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Aug 16, 2015 - 3:27 AM
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Henry Jones
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Just coming back from the theater (yes, I'm chilean) and I came immediatly here to give you some information about the score.
First a few lines about the film. I think international audiences will be more engaged with this, for me at least it was just a surreal experience, seeing Chileans speaking english and so on. Not a great film, but it has some good scenes. Also it's weird for me to see our former Minister of Mining (Rodrigo Santoro's character) as the hero of the movie, since this politician is now being prosecuted in the middle of a financial and political scandal. I just can't separate the politics behind with the story itself. But that's just me.
Let's better talk about the score. As we know, Horner worked again with Tony Hinnigan and his great array of wind instruments, giving the score a complete taste of music from the Andes (I heard quenas and pan flutes). The main theme is a simple but beautiful piece that comes back through the film, more like a motif than a fully developed theme. It's on the opening credits played by Finnigan's quena and a guitar. The end credits gives another great rendition, first with the quena solo, but then goes to the strings (I think it's the only time) and I found it really beautiful to close the film.
There's one action cue in which Horner goes back to a sound that he's used a lot in the past, like a pattern of pan flutes in the background with a pulsating sound. Check the first seconds of "Alfred, Tristan, The Colonel, The Legend" from "Legends of the Fall" and you'll know what I'm talking about (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbHtJwHBps). That cue also uses strings to build up to the moment in which the mine collapses.
So, this work is mainly flutes and soft percusion from the Andes, guitar and strings. You won't hear bronzes, choir or vocal soloists, also no piano. I'm not sure if there's any score similar to this in Horner's filmography, but you can hear some ideas from previous works. Not a lot of music, but surely enough to fill a CD release.
Also important to note that NONE of the music used in the trailers are from Horner's score. It sounds totally different.
It's a nice little score by Horner, which he orchestrated himself along J.A.C. Redford (at least it was credited that way). If you have questions I'll try to answer as good as I can.
Cheers.
Thank you very much for your report, Felipe!
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Beware anyone wearing headphones. Holy shrill, one-channel sound!
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Beware anyone wearing headphones. Holy shrill, one-channel sound!
Clearly stereo and not shrill on this end, though sampled at 32 kHz (limiting the frequency response to a theoretical 16 kHz and actually brick-walled at 15 kHz).
I'm only getting it in the right channel. You must have magic ears!
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Yeah, there it sounds totally fine (other than the low-quality, of course).
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