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Author	Topic: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen
Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/4/07 7:26pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 125. L.A. Confidential (1997) - Jerry Goldsmith
	No, I don't remember it...
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/12/07 6:38pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 125. L.A. Confidential (1997) - Jerry Goldsmith
	126. Laura (1944) - David Raksin This is Raksin's third and final appearance on this list. This score was nominated for no awards. I was rather shocked to see Raksin, a rather banal composer, get three scores on the list. Even this, his best in my opinion, isn't a great score as much as it's a great theme. The main theme is incredibly beautiful and lush; but the incidental music is pretty basic. I guess I'm okay with top 250, but that's about all for this one. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/13/07 9:08am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 126. Laura (1944) - David Raksin
	I think the song was added later, and that's all I remember.
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 1/13/07 2:47pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 126. Laura (1944) - David Raksin
	I probably give main themes too much credit, but oh well. I still think this score is top 100 material and even top 50. That main theme is just so beautiful. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/13/07 5:27pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 126. Laura (1944) - David Raksin
	The main theme was adapted into a song, if I remember correctly. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/20/07 5:39pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. 126. Laura (1944) - David Raksin
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre This is Jarre's second and final appearance on this list. This score was nominated for a Grammy, along with Alex North's Cleopatra, but it lost, idiotically to John Addison's cringe inducing Tom Jones. It took home an Oscar, beating out a strong slate of contenders, including Bernstein's To Kill a Mockingbird, Waxman's Taras Bulba, Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty and Goldsmith's Freud. This is a riveting score; the main theme gets all the press and its a doozy for sure. But the rest of this score is brilliant as well. This is easily Jarre's best and easily a top fifty at the very, very least; quite possibly top twenty-five. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/20/07 9:48pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
	Even I remember this one...
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 1/21/07 1:49am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre - Date Edited: 1/21/07 1:54am (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	I bought this massive book on the entire history of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA from the background of Lawrence, to the numerous attempts to get a film made, to the history of the Lean film and it's extremely lengthy production, and finally to the 1992 restoration. It's an amazing saga. There's some very interesting stuff about Maurice Jarre in the book. Richard Rogers of Rogers and Hammerstein was originally signed to score the movie and he mailed some sheet music of some themes to David Lean from New York and Lean hated them. And then producer Sam Spiegel recommended Maurice Jarre, who was already a successful French composer. Because the post-production (editing, sound effects, re-recording dialogue, color corrections, recording the score, sound mixing, final printing) on this HUGE film had to be done in a microscopic twelve weeks, Jarre had to write the entire score in FIVE weeks. He got an office in central London near the editing rooms where David Lean and editor Anne Coates were working, and as each ten minute reel was finished, Jarre was given a copy of the reel and started work on it. He rarely went home, sleeping in the office with his piano much of the time. Five weeks to write a score this big and orchestral is not much time. I read John Williams said it always took him a very busy 3 months to write a score for the Star Wars movies because there was so much music and the orchestrations were so dense. Star Wars movies are about 2 hours long, Lawrence of Arabia is almost 4 hours long. That Jarre came up with a score this big, this good and extraordinary is amazing...the poor man was absolutely exhausted. He also had to create the famous overture and intermission music (which movies no longer have) which just put even MORE work on his plate. It's one of my all-time favorite movies scores for one of the all-time great films. It's definitive iconic film music. Right at the beginning, when you see how perfectly Jarre has synchronized the music with the opening credits and Peter O'Toole prepping the motorcycle, you know the score will be awesome. Those themes, wow! I think perhaps the best music in the film is when Lawrence goes back on to the Sun's Anvil to rescue Gasim. There's a whole section of the film during this heroism where there is no dialogue whatsoever, the story is told purely through Lean's images and Jarre's majestic music, and the welcome Lawrence gets when he returns to camp, and the music that supports it is just perfect. I get chills. If ever a film score deserved an Oscar, it''s this one. -----signature----- Namaste.
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ShrunkenJedi Registered: Apr '03	Date Posted: 1/21/07 5:53am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
	I couldn't agree more. One of the few film scores that I remember after the film-- which is quite a feat given how great the rest of the film is. That's an interesting note, how it was written in such a small amount of time! -----signature----- Fanficcer and Fanartist: Check the profile! (or below) My Fanfic Index: http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/25405090/r30292337/
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 1/21/07 1:17pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
	Truly one of the best. Top 25 for sure. It really did have some stuff competition that year with other scores. I still think To Kill A Mockingbird has the better score, but that's just me. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/29/07 6:45pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
	128. The Lion in Winter (1968) - John Barry Nominated for a Golden Globe, along with Rota's Romeo and Juliet, the Shermans' Mary Poppins, Rosemary's Baby and Legrand's Thomas Crown Affair; They all lost to North's Shoes of the Fishermen (?). Fared better on Oscar night, taking an Oscar and beating out North, Legrand, Schifrin's Fox and Goldsmith's Planet of the Apes (which should have won). This is Barry's fifth appearance on the list. This is a very good score, but not Barry's best. It's another example of his great utility at different genres; you wouldn't think this score and Goldfinger had been written by the same person. Barry uses choral force very well here. But Goldsmith's Apes was the best this year, by far. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/29/07 8:14pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. John Barry's The Lion in Winter
	I don't have the musical ability to recall the score, much; but the title theme is very striking.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/6/07 8:19pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. John Barry's The Lion in Winter
	129. Lord Jim (1965) - Bronislau Kaper Nominated for no awards. This is Kaper's third appearance on this list. Saw this film; didn't think much of it, despite a great lead performance by O'Toole. Not a patch on the novel, one of the twentieth century's great tragedies. Don't remember the music at all. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/7/07 11:33am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bronislau Kaper's Lord Jim
	Ditto; seen the movie, which is a hash of a great subject. So enraged I did not remember the music, either.
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 2/7/07 8:28pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bronislau Kaper's Lord Jim
	I watched Lord Jim and wasn't impressed with the score. I can only assume it has some sort of historical significance like the first to use a certain instrument? Lion In Winter is a great movie that makes the score more than the score making the movie. Sorry John Barry. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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