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Jul 7, 2010 - 12:57 PM
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Mike Esssss
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Is there really not already a thread for this score? Hmm.
In any event, the "Main Title" just popped up on shuffle and I was moved to post about my love for this score, which came during that fruitful period for "smaller" projects sandwiched between the tentpole films of the mid-to-late 80's and mid-90's.
I'm always immediately struck by what a dexterous piece of scoring it is. The filmmaking is equally agile, shifting in tone countless times but never losing the focus of any one moment. It's hysterically funny, genuinely suspenseful, and emotionally grounded, and Horner manages to find a throughline for his score that manages by turns to flit between airy readings of the buddy music, the crashing pianos of the heist, the crescendo of the blind man seeing, and the adagio of old friends.
The masterstroke was Branford Marsalis. Not so much hiring Marsalis himself, though he's certainly a great musician. Really it's the idea of featuring a soloist that works wonders bridging the gap from sequence to sequence so that it never feels episodic. It really makes each tonal shift feel like part of the whole.
It's also really, really good music, plain and simple.
I only noticed recently that Horner uses the danger motif throughout, just in a completely different guise.
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One piece of great music that seems to be missing from the album: When Bishop leaves the reception following Janak's lecture and heads up to meet the van on top of the parking garage nextdoor, there's a short but wonderful piece of music led by a really insistent line for piano. Right before they do what they did in Mexico City.
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The use of percussion on this score is brilliant.
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This and Cocoon are the two Horner scores I'd most love to have complete or expanded.
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Sneakers is a score I've liked since I heard it in the theater and thought it gave a very different texture to the film that set it apart from the pack.
Great point. The vocals and Horner's swirling use of the higher registers really make it distinct.
Also, I do remember, back when the Horner backlash was at a fever pitch, that this was one Horner score that even Lukas liked.
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My all-time favorite James Horner score. The film, the score, it's all perfect.
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Jul 7, 2010 - 8:39 PM
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Howard L
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Is there really not already a thread for this score? Hmm.
Several years ago a bunch of us here took the Sneakers challenge, watched the film on the same weekend and then weighed in. It was a very sober, thought-inducing and thought-provoking discussion; no haranguers, no apologists. Just reality.
Now gather 'round, gather round ye chillun', come an' listen to the story of a thread from an earlier version of ye olde messageboard that is lost, save for its original post, and that is ripe for resurrection whenever another Sneakers challenge--or reasonable facsimile thereof--presents itself...like...now! Here is one such resurrection, complete with Yours Truly and an earlier version, too, of Sir Rutherford (but not nearly as early as launch point 1999's [ ]).
Enjoy, Mr. Skerritt! (any relation to Tom?)
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=57558&forumID=1&archive=0
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Sorry to put my two-cents in...
But listen to Arvo Pärt's 'Fratres' and tell me what you think...
That aside, the score is great.
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Yeah, absolutely, but I'm giving Horner a free pass on this score.
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Yeah, the complete score to this would make the original Columbia album look like a slow ride to grandma's house.
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Is there really not already a thread for this score? Hmm.
Several years ago a bunch of us here took the Sneakers challenge, watched the film on the same weekend and then weighed in. It was a very sober, thought-inducing and thought-provoking discussion; no haranguers, no apologists. Just reality.
Now gather 'round, gather round ye chillun', come an' listen to the story of a thread from an earlier version of ye olde messageboard that is lost, save for its original post, and that is ripe for resurrection whenever another Sneakers challenge--or reasonable facsimile thereof--presents itself...like...now! Here is one such resurrection, complete with Yours Truly and an earlier version, too, of Sir Rutherford (but not nearly as early as launch point 1999's []).
Enjoy, Mr. Skerritt! (any relation to Tom?)
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=57558&forumID=1&archive=0
Hmmm. By that time I was lurking if not participating here, but I definitely don't remember your Sneakers Home Study Course. And I am more the poorer for it. 
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