Also if you listen close, you'll hear a classic James Bond Theme we haven't heard in a while...
One of my favorites as a matter of fact..
It's just too cool.
Ford A. Thaxton
At last, a sop to the older fans. Simply terrific to have any John Barry put in an appearance around a contemporary Bond. While Craig has arguably continued what Timothy Dalton started (Imagine if he had accepted when they offered him OHMSS in 1968. It is a classic, great Bond now and would have been even better with the presence of a young Dalton.), personally, I find that Craig lacks any heroic charisma whatsoever. For that reason, I don't feel he is right for the part. That said, he has been amazingly successful. It's just a pity Dalton didn't do more. A talented actor, capable of great variety in his performances. Given that Eon now controls the rights to SPECTRE (at long last), and the snowy European locations, I am not entirely surprised that the theme (really a march) to OHMSS should put in an appearance. It's just a shame about the turgid tempo and orchestration. I wonder if they will use it for the ski sequences in the film? There's no music that's better to ski to! One can always hold out the vain hope that Newman might produce a theme for SPECTRE and that any song that's written is actually integrated with the score. However, if Newman is in charge, that may require a style of scoring from him that is not his usual approach. After the terrible score for Skyfall, I'm not holding my breath. Still, hats off to Eon. Someone there (film editor; music editor) clearly has a sense of the history of the whole series, not just the Craig era. That is something to be appreciated and celebrated. After Skyfall, I vowed I would not go to another Craig Bond. This may just make me reconsider and once more put my bum on a cinema seat. Stan
Interesting choice to pull that particular piece of music-
-It's the one Bond title song not to have a vocal, but I still think only long-time fans would recognize it -It's also to one of the most emotional and wretching Bonds up to the Craig era (the Craig Bonds are damned near 3-hanky weepers compared to pretty much everything except OHMSS).
Considering that the Sony e-mail leak revealed that some version of this script needed real work- I wonder if this music was brought in to artificially inflate the emotion of the story, or to seriously tie it in to Bond's worst day as an agent or ever?
This makes me more genuinely curious about the movie than the previous teaser hinting the Blofeld and Bond are possibly related (and I plead with the gods that they are not).
Jason, please let the Moderators do the moderating!
Clearly you can't tell the difference between what Thomas Newman will be doing for the final film and this advance preview which is a very different animal.
It was a good score ... much better than most of the wallpaper scores out there .
Are you discussing spotting the picture or the appropriateness of the score? After listening to Newman's intolerable noise, it made me wish they'd brought back David Arnold. At least he understands the Barry/Bond sound and what the essential nature of a Bond score should be, in order to have one feel that one is viewing a Bond film. Not happening with Skyfall. I am not an Arnold fan by any means. I would rather they chose someone like Guy Farley to score the films. he is a gifted melodist. Skyfall lacked coherent themes for the characters and the title song was not effectively integrated into the score. If you want to see what I mean about character driven themes, see any of the early Barry Bonds and Barry's last Bond score, The Living Daylights. Stan
Also if you listen close, you'll hear a classic James Bond Theme we haven't heard in a while...
One of my favorites as a matter of fact..
It's just too cool.
Ford A. Thaxton
What next? The return of the Gunbarrel to the beginning of the film, perhaps? Maybe the use of Barry's 007 Theme (No, not the Bond Theme Norman says he wrote.) somewhere? Steady on, let's not get carried away! Stan
It was a good score ... much better than most of the wallpaper scores out there .
Are you discussing spotting the picture or the appropriateness of the score? After listening to Newman's intolerable noise, it made me wish they'd brought back David Arnold. At least he understands the Barry/Bond sound and what the essential nature of a Bond score should be, in order to have one feel that one is viewing a Bond film. Not happening with Skyfall. I am not an Arnold fan by any means. I would rather they chose someone like Guy Farley to score the films. he is a gifted melodist. Skyfall lacked coherent themes for the characters and the title song was not effectively integrated into the score. If you want to see what I mean about character driven themes, see any of the early Barry Bonds and Barry's last Bond score, The Living Daylights. Stan
I respect your opinion - but I think you are blinded by a very limited idea of what a Bond score can offer.
Newman clearly composed several coherent themes for the characters. And his score is very intelligently put together. Intolerable noise? Not at all.
Also, if you research a little bit on the way the title songs are composed these days and how that affects the composition of the whole score you will know that it´s never up to the composer to decide this.
Especially as that other thread just seems to be about internet whining. In that case, that the finale of Skyfall is copied from Batman Begins.
The trailer of Spectre nails what a trailer should be exciting, mysterious and with a kick-ass bit of music. Using OHMSS was a masterstroke. Hopefully, we won't get a trailer highlighting the entire plot like they did with Jurassic World and Terminator Genisys.
