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Posting this last photo is against all the laws of God and Man....
You must burn in hell for posting it.
:-)
Ford A. Thaxton
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There is a STAR WARS TV Show, it's called "STAR WARS-THE CLONE WARS", it's scored by Kevin Kiner.
Ian Fraser's work, for a smaller ensemble, on "The Star Wars Holiday Special" was also very interesting.
I'd enjoy a CD of that score, for what it's worth . . .
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Jul 2, 2012 - 2:40 AM
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Like it or loathe it, it changed modern film scores. I also think it is one of Ridley Scott's best use of scores in a film. Yes Sir Ridley, I'm thinking of Prometheus - where some of the tracks just don't seem appropriate to what is happening on the screen - but not with Black Rain.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any better... MV and the Lalaland posse took me by surprise. That one came out of left field.
Black Rain is THE ONE Zimmer score I never stopped playing ever since I've seen the movie first. I can't really explain why, but movie and score hold a very special place in my heart. Yes I know, Black Rain is mostly an un-original, style-over-substance cop thriller and all negative that's been said IS valid - but still I find myself returning to this one more often than to any other Scott movie. It has a great cast (Michael Douglas -with unusual hairstyle- at the height of his career, a wonderful flashy Andy Garcia and an always somber Ken Takakura. I sure wish Ken had done more western movies, since his japanese features are hard to get here), fantastic camera and lighting and an intelligent and spot-on Zimmer score.
Unlike most of his other action scores of the late 80s/early-to-mid 90s (Broken Arrow comes to mind), where Zimmer constructed orchestral/synth noise around an admittedly lovely main theme (or left out the lovely main theme at all, like in Peacemaker) in Black Rain the action scoring never loses its melody and I love the moments where the gentle "Nick and Masa theme" shines through all the mayhem.
There are countless scenes where the music is spot-on (e.g. when Douglas pulls the gun out of its holster or in the final scene), no wonder future directors felt like they needed something similar in their features. Sadly, none of them ever made me feel the way like the one that started it all. Don't get me wrong, I do have many of the later Zimmer scores, but most of them make me feel tired after some time. Not so Black Rain.
I don't know how many times I have listened to the MCA album (having bought it immediately after my first viewing of the film), but ever since I regretted that the album only features a small suite. The Gregg Allman song is quite good (and the prospect of having the film version which is played during the opening titles is great too), but the rest of the pop stuff is pretty much forgettable, especially the UB40 song totally feels out of place, given the dark nature of the film (and it sure doesn't fit an Osaka skyline at night).
For the very first time I think of buying two copies of a release. CAN'T WAIT!!
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Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any better... MV and the Lalaland posse took me by surprise. That one came out of left field.
Black Rain is THE ONE Zimmer score I never stopped playing ever since I've seen the movie first. I can't really explain why, but movie and score hold a very special place in my heart. Yes I know, Black Rain is mostly an un-original, style-over-substance cop thriller and all negative that's been said IS valid - but still I find myself returning to this one more often than to any other Scott movie. It has a great cast (Michael Douglas -with unusual hairstyle- at the height of his career, a wonderful flashy Andy Garcia and an always somber Ken Takakura. I sure wish Ken had done more western movies, since his japanese features are hard to get here), fantastic camera and lighting and an intelligent and spot-on Zimmer score.
Unlike most of his other action scores of the late 80s/early-to-mid 90s (Broken Arrow comes to mind), where Zimmer constructed orchestral/synth noise around an admittedly lovely main theme (or left out the lovely main theme at all, like in Peacemaker) in Black Rain the action scoring never loses its melody and I love the moments where the gentle "Nick and Masa theme" shines through all the mayhem.
There are countless scenes where the music is spot-on (e.g. when Douglas pulls the gun out of its holster or in the final scene), no wonder future directors felt like they needed something similar in their features. Sadly, none of them ever made me feel the way like the one that started it all. Don't get me wrong, I do have many of the later Zimmer scores, but most of them make me feel tired after some time. Not so Black Rain.
I don't know how many times I have listened to the MCA album (having bought it immediately after my first viewing of the film), but ever since I regretted that the album only features a small suite. The Gregg Allman song is quite good (and the prospect of having the film version which is played during the opening titles is great too), but the rest of the pop stuff is pretty much forgettable, especially the UB40 song totally feels out of place, given the dark nature of the film (and it sure doesn't fit an Osaka skyline at night).
For the very first time I think of buying two copies of a release. CAN'T WAIT!!
You can also add that the one piece of music where Nick tears apart the apartment. That's been used in countless trailers around that period of time.
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You can also add to that the cue that plays right before Nick tears the apartment apart - the scene where Nick goes through Charlie's possessions. The orginal soundtrack did not contain the film version so here is hoping the La La Land version does.
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