The music builds unbearably as Lillian suffers her heart attack before she's released by death with huge power chords and ending with quieter choral music which suggests there's something beyond.
I've been listening to the Indy scores the past week after having seen parts of the movies again (BBC has been broadcasting their shitty old transfers of the movies every weekend), and there certainly are some gems included in the trilogy;
The Map Room from Raiders is a sequence where Williams takes it to a new level of awesomeness. Not much is happening, we're just waiting for the sun to hit a certain spot and it's completely left to the music to sell it. There also was no need for the lights effect show, the importance of that moment could have done without the special effects extravaganza IMO.
The thuggee ceremony in Temple of Doom is a great sequence where Williams steps outside of his classical mode and goes rogue with a percussion/chant heavy source cue that really sells that scene and I believe they choreographed the sequence to it. It works well in the movie. It even gets reprised during the bridge fight at the end when Mola Ram goes for Indy's heart.
For Last Crusade, most definitely the whole opening sequence of "Indy's Very First Adventure" is a brilliant showcasing of Williams' range and later on the "penitent man will pass" sequence is another audiovisual highlight, sadly it's downhill from there with a rather lackluster climax.
The music builds unbearably as Lillian suffers her heart attack before she's released by death with huge power chords and ending with quieter choral music which suggests there's something beyond.
Unfortunately, I might have agreed with this aroudn the time the film was still new, but with decades of the Danger Motif, all I hear now are power chords of:
When The Enterprise and Reliant are exchanging phaser blasts in the Mutara Nebula. One of the most thrilling 20 seconds in film history. Thanks a lot to James Horners music.
I've been listening to the Indy scores the past week after having seen parts of the movies again (BBC has been broadcasting their shitty old transfers of the movies every weekend), and there certainly are some gems included in the trilogy;
The Map Room from Raiders is a sequence where Williams takes it to a new level of awesomeness. Not much is happening, we're just waiting for the sun to hit a certain spot and it's completely left to the music to sell it. There also was no need for the lights effect show, the importance of that moment could have done without the special effects extravaganza IMO.
The thuggee ceremony in Temple of Doom is a great sequence where Williams steps outside of his classical mode and goes rogue with a percussion/chant heavy source cue that really sells that scene and I believe they choreographed the sequence to it. It works well in the movie. It even gets reprised during the bridge fight at the end when Mola Ram goes for Indy's heart.
For Last Crusade, most definitely the whole opening sequence of "Indy's Very First Adventure" is a brilliant showcasing of Williams' range and later on the "penitent man will pass" sequence is another audiovisual highlight, sadly it's downhill from there with a rather lackluster climax.
There are SOOOOO many awesome moments in those Indy movies. My favorite is the Bug Tunnel in Temple of Doom.
