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well, at least the ost doesn't have one of those damn "reprises' JW is so fond of!
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I went to it Friday night. Very engaging - it's always a pleasure to witness Spielberg & crew's professionalism. Weird not hearing a Williams score, but Newman's music works very well.
A note on politics and art:
My main source of irritation with the film was the constant attempt to not distinguish any differences between the U.S. and the Soviets, plus the anti-Communist attitudes of most of the American characters were displayed in a cliche, tiresome, non-nuanced manner. This is not art, but a manipulation of day to day reality to make Hanks' character the sole white knight, Rylance's spy an uncomplicated sweetie, and the other characters dull monoliths. By coincidence, I re-watched the Alec Guinness TV production of le Carre's "Smiley's People" last week - a spy drama which also climaxes with a "bridge of spies" scene - and here the characters were so much more well-rounded and the reality of "spycraft" was beautifully shown in all of its messy detail. Guinness' Smiley was well aware of the Soviet threat, and also weary of the uphill battle against it. A more intriguing take on the Cold War, imo.
Boy SMILEY'S PEOPLE was a real week sister to the great TINKER, TAILOR...!!!!
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Just saw the film and Newman did a pretty decent job. I loved the Homecoming track the most. The film didn't use a whole bunch of music from what I could remember, but it didn't need it. Where they did use music though, it fit the scenes well. Because of Homecoming, I'm going to be picking this up, but really the whole score was nice.
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Is it available on CD outside of amazon? I haven't found it anywhere else.
Looks like Amazon is all there is.
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"Thanks to John Williams for giving me the opportunity to score this Spielberg film by being unavailable to score it himself"? 
Yavar
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"Thanks to John Williams for giving me the opportunity to score this Spielberg film by being unavailable to score it himself"?
Yavar
Who are you quoting there?
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Why is this CD really hard to get if you live outside America?
Saw the film this week. Enjoyed it. Spielberg in LINCOLN mode..lots of old men, sitting in brown/grey rooms...talking...and talking...for over two hours.
Unlike LINCOLN though, which bored me (personally), the subject matter was more to my liking, so I had a much better time here. It is overlong and very black and white (Fine/Upstanding Hanks, cuddly Russian spy, BAD AGENCY DUDES) but quite classy.
Parts of it reminded me of a Darabont film (in fact, without knowing and T Newman on hand, I would have guessed Darabont before Spielberg).
The Newman music was great, what little there was in the film. The first hour had hardly any.
It was only the last 30 minutes or so when he started to feature. Some of it was absolutely gorgeous. Which brings me back to...WHY-TF isn't the CD widely available??
It's Thomas Newman...for a Spielberg film...with Tom Hanks in it!!!
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Why is this CD really hard to get if you live outside America?
Saw the film this week. Enjoyed it. Spielberg in LINCOLN mode..lots of old men, sitting in brown/grey rooms...talking...and talking...for over two hours.
Unlike LINCOLN though, which bored me (personally), the subject matter was more to my liking, so I had a much better time here. It is overlong and very black and white (Fine/Upstanding Hanks, cuddly Russian spy, BAD AGENCY DUDES) but quite classy.
Parts of it reminded me of a Darabont film (in fact, without knowing and T Newman on hand, I would have guessed Darabont before Spielberg).
The Newman music was great, what little there was in the film. The first hour had hardly any.
It was only the last 30 minutes or so when he started to feature. Some of it was absolutely gorgeous. Which brings me back to...WHY-TF isn't the CD widely available??
It's Thomas Newman...for a Spielberg film...with Tom Hanks in it!!!
Agree with your comments, Kev! Enjoyed the film a lot but it's terribly predictable (one of the more predictable "twists" is blatantly signposted by dialogue early in the plot as if to apologise for its inevitability!) But it's a fabulous CD! It is back heavy - the last 3 cues are significantly longer than the rest (the longest clocking in at 10 minutes) - but it's sequenced so well that you hardly notice. Played it a half dozen times already - perfect combination of Newman's recent spy (Bond) style and Williams' sense of nobility. Loving Thomas Newman right now!
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Didn't even think about that at the time, but now that you said it, Bridge Of Spies totally felt more like a Darabont film.
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