what makes a good film score? (1 Viewer)

[avernus]

I'm into scores that create atmosphere and encapsulate the movie's theme or subject within a few movements. Stuff like:

Yann Tiersen - Amelie
Danny Elfman - Batman
Michael Andrew - Donnie Darko
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks/Mullholland Drive
Nathan Johnson - Brick
Yann Tiersen - Goodbye Lenin

 

[Nate Champion]

I don't think it matters that the score works on it's own. All that matters is that's it's suited in the context it's used. I wouldn't listen to Mark Mothersbaugh or Jon Brion scores outside of the films they're used in, but they're an integral part of the mood or atmosphere within the films, particularily Brion with Eternal Sunshine.

Last score that impressed me was last night when I re-watched Undertow - Philip Glass just got that right measure of ominous mood without laying it on.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Jurassic Park OST is deadly.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

music inspired by the movie is always a treat.

 

[the departed]

brion, elfman, glass, andrews, williams, tierson are all amazingly talented.

and john carpenter is perhaps as good a film scorer as he is a director.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

brion, elfman, glass, andrews, williams, tierson are all amazingly talented.

and john carpenter is perhaps as good a film scorer as he is a director.

agreed on all of the above.
assault on precint 13 gave me a woody first time i heard/saw it.

 

[Diddles]

Just found out that there was a different score for 2001: A Space Odyssey! Can't imagine it without Strauss. Apparently the bloke that composed the original score was devastated by it being replaced. Must get it and have a listen.

Classical music wise, there was a film I remember about this fella that deserts from the army and has a romance with this woman. There's either very little or no talking in it. The music is beautiful. There should be an audio google that you can hum a tune into a mic and i'tll tell you what it's called. *



*copyrighted - diddles 2007.

 

[Diddles]

agreed on all of the above.
assault on precint 13 gave me a woody first time i heard/saw it.

I was humming that for days after I heard it - it's bleedin deadly.

 

[Yurn!]

Any of you seen the movie Birth?
Cracking soundtrack by a guy called Alexandre Desplat.
Film is great too.
Well, I think it is.

Big time. The music in Birth is rapid.

C'mon Glazer, let's be havin' you.

 

[therealjohnny]

Inspired by this thread I've just spent a lot of money I can't afford on ebay.

ah well, plenty of time to listen to my music as I sit in for the rest of the year

 

[therealjohnny]

Just got 'Buddism'- the Roy Budd movie themes collection

Its great

highly recommended

 

[Yurn!]

I'm gonna get that Sunshine soundtrack methinks.

 

[the departed]

I'm gonna get that Sunshine soundtrack methinks.

thats underworld is it not?

 

[Janer]

A Punk soundtrack helps too///

I like Romper Stomper instrumental bits..........