I loved the music Maurice Jarre wrote for this film...but it was kind of annoying to see it recycled a year later for "Tai-Pan." (Well, since maybe 14 people ever saw that movie, I guess it doesn't matter)
The point is, like James Horner's "Cocoon" score being recyled from "Star Trek 2" -- it gets really disorienting to have the exact score for two different imaginary worlds.
I'm just saying.
I actually thought that a lot of the score for this movie sounded a lot like the score from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome...also by Jarre.
shareYou guys are correct... they recycle scores all the time. Another example I can think of is Project X and the Devil's Own. That was memorable because the piece is so distinct.
shareExactly... snippets from the theme from Stargate has appeared in dozens of movie trailers that I've seen. My friends and I will always laugh when we happen to notice it, as we watched the film and then the series enough times to never forget that music.
I've heard the Aliens theme used on a few trailers also - that slow string focused segment where the Nostromo lifeboat is drifting in space as the intro credits are rolling.
Obviously people with a good ear for music will catch ones like that, but of course there is a limit. If they tried to use the Superman theme song, the Darth Vader theme or the main theme to Star Wars or Star Trek for something else, too many people would notice that.
For many film score composers it's just easier to rearrange music they've already used. For instance Jerry Goldsmith got fed up with trying something different and started using his Basic Instinct theme whenever he felt like it - like in The Edge.
Going further back in film history, the acclaimed Miklos Rozsa seemed to use a handful of compositions and reuse them for virtually every movie he scored. You can hear the very same music in movies from the 1940's to the 70's - from Double Indemnity and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers to Time After Time. I think the guy was just lazy.
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