Morricone's overture is just plain awful; all of his best riffs were cribbed from his earlier work, mostly "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "My Name is Nobody."
Guess the Academy was embarrassed for missing his genius the first time.
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The music is a tribute to the era & the original 50's tv series you bunch of *beep* philistines!
I liked the music.
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The only music true to the period I hear in the film wasn't written by Morricone! The early scene with the child and the briefcase: what seems to be a vintage recording of "Mood Indigo" by the Duke Ellington Band plays on the soundtrack. I would've preferred hearing comparable music by the likes of Cab Calloway, Casa Loma Orchestra, Ben Bernie, Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Louis Armstrong (who I think was using Chicago as a home base during the film's time frame), Bing Crosby and Fats Waller. Maybe the cost of obtaining nusic rights was too much; just wish Morricone had composed music that was closer to the spirit of things.
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Why does the music have be true to the period? Chariots of Fire and The Bounty didn't have music true to their period neither did Ben Hur. Would someone really say that Miklos Rozsa music wasn't worth listening to? They're films not documentaries. The idea is to suspend your dis belief.
shareWhat I stated was "just my humble opinion." If you feel differently, more power to you. In a film like this, I'd prefer the background music to reflect the goings-on. I don't require that of EVERY movie I see.
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Morricone's overture
Morricone made the most divine movie's music ever with The Mission, one year earlier.
Not only it was voted the greatest soundtrack ever by magazine Variety, made it in the American Film Institute's Top 25 scores, but it became a standard of movie scores in the same level than classical composers' works, it was really baffling that Morricone didn't win for The Mission, which simply constitutes the pinaccle of his Art.
So, I don't blame him for not busting his ass for the following film, he had probably had enough of all these Academy jokers.
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You people are nuts. I think the score like many parts of the movie is beautifully handled and unforgettable.
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And, actually - I like Morricone's score. Too bad the film itself isn't as interesting.
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Just watched this movie for the first time last night. What stood out to me the most, quite distractedly so throughout the film, was that the score never fit the scene. It's not that the music was terrible, but it did not belong in this film. The movie itself was decent, but I was constantly distracted by the ill-chosen music in nearly every scene.
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