There’s a niche of movie music that I really enjoy, and that’s when an orchestral score breaks out into a full rock-and-roll statement of the movie’s main theme, expressing it with maximum propulsion, urgency, and emotion.
Here are three favorites of mine:
The 3:00 mark of track 25 (“Let Her Go or Die”) on “Shoot to Kill”.
The 5:18 mark of track 20 (“Jennings / El Ataque / La Cruz”) on “Wrath of God”.
The 5:24 mark of track 16 (“...Neville Crashes Through...”) on “The Omega Man”.
Can you think of similar examples you’d like to share?
Not quite sure what you mean -- do you also include main themes that have a rock vibe (but not necessarily with an orchestral intro)?
Elfman's main theme for TO DIE FOR has several grungey parts (of course, the film also employs hard rock like Nailbomb, so it's in line with that).
Listen to the examples I listed and consider them in context.
These movies have main themes that are frequently stated, but only at a key juncture is the main theme given a rock treatment.
Well, I guess “The Omega Man” features several rock renditions of Neville’s theme, but the one in “Neville Breaks Through” is the most dynamic of them all.
jkheiser, I think this might fit the bill - John Williams' THE EIGER SANCTION, in the track "Friends and Enemies". It's mostly quite contemplative in mood until the rock outburst which the track ends with. Listen to that guitar! From my memory, it's not in the film. The album was a re-recording, wasn't it?
The YouTube link to that track is only the rockin' final part, not the preceding contemplative music.
jkheiser, I think this might fit the bill - John Williams' THE EIGER SANCTION, in the track "Friends and Enemies". It's mostly quite contemplative in mood until the rock outburst which the track ends with. Listen to that guitar! From my memory, it's not in the film. The album was a re-recording, wasn't it?
The YouTube link to that track is only the rockin' final part, not the preceding contemplative music.
jkheiser, I think this might fit the bill - John Williams' THE EIGER SANCTION, in the track "Friends and Enemies". It's mostly quite contemplative in mood until the rock outburst which the track ends with. Listen to that guitar! From my memory, it's not in the film. The album was a re-recording, wasn't it?
The YouTube link to that track is only the rockin' final part, not the preceding contemplative music.
Slightly off-topic - and replying to myself again... but I zapped through a particularly terrible YT upload of the film, dubbed into Polish, and that "rock" track does appear - but not as a continuation of the previous "Friends and Enemies" contemplative material. It just kind of bursts in when George Kennedy first appears driving a jeep in the desert. No virtuoso guitar - it just fades out - and the orchestration and rhythmic punctuations are clearly different from the (great) OST.
Just thought I'd mention that. Maybe more appropriate for one of THE EIGER SANCTION threads. Did we have one about the differences between the original score and the album?
Probably a number of instances in "Kull The Conqueror" (Joel Goldsmith). But between the rock parts ad electric guitar, I was never able to stomach the score.
