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Feb 13, 2013 - 2:19 AM
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Francis
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Please, excuse my bad english.
The special edition DVD includes an interesting interview with the two members of Orbital, Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Those interviews were produced, sadly, after Kamen's passing.
The Hartnoll brothers were first approched by director Paul WS Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt to score the movie. In the interview, the two musicians tell that they were not that confident about the whole thing. They never had scored a feature-long movie and they couldn't even work on the movie during the planned schedule (they were involved in a concert tour at the time). Kamen was then brought in. The filmmakers still wanted Orbital involved in a way or antoher and Kamen was very enthusiast about it.
They describe a bit their work with Kamen (and give praise to the man during the interview) : the composer invited them to record the sounds of an orchestra. Kamen made his orchestra musicians improvise on some gestures he had sketched. The idea was to give to Orbital some new sounds and samples to work with. The Orbital duo composed a piece with that material collected during those 'wild' recording sessions. They gave it to Kamen and they were done. It seems that it was Michael Kamen himself who incorporated their work into his orchestral score in the movie, but also arranged the soundtrack album, reworking the electronica stuff, and finally putting more emphasis on Orbital's contribution on the soundtrack disc than on his own.
Yes, that's the way I interpreted it as well. The album works but it get's a lot of criticism for the flat sounding orchestral recording, I think a 2 CD version with the score in C&C on one disc and the album remastered on the second would be very welcome.
I think I read La-La Land expressed interest in doing it but they said Orbital wasn't forthcoming? I hope it will still happen. EDIT: La-La Land was discussing Sunshine, not Event Horizon.
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Could someone release just the Kamen score, and bypass the Orbital issue all together?
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This is one of my favourite science fiction movies from the 90s (I'll defend it untill the day I die!), and this year, it's 20 years since it came out. Has anyone heard about any BluRay reissues of the film?
(I should also point out that I'm a huge Paul W.S. Anderson fan -- another director I will probably defend untill the day I die -- and think he only really did two turkeys [MORTAL KOMBAT and THE THREE MUSKETEERS]. The others are ripe with value!)
Losing all remaining credibility with a parenthetical.
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I picked up the blu-ray today, the 'special edition' one, not the barebones original. It has the 'minor' stretched vertical image but honestly, I couldn't tell from watching the picture. Extras are ported over from the dvd special edition but the real treat is the HD print which looks great. I did spot one or two specs pass by (wished they'd cleaned this up) but overall I'm glad I made the upgrade. There are such great shots in this movie (the panning out of the space station, the core twirling, the exterior shots of the event horizon), cool design all around.
