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Well I will have to disagree with Rozsaphile and Doug Raynes on this one. In fact, I bought and listened to all of Rozsa's soundtrack LPs before seeing the movie. Moreover I reveled in his evocative score for SODOM AND GOMORRAH decades before finally seeing the movie on Laserdisc; the film did little to heighten my enjoyment of the score, and I try not to recall the film in listening to the music. Come to think of it, I remember enjoying LP after LP in the sixties... Mancini's HATARI!, CHARADE, THE PINK PANTHER, North's SPARTACUS and CLEOPATRA, Newman's HOW THE WEST WAS WON and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, Bernstein's THE GREAT ESCAPE and HAWAII, Goldsmith's THE BLUE MAX and THE SAND PEBBLES... and it was always the music compelled me to see the films (SPARTACUS, HAWAII and GREATEST STORY I didn't see until many years later). I don't feel I have to reference any film track-by-track to enjoy a good score. If the score is an engaging one on its own, then it is worth listening to regardless of the merits of the film; if the film is a good one, all the better. If the score does not resonate with me, then perhaps viewing the film might change my mind enough to give it a second listen, which rarely happens.
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For me it's more about the composer than about the film. I love Carter Burwell's music but you really think I'm gonna watch Breaking Dawn? And have seen some of the horrible films Brian Tyler has scored in his career? Or Marco Beltrami?
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