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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17      General Discussion: Thomas Newman - BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)    FIRST   PRIOR   15 16 17       Last Post   Posted:   Dec 15, 2015 - 12:35 PM     By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member) Caught the film this afternoon and really enjoyed it. Maybe it would have benefited from being 15 minutes shorter but overall it's an intriguing, interesting film, beautifully acted and directed. Excellent Thomas Newman score, fairly sparse but always perfectly constructed. I picked up the CD in US a few weeks back and look forward to playing it soon.    Posted:   Dec 16, 2015 - 1:43 AM     By:   Gunnar   (Member) I liked the film a lot more than I expected - the trailers didn't appeal that much to me. As you said, it's just very good filmmaking on all accounts and I am looking forward to watching the film again. The calm tone and beautiful photography and sets create a really atmospheric film. I really enjoy that Spielberg tries hilmself in the most different of genres, and here he nailed the tone of the cold war spy thriller perfectly. Beautiful contrasts also between the opening in warm New York and the winter scenes in Berlin. Great decision, also, to leave the first half basically unscored, it works beautifully and makes the use of music in the second half all the more effective. I'll have to listen to Newman's score on its own again, but especially the finale worked well, with less emotions on-screen and the music tugging at the heartstrings instead.    Posted:   Dec 16, 2015 - 2:42 PM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) ******POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT*******!!!! Best line in the film. When Hanks finally returns home and talks to the wife, saying "where are the kids? Did they even notice I was gone" Classic!    Posted:   Dec 16, 2015 - 5:15 PM     By:   John Mullin   (Member) I agree with Gunnar above, but the first cue - "Rain" - comes in around the 35 minute mark in the movie, not the half way point. I love this score. Both this and SPECTRE really did it for me this year. I wasn't as keen on THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL or THEY NAMED ME MALALA, but I also didn't see those films.    Posted:   Dec 16, 2015 - 11:53 PM     By:   Gunnar   (Member) Right, it wasn't that long until music came in. What I also meant to say: Having the opening (catching Abel) play out basically without any dialogue was a wonderful idea. It made me appreciate the setting much more and drew me right into the story. And I guess it was also a nod to classic films that also quite often explained much more through images and actions than through dialogue.    Posted:   Dec 17, 2015 - 1:09 AM     By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member) dp    Posted:   Dec 17, 2015 - 1:10 AM     By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member) My estimate was 'Rain' came in at about 30 minutes. Score is used so well in this film, none of the wall to wall nonsense. One of the year's best imo.    Posted:   Dec 17, 2015 - 9:29 AM     By:   Pedestrian Wolf   (Member) I like the music on its own, but it really irritated me in the film. That cue "Rain" really sticks out like a sore thumb to me - why spend so much time reconstructing the cinematography and mise-en-scene of a 1960s spy film if you're just going to layer contemporary electronic Newman music over it? Much of my other issues with the score I blame on Spielberg, as I had the same issues with Newman's music here as I often do with Williams' scores for the director's later day dramas. The director's tendency to take intimate scenes that work just fine on their own and underline them with sentimental patriotic music just feels tacky to me, as though Spielberg doesn't trust the actors to get the point across on their own. And in some instances, as with the last scene on the train, the patriotic music actually steamrolled over the darker ironies suggested by the material. It makes me wonder what the film would have looked and sounded like if the Coens had directed their own script.    Posted:   Dec 30, 2015 - 5:16 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Sunlit Silence, Ejection Protocol, The Wall and Homecoming are 4 fantastic tracks. Trademark Thomas Newman no doubt, but bloody brilliant.    Posted:   Dec 30, 2015 - 5:35 AM     By:   McD   (Member) I like the music on its own, but it really irritated me in the film. That cue "Rain" really sticks out like a sore thumb to me - why spend so much time reconstructing the cinematography and mise-en-scene of a 1960s spy film if you're just going to layer contemporary electronic Newman music over it? Much of my other issues with the score I blame on Spielberg, as I had the same issues with Newman's music here as I often do with Williams' scores for the director's later day dramas. The director's tendency to take intimate scenes that work just fine on their own and underline them with sentimental patriotic music just feels tacky to me, as though Spielberg doesn't trust the actors to get the point across on their own. And in some instances, as with the last scene on the train, the patriotic music actually steamrolled over the darker ironies suggested by the material. It makes me wonder what the film would have looked and sounded like if the Coens had directed their own script. I perhaps wouldn't let Spielberg off so lightly (much of the film was awful no matter how it was scored) but otherwise agree completely. This is a dreadful film score in every way, even if it might work just fine on CD. The scene with Hanks in court working his appeal is as good an example of how not to score a scene in a (supposedly) mature film as any you could find. Perhaps the scene would survive best with no music at all, but it certainly didn't need cheesy patriotism turned up to 11. It seemed that neither director nor composer had a single clue about what they were doing. Having no problem with Newman before, I had already stated on here a few months ago that He Named Me Malala was the worst film score i've ever heard - a film about martyr-happy brainwashed teenagers scored like The Goonies - and this comes close. A disastrous year for the composer.    Posted:   Dec 30, 2015 - 6:35 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) You boys must really hate The Golden Age of film music then!    Posted:   Jan 7, 2016 - 2:12 PM     By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member) Anyone who prefers listening in chronological order, here you go: 05 Rain (1:21) 07 The Article (1:36) 04 Standing Man (2:11) 03 Ejection Protocol (1:56) 02 Sunlit Silence (4:04) 01 Hall of Trade Unions, Moscow (0:43) 09 Private Citizen (1:35) 11 West Berlin (1:12) 12 FriedrichstraBe Station (1:26) 10 The Impatient Plan (1:35) 06 Lt. Francis Gary Powers (3:04) 08 The Wall (2:14) 13 Glienicke Bridge (10:51) 14 Homecoming (7:46) 15 Bridge of Spies (End Title) (6:57) The OST, incidentally, is complete    Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 9:10 AM     By:   Juanki   (Member) I watched the movie for first time and found Thomas Newman score extraordinary remarkable. Newman's sound certainly matched Spielberg direction and the results are very good indeed. I read someplace Thomas Newman was on autopilot on this. I disagree, it's just his voice and style with orchestra that makes it resemble some of his previous work. Anyway, the score is pretty much original and fresh to the wonderful spy plot. Highly recommended.     General Discussion: Thomas Newman - BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)    << < 15 16 17  >   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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