I loved this film, and I thought many quiet moments like these were expertly done by Williams. The soundtrack album is short, but that's mostly becuase they seem to have decided to restrict the music to a few key scenes.
I'm so grateful that the first four decades of my life (so far) have overlapped with Mr Williams. I look forward to Indy 5.
They rarely make film openings like this any more. In your face, loud score, hardly any dialogue, no hurry.
Merry Christmas everyone
Totally agree. This opening absolutely blew me away in the cinema. I was DESPERATE to get the soundtrack afterwards. If ONLY more movies had this, especially Batman movies...
Any list of mine starts with the scenes that got me into film music in the first place as a kid, and that's all the monster scenes in Harryhausen/Herrmann collaborations, of which there are too many to list.
Same goes for Morricone's spaghettis. Ecstasy of Gold and all those gun'downs'.
These two examples are what told me there was more to a film soundtrack that an opening theme. And yet most people's reactions to hearing of my collecting of film music is the idea that I collect and listen to themes compilations. The nearest most folks get to soundtracks.
We all miss Horner, but Simon Franglen did a great job, especially during this sequence. I remember the cinema being completely still and in awe during the entire sequence.
