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This is a lovely score, with very little references coming down others (it's like we won the lottery). I really like how it's not all solo instruments or it's not all orchestra, but a happy medium. The final cue is worth the price of the album, easily.
By the way Thor, I win again...
The score:
Kevin 2
Thor 487638305
Have you seen the movie? I have the CD and listened to it a few times and thought it was mediocre, but after seeing the movie, it is quite the score. Just what the film needed!
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Another thread devoted to that Horner guy, goodness. Oh wait, I'm his biggest fan. A funny story, when I got the score, before I saw the film, I remember listening to it as I was cleaning my room, well once track 9 hit, I was like oh my gosh. I must have played track 9 about 20 times in a row. I just love it. The score in the film fits perfect and the last cue is Horner at his finest, in my humble opinion!!!
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actually a very good film too. Probably my favorite Horner score too.
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Sep 2, 2009 - 10:27 AM
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And to think he was a replacement composer for a film that DIDN'T fire the original composer. Yes, that's right. The original composer's score was locked into the film for the festival circuit, but before the was released to the general public (after it was purchased by a "major" studio), the score was replaced by Horner's work, which is, indeed, as beautiful as it gets. One of his finest works, in my opinion.
Joe
I remember reading about the film. It had a 'Christian Organization' backing it, I believe? Hired a great writer who did superlative scripts for Remington Steele. But I thought Horner was connected to film from the beginning. Interesting history. But I do agree with Joe, this score is as beautiful as it gets and a great surprise in its originality. Often it makes me think of the music from TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.... not that it resembles it... but it has that delicacy.
Disliked the movie.
Who was the original composer?
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Sep 2, 2009 - 11:27 AM
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KevinSmith
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And to think he was a replacement composer for a film that DIDN'T fire the original composer. Yes, that's right. The original composer's score was locked into the film for the festival circuit, but before the was released to the general public (after it was purchased by a "major" studio), the score was replaced by Horner's work, which is, indeed, as beautiful as it gets. One of his finest works, in my opinion.
Joe
I remember reading about the film. It had a 'Christian Organization' backing it, I believe? Hired a great writer who did superlative scripts for Remington Steele. But I thought Horner was connected to film from the beginning. Interesting history. But I do agree with Joe, this score is as beautiful as it gets and a great surprise in its originality. Often it makes me think of the music from TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.... not that it resembles it... but it has that delicacy.
Disliked the movie.
Who was the original composer?
Gabriel Yared.
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Sep 2, 2009 - 12:55 PM
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Trekfan
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Very nice score indeed. For some reason, I don't find the film itself holds up very well to repeat viewings (sort of the "once you've seen it once..." thing), but I enjoy revisiting the disc from time to time.
Hester and Sheriff are correct about the financing from a "Catholic organization" and Horner coming aboard at the last minute.
Kevin, was Yared really the composer who's score was turfed, or are you just joking re: what later happened on "Troy"? He has never been named anywhere, to my knowledge, and for a period of time I scavenged through all the press I could locate, contacted different members of the filmmaking team, etc. It was one dead end after another finding out. One producer insisted there was no first score, that it was just a collection of temp music and library music cues that they jettisoned in favor of Horner's original score, but that didn't seem accurate and I suspected his memory wasn't good or he wasn't involved on the scoring aspect. Where'd you hear conclusively it was Yared?
For nostalgia, here's an old rec.music.movies posting from February 3 1996:
Newsgroups: rec.music.movies
From: tommur...@aol.com (Tom MurphE)
Date: 1996/02/03 4:00 am
Subject: Horner To the Rescue!
In today's New York Times there's an article about a new movie called
"Care Of The Spitfire Grill" which was financed by a Catholic religious
order.
Anyway, after the movie was done and the producers were looking for a
distributor they felt the one weak element was the score so they "hired
James Horner, a well-known Hollywood composer, to create a new score in
time for Sundance. At screenings the audience wept, and bidding for the
film heated up."
Could it really have been the new score?
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Sep 2, 2009 - 1:52 PM
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KevinSmith
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Very nice score indeed. For some reason, I don't find the film itself holds up very well to repeat viewings (sort of the "once you've seen it once..." thing), but I enjoy revisiting the disc from time to time.
Hester and Sheriff are correct about the financing from a "Catholic organization" and Horner coming aboard at the last minute.
Kevin, was Yared really the composer who's score was turfed, or are you just joking re: what later happened on "Troy"? He has never been named anywhere, to my knowledge, and for a period of time I scavenged through all the press I could locate, contacted different members of the filmmaking team, etc. It was one dead end after another finding out. One producer insisted there was no first score, that it was just a collection of temp music and library music cues that they jettisoned in favor of Horner's original score, but that didn't seem accurate and I suspected his memory wasn't good or he wasn't involved on the scoring aspect. Where'd you hear conclusively it was Yared?
For nostalgia, here's an old rec.music.movies posting from February 3 1996:
Newsgroups: rec.music.movies
From: tommur...@aol.com (Tom MurphE)
Date: 1996/02/03 4:00 am
Subject: Horner To the Rescue!
In today's New York Times there's an article about a new movie called
"Care Of The Spitfire Grill" which was financed by a Catholic religious
order.
Anyway, after the movie was done and the producers were looking for a
distributor they felt the one weak element was the score so they "hired
James Horner, a well-known Hollywood composer, to create a new score in
time for Sundance. At screenings the audience wept, and bidding for the
film heated up."
Could it really have been the new score?
It was a joke...
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Sep 2, 2009 - 3:53 PM
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Olivier
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A wonderful score, quiet and soothing; I particularly love "open for Business" / "Reading the Letters", the ends credits, and some tracks whose titles I can't remember-- rather, I do remember the titles, but I always play the whole thing and am not sure of the tracks: "Mystery of the Night" and probably "The Trees"; well, other than the first three tracks I mentionned at the beginning, it's hard to pick favorite tracks, because the whole thing is most beautiful.
One of my most played CDs, and unarguably of the "desert island" kind, and one of Horner's very best.
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WHAT!?!!!!
Was he even around back then?
Gotcha...
You are sooooooooooooooo wicked! ;-)
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