It´s all about the music! Tangerine vs. Goldsmith.

For the record, according to the production, Legend had two cuts because the movie had rights in more than one producer. And the screening had not been very successful, making R. Scott cut the film and put another score in Berlin to the US. version.
Both cuts of Legend, making almost 2 entirely different movies, had their faults and their highs. The music is probably what made the most controversial discussions about the fans of the movie. It´s a personal thing. Some people, or I believe most people, prefer the Goldsmith classical score. Some not. I´m one of those who thinks that Tangerine Dream added more to the touch of Legend´s wonder. It´s very hard to put in words but it worth a try.
Legend is a hybrid movie. The setting, scenarios and the whole world in Legend looks and feels totally hermetic. I mean, for example Lord of the Rings takes place in some forgotten Europe. I think Legend was suppose to take place in our thoughts, making the narrative more claustrophobic and thick with lots of gritty elements in the art direction really revealing us that we are inside of a dream. Tangerine Dream´s score, the US. version mind you, captures this hybrid and hermetic feeling more than the classical open-world Goldsmith´s score.
Tangerine Dream music score starts with a celtic flute like an echoed wind in hollow oak, making it´s way in a change of keys in the very beginning of the open titles just as the bear reaches for the beehive, like a low key, almost like the humming of the trees, going a little dark on the felling of the score for a bit, showing the orions that the magical forest has also survival elements. Later, we hear a four-stroke key every time the goblins appear, vaguely sounds like the J.F. Sebastian´s apartment in Blade Runner, when surrounded by various android-goblins.
That´s just a couple of artistic elements that we can see in Tangerine Dream´s bold and free-thinking score. To capture the obscurity and hermetic feel of Legend. Making a more significant signature, Tangerine Dream used a more mystic feel, like it´s not meant to be music at all.
And the whole score was made in 4 weeks no less.