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 Posted:   Feb 23, 2014 - 6:00 PM   
 By:   edwzoomom   (Member)


I just sat through a commercial free showing of this epic film on TCM. The beautiful score permeates every scene and made for an amazing viewing experience. I hope others here have the same opportunity. What a great way to spend a dreary winter afternoon.

 
 Posted:   Feb 23, 2014 - 6:06 PM   
 By:   Advise & Consent   (Member)

Agreed. The score is wonderful and the CD set is now a bit pricey, but very well worth it. I believe that Tarantula Records still has copies. A veritable gem.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 23, 2014 - 6:30 PM   
 By:   dan the man   (Member)

That main theme by KAPER,sets me flying every time. Acutely energetic.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 23, 2014 - 10:51 PM   
 By:   pp312   (Member)

That main theme by KAPER,sets me flying every time.

And people rave about cocain and heroin! How little they know. smile

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 3:17 AM   
 By:   brofax   (Member)

I was lucky to see this movie (twice, LOL) when it was first released in Ultra Panavision 70 on a giant 70mm screen. The critics gave it a hard time but I loved it and the score is one of the greats, IMHO.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 8:57 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Kaper composed a stunning score for this movie. Big, epic, bold and gorgeous!!

 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 9:09 AM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

Agreed. The score is wonderful and the CD set is now a bit pricey, but very well worth it. I believe that Tarantula Records still has copies. A veritable gem.

The Tarantula is a bootleg (in the U.S.) and vastly inferior to the FSM issue.


For those wanting a generous selection of full cues from the film, visit the FSM CD site via Screen Archives. More than an hour of cues may be downloaded that represent a generous portion of FSM's 3-CD issue.

 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 9:11 AM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm?cdID=313

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 9:32 AM   
 By:   Bob Bryden   (Member)

Phenomenal score. The FSM CD is superb.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 10:13 AM   
 By:   arne.dupont   (Member)

The Tarantula Records album is not a bootleg, - it is the real thing from FSM.
http://www.tarantula-records.com/shop/artikelauswahl.php?kat=CD+%C2%B7+KOMPONIST%2FCOMPOSER~%C2%B7+KAPER

 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 11:29 AM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

The Tarantula Records album is not a bootleg, - it is the real thing from FSM.
http://www.tarantula-records.com/shop/artikelauswahl.php?kat=CD+%C2%B7+KOMPONIST%2FCOMPOSER~%C2%B7+KAPER


Then it's NOT on the Tarantula label...it's being sold in the Tarantula Records web site!

Sorry about that.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 11:55 AM   
 By:   Loverozsa   (Member)

I agree- a stunning score. I'd love to see a complete release of "Lord Jim". It's no as impressive as
Bounty, but still a great score by a classic composer.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 12:48 PM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

I agree- a stunning score. I'd love to see a complete release of "Lord Jim". It's no as impressive as
Bounty, but still a great score by a classic composer.


Sixties Columbia? Little or no chance that the music tapes survived, it's a drag, but there you go.

Lord Jim is being released on Blu-ray in France in a few months time, & with Sony's record of great HD remasters it should look & sound fantastic. I'd put money on Twilight Time releasing a Blu in America, as it's right up their street.

 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 1:08 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

If Twilight Time does a Blu-ray of Lord Jim, they might be able to piece together an isolated score and effects track as they've done for other Columbia titles. It'd be better than nothing!

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 24, 2014 - 7:38 PM   
 By:   pp312   (Member)

I was lucky to see this movie (twice, LOL) when it was first released in Ultra Panavision 70 on a giant 70mm screen. The critics gave it a hard time but I loved it and the score is one of the greats, IMHO.

The critical response to Mutiny is one of the greatest deceptions ever perpetrated on the paying public. The film is brilliant, but because of their antagonism to Brando and epics in general the critics deliberately set out to sink the ship, and succeeded. And that ship still hasn't been critically righted. You still see people who've probably never seen it referring to it disparagingly. I almost fell for the deception and stayed away until it reached the suburbs. When I saw it I couldn't believe this was the same film I'd read so many bad reviews of. Amazing what non-filmic factors can affect the perception, and thus reception, of even the most intelligent and carefully-crafted film.

 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2014 - 9:11 PM   
 By:   General Kael   (Member)

I bought this about two months ago for a hefty $60, but I sure am glad I did. Not only was it worth the price tag, but the cheapest copies are now listed at $160!

Although, I just checked and Screen Archives actually has one used copy for $82. If you're sitting on the fence on this one, buy that copy now! The Main Theme alone might validate that parking ticket.

 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2014 - 6:19 AM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

Morituri was openly disparaged by Brando himself, yet, the action on board the actual ship lends to it a unique feel of realism that sets the film apart. I've always liked the scene where Brando's character is made to feel a little hot under the collar.

As for Mutiny, the music for the final segment is poetry in motion.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2014 - 7:42 AM   
 By:   pp312   (Member)

I'm of the opinion that many of Brando's 60s films were unfairly dismissed, to say the least. One Eyed Jacks, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Appaloosa, Morituri, The Chase, The Ugly American, The Young Lions--all fascinating films made more so by Brando's charismatic performances. Yet all have been torn to pieces by the critics, for reasons I find highly suspect. Yes, Brando was a naughty boy, but that was no reason to persistently mislead the public into believing all his films were crap.

Incidentally, one of Brando's greatest performances is in the 1989 anti-apartheid film, "A Dry, White Season". Another victim of the critics.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2014 - 8:44 AM   
 By:   basmith   (Member)

Kaper's score is in my favorite 15 or so film scores ever. I find the film to be very enjoyable despite Brando being terribly miscast. His accent is horrendous and he is far less engaging in the role than Clark Gable was in the 1930s. Don't get me wrong...he was a great actor with many fine performances...but this one nearly scuttled an otherwise very strong film, both onscreen and off.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2014 - 8:45 AM   
 By:   eriknelson   (Member)

I'm of the opinion that many of Brando's 60s films were unfairly dismissed, to say the least. One Eyed Jacks, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Appaloosa, Morituri, The Chase, The Ugly American, The Young Lions--all fascinating films made more so by Brando's charismatic performances. Yet all have been torn to pieces by the critics, for reasons I find highly suspect. Yes, Brando was a naughty boy, but that was no reason to persistently mislead the public into believing all his films were crap.

Incidentally, one of Brando's greatest performances is in the 1989 anti-apartheid film, "A Dry, White Season". Another victim of the critics.


TCM recently aired an interview with Eva Marie Saint, who knew Brando well. Not only did they make ON THE WATERFRONT together, but were also in the Actor's Studio at the same time. She commented that, in her opinion, Brando lost his passion for acting after the 1950s.

 
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