, the repertoire of chords and their connection etc.
And the higher fast Horn repetitions are the same as in SIGNS
The love theme sounds very inspired, very fresh, I like that too.
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Saw the film this afternoon, rather pleased by the score. I certainly got whiffs of Jerry and JNH. Pete Anthony is credited in the movie as conductor, and there's an orchestra contractor listed on the IMDb.
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Could be interesting.
It's a fun movie and the score is outstanding. Had no idea who the composer was, but right from the opening credits I sat up and took notice. I am very glad to see Lakeshore stepping up to the plate with a CD release.
Just watched this excellent & surprising film; and must agree that from the very beginning the opening music had my blood racing. Very Bernard Herrmann in its sense of urgency and lyrical bombastic pace. An impressive debut from a new voice in the biz.
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Just watched this excellent & surprising film; and must agree that from the very beginning the opening music had my blood racing. Very Bernard Herrmann in its sense of urgency and lyrical bombastic pace. An impressive debut from a new voice in the biz.
A strong opening cue raised my expectations but having seen the film twice now [I thought it was OK the first time but really HATE the ending the second time around [[and by that I mean everything after Colter looks at the orb art piece]] the score sounds rather derivative and yes, if you told me it was JNH scoring it I would believe it so let us hope that Bacon comes out swinging the next time around.
Would be awful if James Newton Howard learned this trick from working with Zimmer and RC/MV....
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Bernard Herrmann.
I liked it. The action sequences & the emotional/love theme.
Great film.
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I thought the opening music was very Herrmannesque.
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