Best Film Themes
Discussion
Doctor Zhivago (Lara's theme)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd2PzoF1y8
The Ten Commandments....(1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPO8O1FaOk
The Third man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd2PzoF1y8
The Ten Commandments....(1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPO8O1FaOk
The Third man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo
Pesty said:
LOTM has a great score. Love the Irish bit at teh end even if I dont understand why there is an irish jig in a film about native americans.
What bronson film is that from>? Ive seen all his don't remember that
Probably insisted on by Daniel Day-Lewis, who is part Irish.What bronson film is that from>? Ive seen all his don't remember that
Also, many of the "British" soldiers in Nort America at the time werre actually Irish (40% of the "Britisdh" army in those days was Irish).
There are some that immediately spring to mind:
Road To Perdition
American Beauty
You Only Live Twice
Elvira Madigan
Howard Shore's LOTR soundtrack is, generally, a great. But this is a standout bit:
Evenstar
Road To Perdition
American Beauty
You Only Live Twice
Elvira Madigan
Howard Shore's LOTR soundtrack is, generally, a great. But this is a standout bit:
Evenstar
shirt said:
how about the score for last of the mohicans?
on another note [bud-um-tish]entirely, i love ennio morricone's 'svolta definitiva' but have never seen the film it's from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_dr8dE3zb4
GB&U always. Not just the main theme, but re-visit the final(?) shootout. Magnificent, masterful Morricone.on another note [bud-um-tish]entirely, i love ennio morricone's 'svolta definitiva' but have never seen the film it's from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_dr8dE3zb4
There's a locally produced cinema soundtrack radio show I listen to when it interests me. Last week the theme was Westerns. They included samples from LoTM... seems kind of an Eastern western to me as there was not much west of Virginia at the time
I was suprised tobe reminded of some other half-forgotten classics:
The Magnificent Seven.
The Cowboys(early John Williams)
Batman main title (1989, Elfman)
Also John Barry's 007 scores. Dr.No, GoooooldFINgaahhhhh, et al.
And who mentioned Lalo? Of course Mission Impossible(TV was 1st and Best, IMHO)
+1 for 3rd Man
And I have a soft spot for Silent Running. Real Music from Prof. Peter Schickele, discoverer of P.D.Q. Bach. ("Born in 1742, last and by far the least child of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Although he had managed to ignore the child for five years...")
I could go on... and on...and on...and
Dambusters
633 Squadrom
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
A Bridge too Far
Empire of the Sun
On Her Majesties Secret Service
The Pink Panther
Star Wars
Jaws (not the kind of tune you want to sit and listen to, but as a theme it was excellent)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Christine (It's me, I would)
National Lampoons Vacation
633 Squadrom
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
A Bridge too Far
Empire of the Sun
On Her Majesties Secret Service
The Pink Panther
Star Wars
Jaws (not the kind of tune you want to sit and listen to, but as a theme it was excellent)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Christine (It's me, I would)
National Lampoons Vacation
Z06George said:
Too many films for me to list so I'll go with the composers, in my eyes almost any film done by these guys have great themes.
Hans Zimmer
I added Days of Thunder(yes, I know...) to my netflix queue the other day, purely for the score:Hans Zimmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0_pNr1NDs
Hans Zimmer gets my vote, for this alone.
And John Williams for this although JW has got very, very samey in recent years.
Older stuff, then it has to be Ron Goodwin as mentioned.
Apparently, following the release of Battle of Brtain and the "Aces High" Luftwaffe March he wrote for that, Goodwin received hate mail from those who genuinely felt he must have had Arian tendancies to write a piece of music with such blatant Germanic overtones.
And John Williams for this although JW has got very, very samey in recent years.
Older stuff, then it has to be Ron Goodwin as mentioned.
Apparently, following the release of Battle of Brtain and the "Aces High" Luftwaffe March he wrote for that, Goodwin received hate mail from those who genuinely felt he must have had Arian tendancies to write a piece of music with such blatant Germanic overtones.
Main theme:
Assault on precinct 13 (original. Oh how I loathe having to write that)
For music during films rather than the main theme:
comptine d'un autre ete (Yann Tiersen, from Amelie)
Love on a real train (Tangerine Dream, from Risky Business)
Silver crosses (Tangerine Dream, from The Keep)
Assault on precinct 13 (original. Oh how I loathe having to write that)
For music during films rather than the main theme:
comptine d'un autre ete (Yann Tiersen, from Amelie)
Love on a real train (Tangerine Dream, from Risky Business)
Silver crosses (Tangerine Dream, from The Keep)
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