All through the film I could not get the feeling that I had heard the score used in something else! Can anyone shed any light or am I just going crazy?
"Fellas, don't drink that coffee! There was a fish....... IN the percolator!"
I noticed an almost exact similarity between part of the score in the last scene (when he's walking towards Tonya's bed) and the piece "I had a compass from Denys" from the Out of Africa score. To be specific - at about 1:35 in on the "I had a compass" piece sounds very, very familiar. Of course Out of Africa is a hugely acclaimed score from John Barry from the 1980s, so that predates Enemy at the Gates by nearly two decades.
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Have you ever seen the cartoon movie about the dog Balto?? This score was definitely in that!
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Avatar, willow, this movie.
shareThought there was a touch of Perfect Storm to it...and Avitar....might have something to do with the fact that James Horner did all of them !
shareI've heard a certain notable piece used here in both A Perfect Storm and Seven Pounds, I like to call it 'that tragedy music'. Think I may have heard it in a few other flicks also.
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Everyone is correct. I love the music in this movie. I love it to where i can get a little teary listening to the soundtrack, especially the end credits music with the pictures of ther actors. However, James Horner as much as I love him, reuses his music very often in the movies mentioned about. I heard parts of it in Avatar, and The Perfect Storm. Deep Impact is another of his great soundtracks.
shareI thought it was very Schindler's List.
shareIt was another self-stealing, self-satisfied, lazy piece of Horner junk. It brought this otherwise good movie down several notches. Horner used his music from Balto and other of his scores to throw together this pastiche of masturbatory excess. Shame on Horner, and shame on the apparently tone-deaf producers who should have replaced the score after having heard the first ten notes.
shareHorner reuses a lot of his music in a lot of his work. Not large parts mind you, it's always just brief snippets. There's a track from Enemy at the Gates called "Tania" that shares parts from the theme of "Balto," another Horner picture.
https://nateschristmaswebquest.wordpress.com/spiderwick-chronicles/james-horner/james-horner-controversy/
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=29765&forumID=1&archive=1
Well, RIP James Horner. :(
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