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That was recorded overseas, wasn't it? Music Box Records has been releasing a number of scores limited to 500 units. Maybe they could handle this.
I don't know how the label profits from 500 units; I recall one label said in order to turn a profit, at least 1,000 units need to move.
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I haven't seen this yet, but I wonder if it can really be as bad as they say.
It definitely has 'Lawrence' as it's template, but knowing how Herzog works, he won't just spell out what he's saying. The 'Queen of the Desert' is an archetype as old as time, Sekhmet, Kali etc.. That 'sexually self-repressing 'negative mother' complex which leads to desert-loving Englishmen as Bolt put it, was present in both men and women of that post-Victorian era. She tortures the men she attracts, not by active cruelty, but by passive, and devours what children she might rarely have, all in the name of sacrifice to high ideals.
Herzog would see that general trend as an element in what helped to bugger up modern Syrian colonialism, even though she herself is a sympathetic and revered figure to many Arabs, like Lawrence. I'm betting Werner will play this angle.
So how bad can it be? The music sounds good, but the intervals and even some figures are a clear reference to Jarre, so it's not that original, a deliberate reference.
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