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Aug 13, 2016 - 1:50 PM
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Morricone
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Well top 5 is, depending on how long you have lived, pretty narrowing. It also begs us to grease our prejudices. When I off-handedly put mine together I noticed they tended to gravitate toward silver age scores. Now I could huff and puff about how that is perfect because it is when the Viennese style composers were being replaced by more expansive ones that brought film scoring into so many diverse directions. But then if I think about Max Steiner and his score to the 1933 KING KONG and how he pushed his Austrian based sound toward African rhythms. And then I think of his action cues that go right to the heart of every juvenile male out there (including Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen and Forrest Ackerman). Those cues make me think that every comic book composer out there owes something to Max and that score.
And then on the other end of the spectrum when I think that the simple tales that began the cinema during the silent era and early sound have become more complex over the years. Even the complex scores golden Age composers took on in the 40s and 50 s did not yield as popular a following as their straight simple adventure, suspense or romantic ones. So, outside of comic book scores, today’s films don’t create the environment for as many “pop” items. And yet when I think of Alexandre Desplat’s 2014 IMITATION GAME (which I have seen 3 times) and the emotional impact it has, I have come to the conclusion that it is good as it gets. When the lead character’s assistant tells him she rode through towns that wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for him, I lose it. It belongs with A PATCH OF BLUE, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE MIRACLE WORKER or THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME along the lines of pushing emotional buttons.
Being an old fart myself I think the set-up for your question is meant to be a knee-jerk declaration about how much better it was when I was a kid. But I take these questions to heart and say it simply isn’t so. And I hope the fans who only love newer scores take that into consideration too.
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In case you're wondering:
THE BIG COUNTRY
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
EL CID
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
THE WILD BUNCH
THE LAST VALLEY
STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
Mr. Worly; I love most of the scores you listed above, and since I hadn't heard The Last Valley or The Wild Bunch, I thought they would be worth looking into. So far I've checked out The Last Valley and loved it, so thank you for the introduction. I guess now I need to look into The Wild Bunch.
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Matthew Margeson's Eddie The Eagle is not far from my Top 5 ever.
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re HTTYD
Its is just one of those scores that qualify an "instant classic. Film score afficianados recognize it's superiority on first listen
That is rare to be sure. I thin BTTF had the same effect on listeners back in the 80's
check it out!
brm
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