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Nyman wrote one of his most gorgeous, sweeping, thematic scores for the film. It reuses a couple of themes from his rejected Practical Magic score, which is my favorite of his.
Unfortunately, the score for The Claim was pretty thoroughly altered in the finished film. Major cues were dropped or put in other places, or cut-and-pasted. Nyman was incensed, as he made clear in interviews and the liner notes for his "Best of" CD, which included a couple of tracks from The Claim. Nyman and Winterbottom, who had been a great team up to that point, didn't work together again for a couple of years. Luckily they mended their relationship and have worked together multiple times since. Winterbottom has also hired Nyman's daughter Molly to score a number of his more recent films.
The score album for The Claim came out about six months before the film, at least in the US. I remember buying the album and listening to it constantly for months, before finally seeing he film and being horrified to see how the music had been mangled. I hated the film that first time, purely because I had fallen in love with the complete score on the album and was expecting it to appear exactly that way in the film. As I remember, almost the entire 10-minute finale cue, one of the highlights of the score, is dropped from the finished film.
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cody1949
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Nyman wrote one of his most gorgeous, sweeping, thematic scores for the film. It reuses a couple of themes from his rejected Practical Magic score, which is my favorite of his.
Unfortunately, the score for The Claim was pretty thoroughly altered in the finished film. Major cues were dropped or put in other places, or cut-and-pasted. Nyman was incensed, as he made clear in interviews and the liner notes for his "Best of" CD, which included a couple of tracks from The Claim. Nyman and Winterbottom, who had been a great team up to that point, didn't work together again for a couple of years. Luckily they mended their relationship and have worked together multiple times since. Winterbottom has also hired Nyman's daughter Molly to score a number of his more recent films.
The score album for The Claim came out about six months before the film, at least in the US. I remember buying the album and listening to it constantly for months, before finally seeing he film and being horrified to see how the music had been mangled. I hated the film that first time, purely because I had fallen in love with the complete score on the album and was expecting it to appear exactly that way in the film. As I remember, almost the entire 10-minute finale cue, one of the highlights of the score, is dropped from the finished film.[/endquote
Thank you so much for all the background information. I am so glad I found the CD on E-bay. Like you, the CD is destined for multiple spins.
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This is my single favorite Michael Nyman score. Glad you discovered it Cody.
Yavar
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GATTACA is also a stunning and highly melodic Nyman score.
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Actually GATTACA was the very first Nyman score I fell in love with, in the film itself. Very powerful. But on album I love The Claim the most (never seen the film).
Yavar
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