Does anyone else think the score for Spartacus is totally inappropriate? It just doesn't seem to "fit" the movie. At least, to my ears it doesn't.
At times it sounds like it was written for a western - like How the West Was Won or something.
AGREED -- several times it took me right out of the story.
shareIt sounded very sports NFL football macho to me.
shareI think it's entirely appropriate and ahead of its time. Semi-Prokofiev-esque, suggesting the clattering clash of ancient weapons, as hearty and hardy as "gutsy" Russian or American "music of the people" can be, "ancient-sounding" especially in the beautiful, melancholy love theme, "Pagan" as when Crassus tells Antoninus about "oysters and snails" and when Crassus oversees the army marching out of Rome on its way to fight the rebel slaves. It's sweeping, breath-taking, and intimate. A score among scores.
shareYeah, the music feels really out of place to me, and all around I didn't really like it.
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