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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: moments of wonder both here and out there     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 6:43 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) "Spread out everybody, we're gonna figure out the shape of this thing." And Tiomkin's music starts off routine, swells and then goes ballistic. "It's almost a perfect--It is! It's round!" Tiomkin employs a downbeat of stun. Then a theremin for creeping awareness. "We finally got one." The Thing From Another World introduced me to this kind of stuff at a young age. Later, the last half hour or so of Williams and CE3K sealed the deal. Then it was Horner and Genesis at the end of ST: TWOK. "Whaddaya think?" "I think it's not half bad." The camera rises from behind, all is silent save for the bleat of an unseen peregrine falcon. Then the vista sweeps and swirls and oh does Mr. Howard (oh that name!) add a Grand Canyon fanfare for this rock of who knows how many ages in a denouement of sparkling metaphorical triumph. Here, there, in-house and/or otherworldly, it just doesn't get much better than this.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 6:46 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Your headline should have read "Moments of Wonder, Both Here and Yonder". That being said, it's an interesting topic. Let me think if I can add some more to your examples. I mean, Jill's arrival at the western town in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, does that count? Talk about a swell!    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 6:52 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Ahh great example. Claudia. Rising crane shot. Revelation. Ennio nailed it. As usual. Interesting too, Thor, how the wordless chorus was much a part of both the Williams and Howard pieces.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 7:35 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) South Pacific. Lt. Cable walks off with Bloody Mary leaving the boor's tooth ceremony and Billis behind. Newman starts off with a lonely flute passage, slowly adds in strings, and then the moment Cable looks up--the exact moment--sheer orchestral bliss breaks out to mirror his. He has entered a tropical rain forest paradise. The sequence culminates in the entrance of Liat. She is a vision. Made me want to jump into the screen upon his discovery what with all that beautiful music to bathe in too.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 7:41 AM     By:   keky   (Member) The Well of Souls scene and music in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Williams' mystical music with the choir when the light reaches the place of the Ark is really a moment of wonder.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 7:42 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Aces. Tremendous subtle buildup leading to that point. And then comes the crescendo. Ah!    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 8:04 AM     By:   Lovejoy   (Member) John Barry's stunning scoring of the penultimate scene in Dances With Wolves... After the tremendous emotion of Wind in His Hair yelling his friendship to the world, DWW leaves the valley... Then we reach Barry's finest cue in a film of glorious cues... the cavalry hunting down DWW, crashing through the snow, the music rising all the time, then they come across the valley, finding nothing but smoking fires... DWW and the Sioux are nowhere to be seen, and the crescendo of the music twinned to the wolf howling... It's absolutely breathtaking every time you watch it. 2:27 or so in this vid.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 8:10 AM     By:   Ado   (Member) A lot of moments in Lawrence of Arabia, some of those long shots are so massive you cannot really grasp the scale of nature before you, even some of the smaller things, like once Lawrence reaches Aqaba- those shots with the the waves behind him and the relief in the score there, just perfection. 2001, it is a cliche pretty much to adore it, but so much wonder still there. The end gets the usual attention, but so much of the rest of it is still entrancingly effective still, the perfect balletic execution of ships in space, that shuttle going across the moon surface, it goes on and on, still darn glorious. Almost all of Barry Lyndon, the glorious slow zooms in and out, the candle light Star Trek The Motion Picture, that fly around space dock, still magnificent perfect, one of the best examples of film and score in history. That travel through Vger. The slowest most maligned portions, I adore. Even the ending with Vger and that lightshow and the perfect artistic dissolve of Vger into the top disc of Enterprise, perfection.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 8:13 AM     By:   Prince Damian   (Member) Conan the Barbarian- The Wheel of Pain. Repeating, plodding, incessant,building by each turn. Finally a big blurt out of the theme on first viewing of adult Conan's fkn huge shoulders.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 12:05 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) John Barry's stunning scoring of the penultimate scene in Dances With Wolves.... You got me in the right mood. Great description; tremendous clip. Put me in the full Barry mood, too. I'd add the scene when Dunbar comes to the crest of the hill carrying wounded Stands With a Fist, looks and discovers the Indian village below. The music and sweep across the teepeed landscape pulled me in at the cinema and still does today on the big screen TV. You can see Dunbar's awe and feel it. This is a moment for Barry right out of Jarre's playbook per mention of LOA. Wonderful moments here. Keep 'em coming, gang.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 12:10 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) My moment of wonder was when Scout saw Boo Radley accompanied by the wonderful cue "Hey Boo."    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 12:11 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Not to mention "tree treasures" from both knothole and then to Jem's room.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 1:08 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) CITIZEN KANE, the whole last scene. The men talking about how CFK had acquired all that stuff. "I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle - a missing piece." "Well, come on everybody, we'll miss the train." The brooding Herrmann music creeps in, over a tracking shot of masses and masses of Kane's stuff... "Throw that junk", says the man, tersely. The sled in the furnace. The burning letters.... ...ROSEBUD.... Herrmann's powerful chords as it goes up in flames. The chimney with the black smoke billowing out. The "No Trespassing" sign on the gates. The End. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0O1BKu3zk Simply heartbeaking. Gets me every time.    Posted:   Nov 12, 2024 - 5:40 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Too young upon the first viewing but after coming of age I found that sequence devastating and Welles a force to be reckoned with. Already knew Herrmann but not his early efforts in Hollywood. Just the thought of those two together, in retrospect,…fantastic.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 1:30 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) The greatest moment (at least in my view) hasn't been mentioned so far -- the awe shot from JURASSIC PARK. Tentative music as we only see the stunned faces of Grant and Sattler, and then it finally breaks out in the majestic theme as we get the reverse shot of the brontosaurus, and eventually also the whole dino-filled valley. Best awe & wonder moment in all of film music history, as far as I'm concerned. I've seen the film literally 100 times, and that still gets to me. Every time.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 10:31 AM     By:   erepel   (Member) Horner's score to Trumbull's glimpse of Heaven in "Brainstorm"?    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 10:38 AM     By:   Ado   (Member) Talking about Dinosaurs, several moments in the JNH score to that film, recently released in expanded form on Intrada. The meteors crashing and setting fire to their home, pretty spectacular stuff, quite an emotionally sad impact for a Disney animated film. A lot of other grand stuff, one of such is when they finally get to their new home, or the big opening section across the landscapes.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 11:53 AM     By:   judy the hutt   (Member) Horner's score to Trumbull's glimpse of Heaven in "Brainstorm"? great choice    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 12:29 PM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Lots of furtive glances and zooms and cuts as Gillian (Amy Irving) acts doped in the kitchen and Williams slowly broods. Then a crash and a flurry and it's just music and images. No dialogue...No sound FX. A director trusting his film crew, actors, editor AND COMPOSER. And off they run...out of the house...up the alley... into the street. Euphoria in Music. Then... The bad guys...the dark chords...the sequence unraveling. The crash...the jogger...the bullet chords!! The aftermath and tragedy. The greatest silent music ever written. Take a bow everyone.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 12:34 PM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) Ghost When the arrangement of Alex North's music by Jarre from the 1955 film Unchained plays and she can now see him. He looks back at then at her. Just a beautiful choice and is works so wonderfully. Great decision to do that.     General Discussion: moments of wonder both here and out there    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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