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Crash_Davis
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Date Posted:
11/26/07 6:15am
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Intrada releases complete Alien score
Finally!
Since I don't have the 20th Anniversary DVD, I've never been able to fully appreciate Goldsmith's work for this movie. The closest I got was the Alien Trilogy Soundtrack released back in '96.
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Well_Of_Souls
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11/26/07 8:14am
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My copy should arrive pretty soon. I've been waiting for this score to be officially released for years.
This is probably my favorite Goldsmith score, even though it was butchered almost as much as
The Phantom Menace
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Ordered my copy today, but it's on backorder. Hopefully, it won't take too long!
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I was thinking about getting this, since I've heard how good it is, but I've never even seen the movie.
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I like Goldsmith's work in general, but this has never been one of my favorites.
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Darth_Vader-Anakin
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It's not the easiest score to get into.
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Trentman359
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neither is Planet Of The Apes, gotta love those 60s & 70s Goldsmith scores.
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I have to admit, Planet of Apes is a score I have tried to like multiple times, and I just can't do it.
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Trentman359
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Its one of my favorites. Just listen to "The Hunt." Great stuff.
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Crash_Davis
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I received my copy yesterday, and already I've listened to it 5 times. Amazing how much of the original score was butchered by Scott and Rawlings.
Excellent music, though. Really sets up a creepy, foreboding atmosphere, but at the same time, the main theme illustrates the beauty (and loneliness) of space travel.
If anyone is interested, it's only available for limited release.
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Crash_Davis
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If anyone is interested, it's only available for limited release.
How limited? I thought this wasn't a limited edition.
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Crash_Davis
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12/19/07 7:29pm
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I thought I remember reading it somewhere, but of course, now I can't find it. I've been waiting for this score for upteen years, so I jumped on it as soon as it was released.
Goldsmith crafted a real work of art with this score. The music is almost as frightening as the film itself.
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Well_Of_Souls
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12/20/07 6:56am
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RE: Intrada releases complete Alien score
I'm pretty sure it isn't a limited release.
It really is amazing to hear the score as Goldsmith intended. Some of the changes I agree with, but a lot more of his music should have been in the film, IMO.
Although, I do have a hard time deciding if his more romantic, sweeping Main Title would have worked better than the re-scored version heard in the film. The different tone might have worked well to subvert audience expectations, but at the same time it may have come across as out of place.
I really like Goldsmith's quote about how he wrote the original Main Title in a day and the re-scored version in 5 minutes.
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Crash_Davis
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12/20/07 7:13am
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I probably misread something somewhere. Perhaps I need another cup of coffee.
Although I love his original version for the Main Titles, I do feel like it would have been out of place with the opening shot of the film. I think that he wrote this version with the idea that the opening sequence was to be a long shot of a ship traveling through space, and scored the scene as such. However, with Scott's slow moving shot gliding across the planet with the hieroglyphic appearance of the title, I think his rescored version works better. Immediately you get a sense that the film is dark and foreboding.
Would be interesting to see a cut of the film with all of Goldsmith's original cues restored into the picture.
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Well_Of_Souls
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My problem with the replacement of the Main Title music (and the End Title for that matter) is that the landing scene still uses the sweeping "space travel theme" in the final cut and that music really never connects with any other moments in the film. It always feels out of place for me, given the musical soundscape established in the rest of the film.
It goes to show how Scott was working on a more moment-to-moment basis with the music compared to Goldsmith's "big picture" approach.
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Crash_Davis
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12/20/07 10:53am
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Agreed. Although I like the end titles for the film Howard Hanson's "The Romantic"?, I always felt that the music used for the facehugger's acid blood eating through the floor always felt way out of place. I think the score there is taken from Goldsmith's "Freud".
Although I thought the "Freud" cues worked well in the sequence where Dallas goes into the airshaft to try and flush the alien into the airlock.
I'm relatively new to film music, so I could be wrong on some of those cues.
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