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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: Marathon Man/The Parallax View |
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We have one or two CDs every year where after it's done I exhale and say, thank god we got that one done! Marathon Man is a jewel.
Lukas
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Indeed it is Lukas! It was worth it (and I know that's easy for me to say, who put no work whatsoever into purchasing it).
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We have one or two CDs every year where after it's done I exhale and say, thank god we got that one done! Marathon Man is a jewel.
I'm guessing The Yakuza was another one for you, in a past year.
Was Marathon Man the only release like that for you this year, so far? Star Trek III maybe?
Yavar
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I'm assuming that Lukas exhaled and dabbed the sweat off his brow after getting this great CD out simply because it is another release he can be proud of, which had been a holy grail for many for so long. But maybe he means it was such a pain in the arse (ass) to get over all the bloody hurdles that he thought at the end - "Thank the Lord that's over!" Or is it a bit of both?
Didn't LK also mention once that he can't listen to THE OMEGA MAN any more simply because of all the work it entailed to get the damn thing out? And that was one of his favourite scores at one time! Is there now a kind of love/hate relationship with MARATHON MAN? (We all love it, he now hates it!) Or am I reading too much into this?
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Jul 23, 2010 - 2:20 AM
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Ag^Janus
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I rewatched Marathon Man a few weeks ago to help me hear/appreciate the score better.
I was so busy playing Parallax View over and over (the real meat of the CD for me) that I didn't mind putting off listening to MM for awhile.
Strangely, I remembered individual scenes from the film, but not the whole.
The Scheider balcony attack scene, the love scene, drilling scene, recognition on the streets and the climax on the metal stairs were all vivid to my memory. But I'd forgot their connection to the whole thing. Quite weird, because I've never had that happen with any other film before.
The main theme wraps itself in your brain and stays there. The Parallax redo theme is wryly amusing. The Chase tracks are amazing, you just don't hear stuff like that anymore.
Either score would have made a tremendous CD on it's own.
Put together, they're the essential film score purchase of the year.
Parallax is a whole step up from Marathon Man in terms of creative achievement. Small hits the nail perfectly on the head, too bad it's not Marathon Man that was lost and Parallax in glorious sound. Still, even with the current state of the recording it can be enjoyed so easily, it's everything someone is looking for from Michael Small and more. Who knows whether one day the original media will "turn up".
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Paramount released The Parallax View and Chinatown within the same week way back in 1974. But Chinatown was the smash!
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Nearly a year since this was released by FSM.
Quite a blockbuster score.
A most-cherished release. I'd love to see a Criterion edition of Parallax View.
That would be swell. The original DVD is 12 years old and apparently not so easy to come by these days.
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