I discovered a new trailer for a new western. If you know me, you know I like westerns, especially westerns with rousing scores. Haven't heard a rousing western score in quite a while. I looked up the composer on IMDB and was VERY surprised to see that Alexandre Desplat will score a western. As far as I know, I don't remember him ever scoring a western. I see the movie is directed by Jacques Audiard, a French director who has used Desplat in previous films.
I know some don't care for Desplat and some love him. I've enjoyed a few of his scores, especially The Monuments Men. Of course, I would hope he would adopt the Americana sounds of Moross, Goldsmith and Bernstein, but I doubt that will happen. Serious doubt. Still, he might bring an interesting score to this western.
Just thought some of you western aficionados might be interested in a new western.
Yikes. Always amazes me how trailers cut for American audiences (and I'm an American) force everything to look broad and comedic. I always seek out foreign trailers and I'm always amazed at how different, and how much better, they are. Here's a French trailer (still in English, just with French subs) for the film:
Thanks Joan! Appreciate your highlighting of new westerns as they come out. I enjoyed Hostiles even though the score wasn't rousing.
BTW, have you seen Netflix's Godless miniseries? (I forget if I asked you already.) The score starts out very subtle and understated but by the last episode there's some rousing stuff!
Wow. Thanks Joan. I love Desplat and as you are fully aware, Westerns! I'll be watching for this. I sometimes despair that the era or rousing scores for Westerns is long gone, but a fella can dream. That doesn't mean there won't be some cool scores. Desplat has almost never disappointed me.
I also thought GODLESS was outstanding, with a nice feminist empowerment message. I wish there was a score CD.
My ability to kill threads doesn't seem to have lost power.
I'm just bumping this because 1) there ought to be more interest in a possible upcoming Desplat and 2) because the thread diverged a little into "rousing Western scores" , I would be remiss to not point out to anyone who has been off world recently or is hiding under a rock...that Jerome Moross' VALLEY OF GWANGI" is now out and qualifies as a great rousing "Western" score.
Whoa (note: appropriate Western reaction) thanks for aurally illustrating my comment in the release thread after watching the crossover flick. I'll take that as a compliment Lady j!
And speaking of compliments, M. Desplat is a throwback great and any of the Greats could be entrusted with whatever genre came their way or else they wouldn't be a Great. There is every reason to look forward to his effort.
Maybe I should e mail these to Desplat and tell him to go for rousing.
I'm dreaming with you, Ray.
Yes, please!
If anyone could do old-fashioned rousing, I'm betting Desplat could (if the director/producer would allow it). His GODZILLA main title is pretty rousing.
Not that Desplat isn't capable of "rousing", but Jacques Audiard, the director, may not give him the type of project that goes there. On the other hand he might.
I discovered a new trailer for a new western. If you know me, you know I like westerns, especially westerns with rousing scores. Haven't heard a rousing western score in quite a while. I looked up the composer on IMDB and was VERY surprised to see that Alexandre Desplat will score a western. As far as I know, I don't remember him ever scoring a western. I see the movie is directed by Jacques Audiard, a French director who has used Desplat in previous films.
I know some don't care for Desplat and some love him. I've enjoyed a few of his scores, especially The Monuments Men. Of course, I would hope he would adopt the Americana sounds of Moross, Goldsmith and Bernstein, but I doubt that will happen. Serious doubt. Still, he might bring an interesting score to this western.
Just thought some of you western aficionados might be interested in a new western.
Interesting (translation: stupid) that they would score the trailer with a cover of a tired-out rock tune from the 70s. Who are they trying to tantalize with that? (I think there should be a law that film trailers must include music from the films they are advertising! That would be called the Film Score Nerd Transparency Act.) Of course I'll have to see it, in spite of rather than because of the sappy trailer.
I too will be interested to hear how Desplat approaches his first western. Certainly he is fully aware of the brilliant, memorable scores contributed by his predecessors to the western genre over the years.
...(I think there should be a law that film trailers must include music from the films they are advertising! That would be called the Film Score Nerd Transparency Act.)...
Oh don't get me started Big D. I made a few choice inflammatory comments about this sort of thing in the original Mboard and can still recall being corrected--in the Faux News sense--by something of a HL antagonist. Anyway, can clearly remember what set me off: Hearing "Cadillac of the Skies" in a trailer for Heaven & Earth at the theatre.
