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Nov 28, 2022 - 5:58 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Obviously with some basis in reality.
So, hoping Max Steiner scored BLACK PANTHER or Jerry Goldsmith scored EVERY FILM EVER is out of bounds.
But occasions where maybe the expected didn't happen, for whatever reasons (scheduling, hadn't connected yet).
Two major ones for me are...
THE COLOUR PURPLE (1985).
How I wish John Williams had been given the chance to score this flowing and sometimes bruising adaptation, instead of the Delerue-copying patchwork quilt score (11 co-composers?) it did get.
Not that it ain't nice, cos some of it really is. But still.
The other one is WESTWORLD (1973).
Again, the Fred Karlin score is decent and pretty effective, if a tad source music literal for the various worlds.
But every time I watch this film, I just wonder what Jerry Goldsmith would have brought to this subject matter, especially from his early 70s writing era, and taking into account his future scoring Michael Crichton films.
Two major 'what-if's' that I would have really loved to add to my score collection.
What are yours?
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Given that John Barry turned in an energized effort for The Living Daylights--and that Dalton was a refreshing change after all those Roger Moore films--I would say John Barry for License to Kill.
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I don't really wish for this movie to have a different scores for the reason that I don't like the one it has (I do), but it would have been really neat if John Barry had actually scored THE INCREDIBLES. That would have been a fine career cap off, ideally scored with both the jazzy James Bond vibe the makers wanted as well as Barry's melodic touch for the more emotional scenes. I remember when the movie was announced, the prospect of Barry scoring it was very exciting. Too bad it never happened. (Not that there is anything wrong with Michael Giacchino's score, it's a good score in its own right.)
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I would have loved for John Williams to have scored most, if not all, of the post-Azkaban Harry Potter films. I wasn’t much thrilled with the scores from those films in the series.
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Considering the whole 300/Titus debacle, it's probably not very realistic but I always thought that Elliot Goldenthal would've been a perfect match for Christopher Nolan's Batman films and Inception (I do like Zimmer's efforts though).
The recent interview with Paul Verhoeven reminded me that he had approached Horner for Flesh + Blood. Say he had accepted, there would've been a good chance he had scored RoboCop as well. Definitely an interesting proposition
And agreed on Mystic River! Eastwood's score took me out of the film several times.
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James Horner for Star Trek 4 immediately comes to mind.
Third post! That took longer than I expected. I love Rosenman's score. But another Horner score would have been neat.
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I can think of two films I wish had a better score: Star Trek IV and Never Say Never Again. I really don't get NSNA.
What I think about more often are scores that I wish had a better film. There's no shortage of those.
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James Horner- Dragonslayer
John Williams- Dragonslayer
Jerry Goldsmith- Dragonslayer
Basil Poledouris- Dragonslayer
Anyone other than Alex North Dragonslayer.
No, no... DRAGONSLAYER is one of the best fantasy scores of all time.. no way I would trade that in for any other.
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Matrix Ressurections -- Really missed hearing what Don Davis would have done with a return to the Matrix.
Yes, Don Davis is as much part of the Matrix fabric as John Williams is to Star Wars.
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We've had one or two threads like this before, and I know I've commented in one of them, but I can't find it. Some quick examples:
"Gravity"
Not only does it ruin the film, but I'm for rejecting the score even years later.
"Ghostbusters II"
Wish Elmer had just made an exception and did one more comedy score.
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