(08-09-2012, 09:46 PM)LovinDaHaley Wrote:

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But the primary reason I love this movie is the soundtrack. Here's a little sample:

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Quote:Soundtrack

"Before Kane, nobody in Hollywood knew how to set music properly in movies," wrote filmmaker François Truffaut in a 1967 essay. "Kane was the first, in fact the only, great film that uses radio techniques."

......... (another random remark from wiki-pedia below)

Opera lovers are frequently amused by the parody of vocal coaching that appears in a singing lesson given to Susan Alexander by Signor Matiste. The character attempts to sing the famous cavatina "Una voce poco fa" from Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini, but the lesson is interrupted when Alexander sings a high note flat.

Orson Welles said that the Nat King Cole Trio is heard performing the song, "It Can't Be Love," in one of the key scenes of Citizen Kane, the fight between Susan and Kane in the picnic tent. "I'd heard Nat King Cole and his trio in a little bar. I kind of based the whole scene around that song," Welles said. "The music is by Nat Cole — it's his trio. He doesn't sing it — he's too legitimate, we got some kind of low-down New Orleans voice [Alton Redd[80]] — but it was his number and his trio."[23]:57 Bernard Herrmann denied unconfirmed reports that suggest Cole can also be heard playing in the scene where Thompson questions a down-at-heel Susan in the nightclub where she works.[80]

Quote:Red (played by Morgan Freedmen) (narrator): I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

(08-10-2012, 02:05 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote: By the statement in bold, is it safe to assume that you majored in music at CSU?

(08-10-2012, 04:47 PM)Tom22 Wrote: Ok.. no such thing as “best” but.. I Can point out a few of my “favorites” .. in terms of how they have maybe influenced me and make me comfortable with myself and the world.



Can I say too much about Sound of Music? Epic fairy-tail/myth that provides a moral epitome of what is noble and precious about people and life. (almost like Homer’s Iliad defined the paragons and human vulnerabilities of that age 2500 years ago). Wonderful cinematography, wonderful musical score, wonderful actors and actresses that bring open hearts to their performances and create charming characters from a script that often only gives each one a few words (but words laced with so much implied in so few words)

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Raising Arizona is also a mythic sort of Tale .. The Cohen brother’s are geniuses . So much can be said with humor poking fun at misdirected notions and emotions in the comic characters as well as the “everyman” aspirations and confusions of the world brings about them vs purer emotions I think all men/women hold in their hearts (ok a bit Ann Frank there but…)
Favorite line “those were the salad days”
On top of that I have a Crush on Holly Hunter and fall in love with her again every time I see her on camera (or off camera in the “Incredibles”). The cinematography was good here too (although less high art like.. .. more director story driven). Any sweeping moving needs a score that conveys emotion at the right time and the Cohen Brothers are masters (see OH Brother where art thou )

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Local Hero




Local Hero - this one is more existentialist and cuts slightly closer to the less than heroic conflicts of the world … more about self-knowledge. Still It is still a fair-tale about humans coming to a comfort with themselves in a way of freeing themselves from expectations they feel the world puts on them and know they can find a way to live true to their heart.
This one also had a masterful and gorgeous cinematography and a score that is something truly special
I don’t think you can have a great movie without a great score:

Here is an amateur review someone wrote about the score
In 1983, at the height of the Dire Straights' reign of pop music ("Money for Nothing"), Dire Straights lead song writer Mark Knopfler scored the soundtrack of a delightful "little movie that could" called Local Hero.

"Local Hero" (14 tracks, 43 min.) creates the atmosphere of the Scottish scene in which the movie is set, in which a US expat is sent to convince a small seaside town to sell their interest in a beach so that a "big bad" US oil company can explore ir for oil. The mostly instrumental soundtrack is superb from start to finish, creating a wonderful mood. The opener "The Rocks and the Water" sets the stage, just superbly brought of what the Scottish seaside is like. Knopfler's guitar virtuoso gets a workout in a couple of tracks, but it never deteriorates from the overall mood. Other outstanding tracks include "The Mist Covered Mountains", gently bringing in a local band playing a sorrowful yet hopeful tune, and "Stargazer", in which you can just see and smell the open Scottish sky. There isn't a single weak track on the album, frankly. This album remains a soundtrack by which others should be measured b