Sublime film scores

Mark Knopfler’s Local Hero score is fantastic:

Anyone who has spent time in the Scottish Highlands will find it brings memories flooding back. He gets it exactly.
 
exchemist said:
Mark Knopfler’s Local Hero score is fantastic:

Anyone who has spent time in the Scottish Highlands will find it brings memories flooding back. He gets it exactly.
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My cousin had recommended this. So I grabbed it when I saw it at Half Price Books last week. It is very good.
 
gmilam said:
My cousin had recommended this. So I grabbed it when I saw it at Half Price Books last week. It is very good.
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The track called The Rocks and the Water is extraordinary. There is a lighthouse on Cloch Point, on the Firth of Clyde which has, or had, a foghorn that sounds in foggy weather. I remember from my childhood the muffled sound of it carrying across the water. Somehow he's put something just like it into the music. He's also captured the air of mystery one gets from all these lochs and mountains that come into view and disappear again, travelling in the Highlands.

As it happens, I posted a couple of pictures of the rocks and the water a few days ago, on this thread: https://www.sciforums.com/threads/t...ings-images-thread.27162/page-42#post-3735795
 
Pinball1970 said:
My mate and I noticed that, similar premise, one gang/hit man all other gangs/hitmen have to stop him. I am pretty certain the version I saw on video a different song was played to a later version. This was one I cannot remember the other.

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I remember it as the same one, Paris and NYC. "Lookin' good, Warriors. All the way to Coney."
 
Wow, so many good suggestions.
A few linked to some already given:
exchemist said:
Mark Knopfler’s Local Hero score is fantastic:
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His Princess Bride soundtrack is also great, I especially love the outro:
Not sure if I like it because I love the film so much, or whether it is simply a great, simple, tune, excellently executed. ;)

Blade Runner - the entire score is just fantastic. A few others of Vangelis' scores I'd recommend:

Chariots of Fire:

1492: Conquest of Paradise:

The Bounty:

As you might guess, I'm a big fan of his work! :)
 
Someone offered up Ennio Morricone - quite a substantial body of work that's good - his Westerns scores especially - but these two non-Western maybe lesser-well-known ones get me every time:

On Earth as it is in Heaven, from The Mission

Chi Mai, the version from The Life & Times of David Lloyd George
(ignore the images: someone has used stills from "The Day of the Jackal", it seems, but it's the only version I could find that had the version of the score that I remember most fondly)

Hans Zimmer - what's not to love, especially The Battle from Gladiator


And this is before wandering down the John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith rabbit holes.

As for John Barry... I do find that most of his scores sound, in some way, too similar, but this one always makes me smile, although I think that's just a guilty-pleasure from the nostalgia that is... The Black Hole
(but even with this it too easily wanders in my head to the themes he's used in his Bond scores. Ah, well. ;) )


And then, unrelated to what has previously been suggested, there's this - obviously not written for the film, but, heck, it was perfect.
Platoon - Barber's Adagio for Strings
 
Makes me realise I have not listened to much of this stuff out of context.
This sounds like Stravinsky! I think a lot of writers could have been inspired by him, have a listen to "Rite of Spring," it is nuts.

 
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Pinball1970 said:
Makes me realise I have not listened to much of this stuff out of context.
This sounds like Stravinsky! I think a lot of writers could have been inspired by him, have a listen to "Rite of Spring," it is nuts.

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Unfortunately "Close Encounters" is one of my all time bête noires. Awful anti-science, anti-rational film. I hated it - spent the whole time asking myself what the F was supposed to be going on: police cars chasing coloured lights, screws unscrewing themselves, cooker hotplates heating up, all for no reason, with not even any attempt at explaining, while the authorities supposedly knew exactly what was happening, yet didn't tell anyone. Ghastly conspiracy theory shit - MR would have loved it. :biggrin:

Perhaps it marked the start of the flight from rationality and the suspicion of science that has become such a baleful feature of many societies today.
 
exchemist said:
Unfortunately "Close Encounters" is one of my all time bête noires. Awful anti-science, anti-rational film. I hated it - spent the whole time asking myself what the F was supposed to be going on: police cars chasing coloured lights, screws unscrewing themselves, cooker hotplates heating up, all for no reason, with not even any attempt at explaining, while the authorities supposedly knew exactly what was happening, yet didn't tell anyone. Ghastly conspiracy theory shit - MR would have loved it. :biggrin:

Perhaps it marked the start of the flight from rationality and the suspicion of science that has become such a baleful feature of many societies today.
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I watched it recently and enjoyed it. I was little when I saw it and I found the first part very confusing. Richard Dreyfus was exceptional in the film, falling apart in front of his family.
The film is about alien visitation so the science is pretty much out of the window (it is fiction after all)

One thing I do remember is the mother ship returning the flight 19 pilots and one of the techs said.

"Einstein was right, they haven't aged at all."

I remember thinking, "What the hell does that mean!?"

We did not cover time dilation in "o" level physics!
 
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