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Anybody familiar with this score? What can you tell me about it. Is it worth getting?
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The movie was ridiculed on its release, eventually sweeping the Razzies, but I loved it, saw it 4 times. It's an intentionally old-fashioned romantic melodrama. However it's intelligent, generally historically accurate, beautifully photographed, and the score is gorgeous.
It's a big, thematic, orchestral score like nobody does anymore. It was intentionally a throwback, the whole movie is intended to feel like a big glossy 1940s studio thriller. A bit Hitchcockian. I don't think many critics got that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-EyYgfpgNc
Die Hard it is not.
Actually...
yes, the first half of the score is lush and romantic, but the final portion of the film is a dark, brutal thriller.
Skip to say 14:40 in the clip, it sounds a lot like DIE HARD in the best possible way, Kamen's distinctive voice for thriller music.
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Griffith is the big casting error here.
Kamen can score pretty much anything well.
She replaced Debra Winger, who was originally cast, and who was actually the inspiration for the character in the novel.
http://bobbyriverstv.blogspot.com/2012/05/shining-through-with-susan-isaacs.html
I actually like Griffith in the role, with her little girl fragility, yet a core of strength. I was a big fan of hers in the 90s, but I think Winger would have been more roundly accepted in the role.
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Thanks for the feedback. Managed to find it for a decent price on Ebay, it really is an excellent score
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The Swiss Border cue and the schmaltzy main theme are worth getting it for, I think. I had it on cassette back in the day, so you can imagine that I was bedding many women at the time.
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That's what I don't get about popularity of his score for The Last Boy Scout. Kamen hated the movie, and it shows in the music. Maybe everyone just assumes that it's some lost action classic, but you can barely hear it in the movie, and on disc it's not much more audible.
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Revisited this score today.
Wonderful Main Title & End Credits tracks - some other good stuff too.
Graham
Love that one moment where Kamen *almost* takes off the shackles and lets loose in that border cue.
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