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or if Jerry Goldsmith scored an Akira Kurosawa movie
Well, in a strange, roundabout way, he did. I read an entertaining book written by the director Richard Fleischer who directed Tora, Tora, Tora, which had not just Fleischer directing but had directorial input from one or two others, such was the scale of the film. And one of them was Kurosawa. Kurosawa's meticulous way of working didn't fit in with a Hollywood epic that was chewing up large amounts of budget, and so, after filming a few scenes, his services were no longer required. Fleischer confirmed that at least one scene of Kurosawa's remains in the movie, which he called 'the worst scene in the entire picture'. So Goldsmith, if he didn't get to score a Kurosawa film, at least scored one with Kurosawa footage in it.
That's right. My statement was based upon Goldsmith's writing for the Japanese footage in TORA! TORA! TORA!. My daydreaming on this topic lead me to ponder on what if Goldsmith had scored HIGH AND LOW or DERSU UZALA...
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA ... And the tricky emotional underlay with these two unsympathetic royals he might have gone the distance to capture, even moreso than the wonderful Richard Rodney Bennett (who seems to keep a bit of distance here).
Wonderful thread idea, Morricone, and I have to second you on Goldsmith, as much as I live Bennett's score. But Nicholas and Alexandra themselves are unsympathetic!?! I think the whole *point* of the movie, and the general obsession that these historical figures have engendered ever since their tragic assassination, is that, despite the enormous calamity resulting from the rule of this last Imperial couple, they remain *extremely* sympathetic figures!
Would love to see how Goldsmith would have captured that intimate family pathos, contrasted with the epic events the film covers....
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FYI:
Disques Cinemusique will be issuing LE RAT D'AMERIQUE by Georges Garvarentz.
To my knowledge, LE RAT D'AMERIQUE is possibly the only soundtrack album from a film directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco [La fille aux yeux d'or, Le grand Meaulnes]
Somehow, Garvarentz got this opportunity to score an Albicocco. Jarre, Delerue & Legrand all "missed" this opportunity...
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