The "Lorenzo's Oil" trailer music is quite lovely! I did a little research and it's original trailer music composed by David Bergeaud, but to my knowledge it has never been released. Does anybody know if Bergeaud sent out promos of his music (maybe sometime in the '90s) and included this on there?
Loved this trailer when I first saw it in theaters. I had hopes that the music in the trailer was the film's score (as with HOFFA and others). No such luck. It was apparently an original trailer score.
The TV spots for Lorenzo's Oil used James Horner's Land Before Time score.
This teaser, a year before the film was to be released, not only fooled me it fooled John Williams. This imaginative teaser suggests a film of high adventure and flights of fantasy. With little actual footage to work from (but this teaser that sparks all the possibilities) Williams wrote his theme for this excellent intro. Little did he know Spielberg, who had done ET, would fail in practically every area suggested, which is why nothing in the score is as good as this first inspired writing:
Not the majority of folks posting here, but it's interesting to me that a few of you have very selective memories. There have been a couple of mentions of how one misses the days when trailers had great music from the films they advertised and such. That is looking at the past with rose colored glasses. I would be willing to bet that MOST film's trailers do not feature the music as it exists in the final film. And it has been this way from the beginning. It's one of the reasons why there are so many examples being posted here and you can probably find thousands more. Even looking at old trailers from the early days of Hollywood can be deceptive because you can't be sure you are looking at the original pre-release trailer. I've seen plenty where that original trailer has music not from the film but trailers done later (for re-releases or for wide release after the premiere) contain the film's music.
The trailer for Watchmen had a killer Philip Glass (or imitation Glass) cue that had me jazzed for a similar-sounding score. Alas, twas not to be. Decent movie, but still...
Oh an Firefox. Watching it again the music strikes me as bland and without personality. And it didn't prepare me for my first Maurice Jarre score, which say what you will, brims with personality!
Does anyone actually know what this music at the end of the Firefox trailer is - I recently picked up a trailer blu-ray compilation and I was really struck by it.
I remember seeing this trailer and falling in love with the music (after the 30 second mark) and assuming it was from the JNH score (it's not unlike stuff he could have been writing during this period).
It took me years to find out what the piece actually was.
There have been a couple of mentions of how one misses the days when trailers had great music from the films they advertised and such. That is looking at the past with rose colored glasses. I would be willing to bet that MOST film's trailers do not feature the music as it exists in the final film.
I suppose people tend to assume that since you're seeing footage from an upcoming movie, you're hearing the music as well. But this was very often the case.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a lot of trailers which featured their respective films' scores...
Psycho Lawrence of Arabia A Man For All Seasons Doctor Zhivago Patton The Omen Capricorn One Chariots of Fire Poltergeist The Mission Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands Richard III Titanic Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The teaser for Rambo: First Blood Part II even had music specifically written for it by Jerry Goldsmith.
There have been a couple of mentions of how one misses the days when trailers had great music from the films they advertised and such. That is looking at the past with rose colored glasses. I would be willing to bet that MOST film's trailers do not feature the music as it exists in the final film.
I suppose people tend to assume that since you're seeing footage from an upcoming movie, you're hearing the music as well. But this was very often the case.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a lot of trailers which featured their respective films' scores...
Psycho Lawrence of Arabia A Man For All Seasons Doctor Zhivago Patton The Omen Capricorn One Chariots of Fire Poltergeist The Mission Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands Richard III Titanic Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The teaser for Rambo: First Blood Part II even had music specifically written for it by Jerry Goldsmith.
I still maintain that it is more often NOT the case. Sure, anyone can rattle off trailers that do, but very often there is more than one trailer and sometimes the earliest trailers DO NOT contain the film's score. Often because it hasn't been written yet. One example on your list, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, has only a tiny snippet of the Jarre score in the ORIGINAL trailer. Most of the music in that trailer, especially in the last half, is not from the film.
This might be the wrong thread for this but this has been bothering my since I was a little kid watching the included trailer on my JPIII CD back in the day--what is the piece that starts at 1:05? It sounds like a copy of Ludlow's Demise from The Lost World but I could be completely wrong. Is this something from John Beal? Any ideas?
