Bourne Ultimatum Incidental Music
Why are they using the music from The Bourne Ultimatum on City Of Vice ?
sharethat's not a serious question, surely.
shareI've been told that the music is all original and was composed for the series long before the Bourne Ultimatum was released, but I know what you mean, at certain points there are similarities.
shareThe music is VERY VERY similar to John Powell's Bourne Scores - sure, it will have been composed before The Bourne Ultimatum, but the themes in the third film have existed since the first Bourne film back in 2002 or whenever it was. To me it sounded like a definite rip-off. Nor would it be the first time - music from Powell's Bourne scores has been ripped off for shows like Spooks before now.
Why was it used/ripped off? Well, cos it works, I guess. I got the impression that the themes were re-orchestrated to suit a historical period - but the string theme used in the closing action sequences of episode 4 is absolutely 100% derived from The Bourne Supremacy.
If there is any similarity at all it was accidental, I can promise you. The score is 100% new music.
share>>>If there is any similarity at all it was accidental, I can promise you. The score is 100% new music.
Unless you are yourself are Richard Blair-Oliphant posting under a slightly peculiar pseudonym, I don't think you can make that promise, can you..?
(Apologies if you ARE, but it's not very likely, statistically speaking, so I've written the below on the assumption that you're not)
I've been into into film and TV scores for about 20 years, and one of the first things you discover in listening to that kind of music is how often themes are borrowed, lifted, alluded to, or stolen from other sources. Some composers, such as James Horner, are absolutely notorious for it. It's very, very far from unusual to find music lifted from one place and represented as original music elsewhere - Eshkeri's recent score for Stardust contains a blatant (but very well executed) theft from Wojciech Kilar's score for Dracula. Total Recall's main theme is quite unashamedly borrowed from the main titles of Conan! Even one of the themes to Band of Brothers was a slightly bizarre reworking of a theme from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (though by the same composer, so I suppose that's natural enough).
TV soundtracks are certainly no stranger to this kind of borrowing - as I say, since series 5, Spooks has been unashamedly recycling the sound of John Powell's Bourne scores, which are very popular source tracks at the moment. As a big fan of the Bourne scores, I find it near-impossible to believe that a score as obviously similar could have occurred by accident. I very much like the music composed for City of Vice - but the similarity to John Powell's music is too blatant to escape the label of it being derivative. It's hardly as if this hasn't happened before.