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No matter how many viewings, how many listens, how many threads, how many years...when Shoeless Joe looks up in a moment of contemplation and then disappears into the cornfield for the last time...the wail of the trumpet...and denouement of lower brass...an all-timer for this baseball and FS lifer.
yes the scene hits hard, especially as one gets older and more sentimental. I loved the film as a 20 year old in 1988 but as a 53 year old, it's on another level in terms of its significance. Also, they just don't make 'em like this any more.
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No matter how many viewings, how many listens, how many threads, how many years...when Shoeless Joe looks up in a moment of contemplation and then disappears into the cornfield for the last time...the wail of the trumpet...and denouement of lower brass...an all-timer for this baseball and FS lifer.
yes the scene hits hard, especially as one gets older and more sentimental. I loved the film as a 20 year old in 1988 but as a 53 year old, it's on another level in terms of its significance. Also, they just don't make 'em like this any more.
At which point in the clip does the trumpet wail occur? I'll have to get around to watching the movie one of these days.
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$50 for one cue (albeit a long one)? That's a big ask, especially for a digital version.
The John Williams Signature series cost more and they are often only the Main Titles or whatnot. Plus it might have to do with licensing fees to the studio as well.
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With all respect to fans of the film, I saw it in the theater at the time or release, and I didn't like it at all. I don't remember who did the music or what it sounded like. They are really charging $50 for one lousy cue?
It was by this upstart kid named James Homer or something. I think he did a few film scores.
Oh, and its $50 dollars for sheet music not a digital music cue.
Correct and a full score at that- meaning all parts. Great to study the orchestration choices of Mr Horner for this scene
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At which point in the clip does the trumpet wail occur? I'll have to get around to watching the movie one of these days.
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I was never a fan of the film either.
Saw it in a cinema in L.A in 1989.
I love a good fantasy drama ghost story as much as the next guy, but this one just never made any sense to me.
No internal logic or rules.
Just silly wish fulfilment and maudlin melodrama.
This has been my long held impression as well. I guess I'll have to get around to it sooner or later, if only to confirm my intuition.
However, I've never really enjoyed this particular Jimbo effort because by 1989 I had been on to him for a long, long time. The score, or what I recall of it, just seemed so derivative of much better works (no surprise). Decades later, I'm still baffled at how much some fans slavishly sing the praises of Horner's music. I mean, would you respect and admire a public official who constantly lied to you? Oh wait....
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At which point in the clip does the trumpet wail occur? I'll have to get around to watching the movie one of these days.
Watch the clip starting at :51. It occurs a few seconds later as he is one step away from entering and vanishing. A simple 3-note phrase that for me serves as the end of Act 3, as it were, with the rest an epilogue. This is because the T-Zonish fantasy began with his arrival at night, the core of the story plays out and concludes with his line, "No Ray, it was you" and then he departs under the late afternoon sun. The "wail," if you will, signals his pupose has been accomplished.
Got it. That's the most memorable motif of the score. Thanks.
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