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Best spotted movie?
Luchino Visconti's "The Leopard."
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I think the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE is very well spotted. The music dissappears for portions of the film to great dramatic effect.
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Scott Bradley's Tom and Jerry cartoons!!
Unbeatable in the spotting department.
although on second thoughts, Im not sure they count because they had music virtually all the way through - but it was just so often used very cleverly and effectively at all the right moments.
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Oct 14, 2007 - 4:37 PM
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vwing
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Back to the Future. I didn't realize this until I watched it recently, but pretty much the entire first act of the movie is entirely unscored except for some source rock music.
The first score notes coincide with the first science fiction-y shot of the movie: where the back of the truck opens to reveal, for the first time, the DeLorean. I just love that a director planned it out so that there was no score music for so much time in the movie, and brings it in when the real story starts. So many other directors would've dominated that first part of the movie with generic "happy" music (I'm thinking strains of John Debney), and it helps the movie so much that he did not do this.
Then in the rest of the movie, you have very good and efficient use of the score, with the themes popping up in different variations (my favorite being when it serves as counterpoint to the end of "Earth Angel").
Also, Field of Dreams. I love the way it turns from an ethereal, synth-y score(I think the main theme is even played on synths early on when Shoeless Joe first appears and plays),and gradually becomes full-blown orchhestral score at the end. Wonderful progression of music that parallels the wonderful progression of the movie.
With regards to Star Wars, it is actually very well-spotted, which is so surprising considering how horribly the prequels are spotted. I still can't believe the Arena theme was used when Anakin was leading the clones into the Jedi Temple, and not some new original, dramatic music. And that's only one of the dozens of offenses the prequels committed in the score department.
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