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So I was on this two-hour train trip today (job-related trip every Wednesday), listening to the CD's I had brought with me - Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" and a Jean Michel Jarre techno remix album called "Odyssey Through O2". Both of these (and especially the first, of course) had that chug-along train rhythm as base. It made me think about film music that served some of the same purpose. There's always something very entertaining and appealing with film composers trying to emulate the steaming pace of a train through the music.
For example, there's the energetic main theme from Goldsmith's THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. Then there's the circus train sequence music that Williams composed for INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
Any other examples?
Yes, I love Andre Previn's main title to Bad Day at Black Rock with the old passenger Diesel racing through the expanses of the American Southwest!
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Superman, both when Clark races the train at the beginning and at the end as Superman racing to fix the tracks.
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There's a very onomatopoeic few seconds at the start of the track "Death of Kerim" (sorry - should probably have given a spoiler alert there!) in From Russia With Love.
Because it's less than ten seconds, Barry probably thought he'd go to town on it, and it mirrors exactly the rhythm of the steam train in a way that might sound a bit corny if it were extended beyond that.
Chris
Don't believe your spoiling it for too many out here, who hasn't seen at 43 year old Bond flick? But the Map montage music Barry wrote for the train sequence is strongly evocative of a locomotive.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Ron and Harry are in the flying Ford escaping the train.
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I think Goldsmith does a great, rousing train theme in his main title for BREAKHEART PASS.
YES!!
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Arthur Honegger was a classical composer who also did music for ballet, opera, and Abel Gance's 1927 film "Napoleon."
And, his piece "Pacific 231" is a musical portrait of a steam locomotive.
-- Jon
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Actually, thinking about it, how about THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (even if the train seems to be moving rather slowly at times)set to a wonderful Elmer Bernstein tune and -
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, Cyril Mockridge's Paramount score which seems to lean on Alfred Newman material (?) but is nonetheless an exciting and vibrant theme...
- JMM
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In a rare case of scoring on-screen action for the composer, track 9 from Nyman's score for THE CLAIM has a chug-chug rhythm.
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