It's a lovely and indeed very autumnal, peaceful work. It fits the tonal and visual qualities of the film perfectly - The color pallet, the setting, the earthen and old world aesthetic.
It's a lovely and indeed very autumnal, peaceful work. It fits the tonal and visual qualities of the film perfectly - The color pallet, the setting, the earthen and old world aesthetic. It's very different than most of JNH's work, and while it's not one I visit as often as say WYATT EARP or WATERWORLD or ALIVE, it's still a terrific score that evokes a very specific time and place. In that regard it's a mature piece of scoring for sure.
I wonder if Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending" was Howard's point of inspiration. It sure seems cut from the same mold of writing for solo violin over gentle orchestral support.
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Agreed completely. A particular favourite is 'The Vote', which has the wonderful violin/string marriage at the end. Perfect.
I came across 'The Lark Ascending' this week (being played at a concert I'm attending) and it's a beautiful piece that's very cinematic. Certainly give it a listen if The Village is to your taste.
The only negative thing to say about the score is the bizarre album - completely out of film order, and missing some wonderful highlights. Plus, it has the most anticlimactic ending cue I've ever heard on a score release.
I'd buy a complete set of this and Signs in a heartbeat.
Love this score. Agreed that it misses out some wonderful material but can't complain about the order. I find it's a well put together album. I don't care one jot about film order I just like a good listening experience and I can't complain about The Village for that.
Rather fond of the film as well. Gentle little story, no real surprises but it trundles nicely along. Some great visuals and a lovely colour palette which the score picks up on. As said above "autumnal" sums it up nicely. Is this the last decent film from MNS ?
It's a lovely and indeed very autumnal, peaceful work. It fits the tonal and visual qualities of the film perfectly - The color pallet, the setting, the earthen and old world aesthetic.
Perfect description!
What can I say. I am to evocative film music descriptions what Adam Sandler is to great comedy.
Well, I'd like to thank this thread's bumpers for reminding me how blissful I might have been half a decade ago. I must've been in my "ex-John Williams" phase, what with me remarking that I couldn't find his action music accommodating to my hoite-toite, mostly-Goldsmith-derived action music fetishes. I've given up that passe life and have welcomed Johnny back into my loving arms. I was just listening to Minority Report, a score filled to the brim with truly exciting action and suspense cues!
As for JNH, I'm still not crazy about a lot of his suspense and action music (though Signs is the hallmark for great scoring from the year 2003) but overall he's a swell guy.
Any tea leaf rumblings regarding an expansion of The Village (or any of James Newton Howard's Shyamalan scores)? Having waited so long, I'm seriously considering biting the bullet on a digital copy, which I'd rather not do, but something tells me these will start rolling out like Autobots the moment I do. :/
Was anything of value omitted from those? All I can think of from the Howard/M.Night collaborations that lacks on the available albums, and deserves a revisit by record labels is Last Airbender, only because it had its choir omitted from currently available album. It's otherwise a brilliant program.
Was anything of value omitted from those? All I can think of from the Howard/M.Night collaborations that lacks on the available albums, and deserves a revisit by record labels is Last Airbender, only because it had its choir omitted from currently available album. It's otherwise a brilliant program.
the original MAIN TITLE was not released - it has a more dramatic influenze compared to the final vesion that was written in the style of horror
Any tea leaf rumblings regarding an expansion of The Village (or any of James Newton Howard's Shyamalan scores)? Having waited so long, I'm seriously considering biting the bullet on a digital copy, which I'd rather not do, but something tells me these will start rolling out like Autobots the moment I do. :/
Then do it!
I want a c&c version of The Village, my favourite score from the Shyamalan movies.
Any tea leaf rumblings regarding an expansion of The Village (or any of James Newton Howard's Shyamalan scores)? Having waited so long, I'm seriously considering biting the bullet on a digital copy, which I'd rather not do, but something tells me these will start rolling out like Autobots the moment I do. :/
Then do it!
I want a c&c version of The Village, my favourite score from the Shyamalan movies.
Agreed! And release the damn film on bluray while you're at it!
That's good to hear there isn't much missing from Signs, Unbreakable, The Village, and Lady in the Water—maybe? Maybe I will have to "take one for the team" on these and dare the universe to bring their c&c's into existence.
I imagine if anyone can, La La Land can? The score under the lullaby early on is much missed by me. And did someone say the Main Titles are missing? The score in film order also improves the listening experience, for me at least.
I imagine if anyone can, La La Land can? The score under the lullaby early on is much missed by me. And did someone say the Main Titles are missing? The score in film order also improves the listening experience, for me at least.
Absolutely better in film order. What a bizarre jumble that album was.
I love this score, yet I always thought the last track, "The Shed Not to Be Used", was a rather odd queue to end the album with. It never felt like an end title to me, obviously because it wasn't the last track of the movie... This was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6IgwbTYnrI
It would have been great if the credit music was featured on the album. "The Shed Not to Be Used" is a beautiful piece, yet it lacks the energy to wrap up the album, making it feel incomplete.
Aye, this score and his LADY IN THE WATER absolutely need rearranging into film order for the best musical experience. JW knows why he (JNH) threw all the tracks up in the air to see where they landed for the CD releases!!
Aye, this score and his LADY IN THE WATER absolutely need rearranging into film order for the best musical experience. JW knows why he (JNH) threw all the tracks up in the air to see where they landed for the CD releases!!
Normally I don't agree that scores should be in film order for the best listening experience, but in those 2 cases I'd completely agree. They also both have cues that repeat in the films but weren't on the CDs. I'd love complete versions of these.
