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Did Onya get to revisit Land of the Giants and hear Williams @ his best for Irwin Allen?
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Is this as close as Williams came to making an exotica album?
No, Jaws doesn't have exotica content.
The Hawaiian-sourced Diamond Head might be the album closest to exotica.
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OnyaBirri :
You appear to have little interest in film music, your distain of scores from the 1980's and in general is beyond explanation?? Why are you even in this forum??
Not everyone blindly worships and glorifies the '80s, even if they had the tragic misfortune of having been a child during that time.
I have been a teenager of the 80´s and do not blindly worship them at all. However, I don´t consider it being a tragic misfortune having spent my formative years in that time at all.
And while everyone is entitled to their opinion I wonder why some opinons (hating the 80´s, Steven Spielberg, John Williams´ music for 80´s landmark films) have to be expressed in a way that is obviously designed to provoke or at least enjoying the feeling of being a contrarian and therefore superior.
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Feb 22, 2017 - 6:02 AM
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Tall Guy
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Without giving away any spoilers, is the film any good? Really looking more for 70s visual and stylistic content more than a conventionally "good" film.
In that case, you've come to the right film. Based on yet another attempt to create an American James Bond, the books were entertaining page turners, and I loved the film as a 15 year old when it came out. I have the distinct memory of going to see it two or three times at the cinema, one time taking my Dad's hand-held Philips dictation machine to record the main title. I can still hear in my mind the quavering notes on the mini-tape in the Philips, which was a machine designed for the human voice rather than high fidelity music recording.
It opens with a brutal chase through quaint city streets, and culminates with a fairly tense (if slightly drawn out) mountain climbing escapade. I know that my good friend MusicMad down't care at all for what comes in between, but on this occasion I'm programmed by my teenage inculcation to see it differently. Looking back on it now, there are parts that are almost (but not quite) as cringe-worthy as Moonraker but they're played more deadpan. We all laughed at the camp villain, at a time when being gay and being camp were one and the same. And we wanted to be in Clint's running shoes when he broke through "the wall" in his training with the promise of a clinch with George.
It's a twisty-turny tale of spies and betrayal, with a mercenary anti-hero (who foreshadows Indiana Jones in his private life) and an albino "M". It includes quite a lot of quotably sarcastic lines, such as (might be paraphrasing):
"My superior wants to see you"
"Well that doesn't rule many people out"
And I think I mentioned George already. And the music, which is based partly on a couple of baroque chamber melodies, one for the main titles and love theme, and one for the training scenes. The main theme also appears in the tenser moments, transforming into a awe-struck version for some of the more spectacular mountain vistas. It's unmistakably Williams, but is as close to Morricone as I can recall him going.
Having typed all this has made me want to see the film again, can't say fairer than that.
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Onya, I don't recall you offering any feedback to us on your thoughts/impressions regarding the pilot episode music by Williams for Land of the Giants
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