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Any Sergio Leone movie with an Ennio Morricone score!
anything by John Williams
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Mission
Just Ennio Morricone
Ok 633 Squadron can go in there as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXQUhBsUVMQuote:
Originally Posted by binman
https://youtu.be/oDOH3ViMmCM?t=1
Classic ..
Big Country - a stirring Western starring Gregory Peck
Somewhere in Time - Music based on Rachmaninov's Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKGhG0W0LQ
Where Eagles Dare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqONgYHYo88
Best ever TV theme. World at War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwUmsjbKsrU
Ice Station Zebra
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
In combination with the opening sequence it used to chill me. It set the tone for a serious and sober portrayal of horror and pain - with no escape. No romanticism. No false patriotism. Just a grim and relentless catalogue of human folly, evil and ordinary heroism.
Probably my favourite titles/theme tune on tv.
Arena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOy31m4IWrA
Surprised there's been no mention of The Dambusters yet...
Jurassic Park
If you played this for a tribesman newly emerged from the Brazilian rainforest, with absolutely no life experience beyond his remote village, he would instantly envision cowboys, horses, vast open plains and big, big sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Psycho
I'd say with Psycho while the use of music does contribute a huge amount to the unsettling feel of the movie it seems to me more incidental music rather than a "theme tune" per se, although it has been a long time since I watched it. I think it was only using string instruments if I remember correctly?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter.
Hear a couple of bars of any of those (or in some cases a couple of notes) and you instantly know which film it is. And each of those films would have been significantly less without those scores.
All the work of the same man - John Williams
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
My late dad and I's favourite programme of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
The score (by Carl Davis who I had to look up), along with the Laurence Olivier's narration and real footage of the war make the compelling to watch even today.
Zulu?
Here's the top 25 movie themes, according to the American Film Institute:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27...of_Film_Scores
As for TV themes, I was always partial to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1HnDGTAK8
Surely - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTcQuote:
Originally Posted by bobh
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
I always liked this one, from Tele:----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hps6L5vS0sc
Kelly's Heroes
Here are a few of my favourites
Lawrence of Arabia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxH...channel=mikt87
Bridge over the River Kwai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4N...ChristianBates
Ben Hur Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmoW...SoundtrackFred
Oh and of course
The Dambusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tF...nel=lawscottie
Probably my favourite TV theme tune or in this instance theme song is from The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, sung by Christine Collister. A very very beautiful song.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
Schindler's List aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I think I must be alone in liking the James Bond soundtracks.
Not at all, they are distinctive, and generally set the right tone - I don't like all (many) of them as songs, but as theme tunes the tick all the boxes .Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
For youQuote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxgcGvJwEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-orFtcORyuM
Indiana Jones!
John Williams says himself that he was greatly influenced by composers of the 30's and 40'Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
"I’ve been particularly fascinated with the émigrés from Europe in the 1930s — people like Max Steiner and Erich Korngold, but also Vernon Duke and Kurt Weill, who came with [directors] Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch to Hollywood. They brought this tremendous European culture. In a certain sense, my colleagues and I are the artistic grandchildren of these men. We have been the beneficiaries of a rich tradition that grew up here in the early days of sound, in the 1930s and 40s.”
Here is Korngold's Sea Hawk. There are certainly stylistic similarities here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-RP...el=violinthief
However it is probably even more marked in the theme from King's Row a film from a galaxy far far away, sorry 1942!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysC...Gerhardt-Topic
A longer version of the King's Row music for anyone interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf47...hannel=Rodders
There is of course far more to John Williams music than just a few similar extracts, but it is interesting to know where his influences come from.
Just for good measure here is some of Korngold's music from The Adventures of Robin Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6d...SoundtrackFred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCo5GaDq7kQuote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Burning Bridges by Mike Curb Congregation
ahh..the memoriesQuote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
very powerfulQuote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue