Anybody else hear that tune within the Score of the film? They did it so many times and it's all I could hear; it kinda ruined the movie for me. Great movie, no doubt, but maybe I would have appreciated it more, if I didn't keep hearing that.
shareI'm hoping that by replying to this post I will be able to sneak in some of my dislike for some Max Steiner scores. I feel that the overuse of that little "Oriental" theme just about ruins my enjoyment. You refer to the theme as "Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina" but it is the same theme that I am talking about. Steiner flogs it and repeats it and flogs it and repeats it. It is such a NOTHING. If it had any subtlety it wouldn't keep intruding on my consciousness the way it does. I don't think the composer even understood the concept of underscoring. OVERscoring was what he did.
I always forget that I will have to be subjected to enduring this score. I love this movie so I put up with it.
Another movie Max Steiner ruined was Treasure of the Sierra Madre IMO, IMHO.