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I'm sure Goldsmith would have turned in a very interesting score, but Morricone's score is so perfect I wouldn't go back and change it even if I had the chance.
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Dec 16, 2014 - 3:43 AM
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bobbengan
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Whoa, John Corigliano? I bet he would have delivered something VERY cool for this, and probably not terribly dissimilar from Morricone's own despair-laden, Bartok-inspired orchestral score.
To be honest, I don't think Goldsmith would have been the best choice for this - The propensity toward not using music during the horror/set pieces in the film is one of its great assets, and Goldsmith would've doubtlessly gone to town on those scenes with COMA or BOYS FROM BRAZIL-type action melodrama that worked against the images, even if the music was strong on its own (sorry, I think those aforementioned scores completely desiccate any tension in those films' action/suspense scenes).
I think a non-traditional film composer like Corigliano would have been amazing, or even someone like Kilar or Loek Dikker (think his fantastically evocative 4TH MAN). Of course, what Morricone delivered was no slouching effort either!
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I remember this even from way back in the 1980s, where Goldsmith mentioned being offered THE THING and that Carpenter sought him out for THE THING. At that time, he stated no reason why he turned it down. But it was indeed a very busy period for Goldsmith.
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woulda shoulda coulda.
Jerry was a smart man and, like Morricone, had a good instinct for bringing different food for different occasions.
But this is like saying Jarre would have made a better composrr on spartacus than alex north, or saying i wish Ennio had done a different approach to jerry on Hour of the gun.
its all irrelevant. ennio did the score to Thing and thats that. And did an exceptional one for the film.
And coz he was busy jerry did two very good scores elsewhere, which you wouldnt have if hed done The Thing
I bet if we knew the truth probably 90 per cent of films end up with a composer that wasnt necessarily the directors first choice. And most directors know the film game well enough that you have to have an open mind and several options on your list.
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Goldsmith should have been the default choice for EVERY Hollywood score between the 60's and the 2000's. Only if he wasnt available would a director be permitted to look elsewhere
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Goldsmith got so many chances to do movies that were loosely inspired by The Thing from Another World, Alien foremost, that we do have a pretty good idea of the stuff he'd have written for Carpenter's movie.
Maybe John Carpenter's The Thing would just have been covering old ground for JG at that moment.
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Leviathan is essentially a remake of The Thing set underwater, so that should give you some idea as to his approach. The scenes with Crenna (a carbon copy of the Wilford Brimley charater) figuring stuff out in his lab and eventually condemning the crew to death I imagine would sound similar.
Except Leviathan was a terrible film while The Thing is a modern classic.
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