So, they used to be a thing, in the Olde days. That BIG flourishing triumphant piece of music that heralded the end of the film and sent the audience out into the light with a big smile on their face. Goldsmith has quite a few of them on his resume. Two similar sounding ones for his 70s sci-fi clunkers LOGAN'S RUN and DAMNATION ALLEY. Cool ones for ST-TMP and FIRST GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. My two absolute favourites though, are CAPRICORN ONE, with its euphoric end piece as James Brolin crashes his own funeral to tell the world that Governments and Space programs are EVIL, and THE FINAL CONFLICT (OMEN III) wherein glowy God himself appears to laugh at Jurassic Sam as he sits off and Goldsmith goes absolutely fkn nuts with his choir and orchestra (makes we wanna go to church again). What are some of yours?
Before he rules on that, I'm going to say that my favorite end titles are from Leviathan and The Swarm. Two of the most joyous pieces of music I've ever heard.
The Shadow. The taunting version of Khan's theme. The love theme. The final statement of the Shadow's theme. It's got everything.
Outland's was very beautiful. Granted, it would've been inorganic to have the love theme show up in the rest of the score more often, but it really packs a kick here.
And The Final Conflict, because duh!
In researching, I remember that Joe Dante's films had a ton of great finale cues (Small Soldiers, Innerspace, The 'burbs).
And honorable mention to Poltergeist II for the Dante-like music that closes out the film.
My two absolute favourites though, are CAPRICORN ONE, with its euphoric end piece as James Brolin crashes his own funeral to tell the world that Governments and Space programs are EVIL, and THE FINAL CONFLICT (OMEN III) wherein glowy God himself appears to laugh at Jurassic Sam as he sits off and Goldsmith goes absolutely fkn nuts with his choir and orchestra (makes we wanna go to church again). What are some of yours?
Even before I read your comments, those two were my immediate responses also. The Capricorn One finale track is one of the first pieces of film music I really noticed.
This type of track, for me, is inseparable from the film, so . . . The Great Train Robbery, for reasons that any one of you who have seen the film can supply.
