Most Powerful Movie Music?

The King's Speech, final scene. Understated but moving.

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Its the themes to Superman and Star Wars for me. Patton, Battle of Britain and Battle of the Bulge too. Something about John Williams stuff can't be bested.
 
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Great contributions here. I'd add the main themes from Jesus of Nazareth (not really a movie), High Noon (although they eventually overplayed it to risible effect), and, most affectingly, The Best Years of Our Lives.
 
I thought the music for Reservoir Dogs was perfect for the movie.
 
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Dennis The B said:
The entire symphony is one of my favorites.

Amazing that the words to the symphony are about as far from a heroic charge as one can get. :rolleyes: :D
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They are irreverent, drinking and some 'bawdy' songs with a lot of love thrown in that were found in a monastery and put to music by Orff, who used a lot of percussion, bells, gongs, castanets, etc. The 'Wheel of Fortune' was an ancient medieval concept that as fate rolled the wheel up and down, fortunes changed.

The whole thing is a kick to listen to, one odd piece is a tenor singing (screaming?) about a swan as he is being roasted and lamenting his fate. O Fortuna begins and ends the piece. The finale gets really dynamic with the drums and crashing gongs. I would like to perform it at least once, but rather than sing I think I'd love to play the big drums and gong!!!

I think it may have been a good choice for the knight ride in Excaliber because besides sounding like charging horses, they were trying to alter fate by getting rid of Mordred, Arthur's evil son by his witch sister, Morgana.
 
Politics aside (my family was still in Germany at the time of the Civil War) This is my favorite movie theme. When I see it's going to be on in the TV guide, I'll watch the start just to see the opening song. I've seen it so many times that I go somewhere else about the same time this video clip ends.

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This one isn't bad either (same movie)

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Texas Star said:
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"The Last of the Mohicans". If I made movies, this is one that I'd want to have made. :)

The book by J.F. Cooper has been made into several movies and a TV show or two, but this is what the author would have wanted his story to be. (The 1992 Michael Mann production.)
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We used to play the tape and later the re-issued version of the soundtrack on CD in the truck when we drove out elk hunting back in the 1990s.

There are a lot of great music/action combos in this film. I particularly like this one (even though you know it's totally improbable if you've ever looked into a night-time forest :)):

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Texas Star said:
That, "Tribes" movie isn't the one starring Rachel Blakely, is it? I haven't seen it, but her many fans from the TV show, "The Lost World" said it's pretty good.
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No, sorry. "Tribes" was a 1970 Marine Corps boot camp movie with Jan Michael Vincent as a hippie draftee and Darin McGavin as the drill instructor. The movie won several awards.
 
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