I can't imagine this one troubling too many Top 10 John Scott film score lists. Not that it's bad or anything. There's nothing wrong with it in any way. It's got a pleasant main theme that evokes a nice broad feeling of the outdoors/wilderness and some vibey 'folk' moments, plus tension/suspense scenes augmented by synths and guitar. The orchestration is - typically for John Scott - very good and the performance of the orchestra is solid. It's all just a bit generic and overly-familiar and in comparison to many other Scott scores, it's somehow less memorable or inspired, to me anyway. I will re-visit it from time to time and I highlighted about 8 tracks that stood out (mainly the latter stuff on the CD, from around track 15 - Injured Wolf - onwards). Any thoughts from other 'Scotties' (bobb, Kari, ToneRow) on this one?
I can't imagine this one troubling too many Top 10 John Scott film score lists. Not that it's bad or anything. There's nothing wrong with it in any way. It's got a pleasant main theme that evokes a nice broad feeling of the outdoors/wilderness and some vibey 'folk' moments, plus tension/suspense scenes augmented by synths and guitar. The orchestration is - typically for John Scott - very good and the performance of the orchestra is solid. It's all just a bit generic and overly-familiar and in comparison to many other Scott scores, it's somehow less memorable or inspired, to me anyway. I will re-visit it from time to time and I highlighted about 8 tracks that stood out (mainly the latter stuff on the CD, from around track 15 - Injured Wolf - onwards). Any thoughts from other 'Scotties' (bobb, Kari, ToneRow) on this one?
I saw the film a few months ago, which prompted me to get this CD. I have not played it yet past the main title. I will try to find a moment to really explore the score.
Also not my favorite Scott by a long, long shot - I wouldn't even put it in my top 40 probably. Especially compared to the titanic work that is his JULES VERNE music that was to come a few years later.
John's a humble man and not one to speak ill of people or projects really, but this is one I know first hand he just dreaded for a whole laundry list of reasons, a few of which he speaks about in that Jon Burlingame interview on Youtube.
For me, the highlights are the big send-offs of both the finale and end title cues, which include dramatic recapitulations of the very nice "family theme".
As I recall the CD itself is exhaustively long too, wasn't it? Been a while and it's not currently loaded into iTunes.