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May 24, 2017 - 2:54 PM
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Zooba
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As we know DOG DAY AFTERNOON did not contain a film score by the request of director Sidney Lumet. (It has a Elton John song playing on the car radio in the Main Titles). Lumet also directed the Pacino film SERPICO, which again if it was totally up to Lumet, he would have it scoreless. In that case, producer Dino De Lurentis insisted that the film have a score and wanted Mikis Theodorakis, who eventually did score the picture. I love the score.
3 other Al Pacino films were scored by Dave Grusin, including BOBBY DEERFIELD, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL and AUTHOR! AUTHOR! For a while it seemed Grusin was the "go to" Pacino film scorer.
Here's the question.
If Dave Grusin had scored DOG DAY AFTERNOON and a rejected SERPICO score (instead of Mikis in that case) and the tracks were recently discovered, would you put out $19.95 for a Twofer CD of those unreleased scores?
I surely would. I love Grusin and the work he did on all 3 Pacino's.
Who'd here would go for it?
And my second question to you is, what is your favorite score from a Al Pacino movie? Any film Pacino was in will be accepted, from SCARFACE (Moroder) to HEAT (Goldenthal) to THE GODFATHER (Rota) to DICK TRACY (Elfman) and all others.
Thanks.
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Grusin scoring two classic 1970s Lumet-Pacino movies? I wouldn't think twice about purchasing a CD of this - even in the unlikely case they had been mediocre Grusin. A Grusin Serpico would probably have been superb, but I'm so used to the use of no score in DDA that it's mighty hard to imagine how any music would work in it.
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Here's the question.
If Dave Grusin had scored DOG DAY AFTERNOON and a rejected SERPICO score (instead of Mikis in that case) and the tracks were recently discovered, would you put out $19.95 for a Twofer CD of those unreleased scores?
That's a lot of "ifs", but to answer your question: yes.
Sounds exactly like the Twofer of unknown scores I'd pick up.
And my second question to you is, what is your favorite score from a Al Pacino movie? Any film Pacino was in will be accepted, from SCARFACE (Moroder) to HEAT (Goldenthal) to THE GODFATHER (Rota) to DICK TRACY (Elfman) and all others.
Thanks.
My most played film score to a movie starring Al Pacino (and so my off the top of my head candidate for favorite score) is SCENT OF A WOMAN by Thomas Newman.
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Would I have paid money for a score I have no idea how would have sounded? No, not really. Odd question
I do that a lot, actually. :-)
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Favorite Pacino scores:
1 Scarface - Giorgio Moroder
2 The Recruit - Klaus Badelt
3 Sea Of Love - Trevor Jones
4 Scent Of A Woman - Thomas Newman
5 Heat - Elliot Goldenthal
6 The Insider - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
7 The Son Of No One - Jonathan Elias & David Wittman
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