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Dec 11, 2024 - 8:54 PM
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DS
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I really love Delerue's "Main Title" and especially how it plays over the image of the train approaching the camera. He was clearly asked to write something along the lines of the "Main Title" from "The Shining" but he made it wholly his own. I especially love when the theme breaks for the choir, and how it finally resolves with the choir. Lovely and very spooky! I'm surprised by the harsh criticism it's receiving here.
I quite like James Horner. His "Something Wicked" is beautifully written, orchestrated, and conducted, but I don't feel a lot of it is right for the film. I love Horner's "Prologue," which yes, is wonderful and fits the scene like a glove, but for me his score peaks there. The "Main Title" is very cool, but it - along with most of his score - is such fantasy-adventure music, and I don't think it's right for this film. Horner's music sounds like it should be in a film like "The Goonies" or "Hook" (yes, I know those came later). I see Delerue's comparatively dirge-like approach to be far more appropriate, and I think he did such a great job. I like Horner's score but feel it plays better away from the film (aside from the "Prologue"). Anyway, apples and oranges.
Regarding Bradbury being largely responsible for throwing Delerue's score out, it seems like he might have been. Once Jack Clayton's cut was rejected, Bradbury took a certain amount of control and was awarded some power in the decision making going forward. The addition of the prologue was a good choice. If Bradbury was responsible for the spider scene and the mirror re-shoot, then those additions were not good ideas in my opinion (I mean, this movie is not "Kingdom of the Spiders"). And I don't think Delerue's score should have been rejected, if Bradbury indeed spearheaded that decision. Bradbury is great, but novelists taking over a film adaptation from a veteran director seems risky. I'm just thinking what Stephen King would have done to Kubrick's "The Shining" had he been able to take some control over it - I think he would have made far more drastic changes to it than Bradbury made here, and may have even campaigned to replace Shelley Duvall, whom he thought was miscast.
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