this film ranks high on my personal list...Someone has said that the vocalists actually act as a Greek chorus, as in Sophocoles. Perhaps so, but the vocalists are so bad that it really doesn't work, and so it really doesn't matter what the idea behind it was. Oh well.
Maybe you don't agree or maybe you can think of a list of other films with bad soundtracks.
I agree, Keoma's soundtrack was horrible. There are really only two soundtracks that spring to my mind as equally bad: Never Say Never Again and Ladyhawke.
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I'm not in favor of messing with films some filmmakers do. I don't mind if they restore deleted scenes and such. But when they change things I take issue with.
However in this case if the music was left out I'd be in full favor. Lyrics and vocals were terrible. Than you gotta hear the song a million times. And when it plays over a dramatic scene its a total killer. The actual score though while not great wasn't bad. But the songs ugh lousy!
The soundtrack was fantastic, especially the lament of the female singer, beautiful. It certainly wasn't "bad", it just wasn't your average American country song. You're so used to hear the same type of music over and over, everything else sounds bad. It was original and fit the movie's strange atmosphere to a T. I can't get it out of my head actually.
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I actually like it. I'm American and 29...the music is not what you'd expect for a western, even a spaghetti Western with its spin on the American Western. So I like the feature of the lyrical music & the woman's voice is beautiful. And it does seem to be a foreign feature because I bet the lyrics would sound beautiful in Italian, but since the film was in fact made in English, it would not fit well for intended initial audience. Imo:)
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I LOVE this movie, and over time, I have come to tolerate the soundtrack. Still, I believe that it is the only element keeping this movie from being a full-on masterpiece. It was trying to emulate Bob Dylan's work in "Pat Garret & Billy the Kid," which the director used for work prints of this film. That film also used the soundtrack as a Greek chorus type of storytelling tool. It was an inspired idea, but it was ultimately too much-- even by Enzo's admission in the commentary track. You just couldn't take the Italian rip-off of American folk music seriously.
You know who did it best? Nick Cave, for the Aussie western "The Proposition." I'd love to see what he could do with "Keoma" if he had a chance.
I must say that if this film would have had perhaps a Morricone soundtrack, it would be better respected now. It really is a great film though, with some absolutely fantastic cinematography, although somewhat heavy on the slow motion action scenes. Either way it has grown on me after multiple viewings.
this is one of the few films that I would love to see rescored with something more fitting.