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Adaptations or original?
Original: Jaws
Adaptations: Magnificent Seven (Grand Canyon Suite)
Multiple Sources: Easy Rider
Original: Jaws
Adaptations: Magnificent Seven (Grand Canyon Suite)
Multiple Sources: Easy Rider
What are the best motion picture scores?
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Quigley Down Under. Basil Poledouris also did many others including the Lonesome Dove mini series.
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Love that movie. Have the soundtrack. I believe the score was done by Ry Cooder.
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Yes, the music was far better than the film.
Alfred Newman wrote many scores for movies. He wrote the music for Street Scenes and it was used again in Cry of the City, very haunting refrain.
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The Sandpebbles is My all time favorite. Next up, Patton and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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Patton, Midway, Band of Brothers, Last of the Mohicans, 1992 version.
Jaws, Star Wars.
Jaws, Star Wars.
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Conan the Barbarian
Zulu
Zulu
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Theme from "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith.
Roadhouse. I like roadhouse blues and Jeff Healey
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Back in my foolish youth, I have been in a bunch of places like The Roadhouse.
Lots of them had excellent bands, but probably none as good as Jeff Healey.
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The theme of Henry Hathaway's "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965).
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyrjh0EDlss[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyrjh0EDlss[/ame]
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Tastes vary considerably. I'll bet Roadhouse hasn't gotten any better in the twenty-five or thirty years since it premiered. At best, it was one of those "worth seeing once" films, memorable only for its mediocrity.
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A movie very few saw (or liked), "The Hired Hand"- Bruce Langhorne
36-35, Mean Machine over the Guards . . .
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And at least for honorable mention:
The theme for the original "Halloween" (1978). Still creeps me out.
John Carpenter, who wrote and directed the film, had no budget to hire a composer or an orchestra. So he rented a studio with some synthesizers for a few days and sat down to come up with the minimalist score himself.
Next to the "Jaws" theme, it became the most famous and recognizable scary theme in American film history.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWvBZu3cr2g[/ame]
The theme for the original "Halloween" (1978). Still creeps me out.
John Carpenter, who wrote and directed the film, had no budget to hire a composer or an orchestra. So he rented a studio with some synthesizers for a few days and sat down to come up with the minimalist score himself.
Next to the "Jaws" theme, it became the most famous and recognizable scary theme in American film history.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWvBZu3cr2g[/ame]
I've got a LOT of music on my cell phone.....
...including selections from TGTBATU. The Ecstasy Of Gold and the Final Gunfight.
...including selections from TGTBATU. The Ecstasy Of Gold and the Final Gunfight.
Badlands w/Sissy Spacek and that guy I can never remember his name.
Gasenhauer by Carl Orff
Gasenhauer by Carl Orff
Jeff Healey (RIP) did the best cover on that Doors' song I ever heard.
