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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      General Discussion: Movies With No Score Or Music     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 5:25 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) Hey guys, I am sure this has been discussed a few times before but I am having a heard time digging up info on it in any threads here. What I am wondering is what films have been made without dramatic(off location) score? I know of the following: Rope The Birds Rear Window Lifeboat What else? Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 5:54 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The China Syndrome.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 5:57 PM     By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member) Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy (Karloff), Freaks - if movies this old count. It wasn't the norm to have underscore back then. More "recent": The Blair Witch Project, Fail Safe, I Spit on Your Grave, Forbidden Planet (eletronic tonalities - this might qualify as music to someone from Altair).    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:03 PM     By:   Jesse Hopkins   (Member) Hey, I was going to start this thread. Reason being, I am a composer and there is so little quality film to score. So I figured I would put some examples on my webpage of how I would score quality films that have no soundtracks.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:14 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) Well Forbidden Planet doesn't count. I asked for movies with no dramatic score (off-location). Meaning only music that is playing on-set (car radio, etc), and no music that represents the drama of a moment or scene(s) (off-screen / off-location). Forbidden Planet uses pitched and unpitched electronics to convey emotion. That I a score, so it doesn't count. And no silent films either. Preferably only those of the cinematic narrative variety (ie: edited scenes intercut from different angles and in the suspension of belief that you are watching a literal narrative). Tell me more about FAIL SAFE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:28 PM     By:   swoony   (Member) The Big Chill Cast Away...well for most of the movie    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:39 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) I think you mean: "I spit on your corpse!" Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:41 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) What a great list we're making. Lot's of things I've forgot about. Big Chill also doesn't qualify though. Films that use music for dramatic narrative don't count. Songs, Score or Sound Design don't count really. The Birds get's away with it becuase the sounds aren't really sound design. They are intended to sound real and are intended to be "on-location" sounds. Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 6:43 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) The Big Chill Cast Away...well for most of the movie I think if we're going to include CAST AWAY than we can include COMA. But neither is devoid of dramatic score. Keep 'em comin' this is fascinating! Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 7:03 PM     By:   mgh   (Member) The Defiant Ones--the only music is a song that Sidney Poitier sings.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 7:07 PM     By:   Alexborn007   (Member) Network doesn't have any usage of music I believe. Some source material for the news/Beale Show broadcast openings, but that's about it.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 7:13 PM     By:   Alexcremers   (Member) The Homecoming (1973). Although Ian Holm puts on one song to dance with Vivien Merchant. See it, buy it, rent it! Acting doesn't get any better than this. -------------------- Alex Cremers    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 7:14 PM     By:   vinylscrubber   (Member) Evans, FAILSAFE is the serious version of DR. STRANGELOVE, as rendered from the Burdick/Wheeler novel by Sidney Lumet in his best black-and-white, straightforward, semi-documentary "New York style." It probably IS best done without music for maximum impact, but I find myself wondering what a really good, experimental spare score might have done for it. (I also suspect. . . not much!) If you haven't seen this, check it out at the first convenient moment. It kind of got lost in the shuffle of STRANGELOVE's success, but it's almost as good, with a superbly chosen cast at the top of their form.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 7:21 PM     By:   Grimsdyke   (Member) I am not sure if CATCH 22 counts !? Mika    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:02 PM     By:   Heath   (Member) Hey Alex and Vinylescrubber, great films. Both on my top ten, and nice to see them here. Rather than do another list, I'd offer a scored movie that could exist WITHOUT the music, and it's Chinatown. I think Goldsmith's score is a masterpiece, but Chinatown is one of those movies that has something in its condition which is entirely self-contained. Both its narrative flow and the editing structure simply don't require a musical subtext. However, the one Jerry gave it was brilliant anyway. It was the icing on a cake already iced. Any others? Cheers Heath    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:17 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) The Homecoming (1973). Although Ian Holm puts on one song to dance with Vivien Merchant. See it, buy it, rent it! Acting doesn't get any better than this. -------------------- Alex Cremers yeah, song usage like that is fine. In the BIG CHILL however songs were used for dramatic effect during montages of people doing things for instance that were definately not being heard on-location. The supposed "song score". I have not heard of this movie Alex. Cool. Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:19 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) Network doesn't have any usage of music I believe. Some source material for the news/Beale Show broadcast openings, but that's about it. Oh that's a cool one. Music for on-location is fine. Great find! Evan Evans    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:20 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) Come to think of it, does DR. STRANGELOVE have a score? E3    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:23 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) Recap of the list thus far: Lifeboat Network Rear Window The Homecoming Rope Failsafe The Defiant Ones The Birds I Spit on Your Corpse! The Blair Witch Project The China Syndrome    Posted:   Aug 26, 2004 - 9:26 PM     By:   evanevans   (Member) I did a search on IMdbPro and also found that Jeff Danna did not score the film but that he only wrote an opening and closing credits: The Grey Zone (2001) How about SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE? Does that have dramatic music? Evan Evans     General Discussion: Movies With No Score Or Music    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7   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

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