Yes I do! I even bought the Universal re-issue because it was remastered, although I don't think it sounded any different from the older Milan CD. But yeah, great bombastic score with intimate moments and great love theme. I thought it worked well in the film. These days the mammoths would be digital rather than elephants in costumes. Still a very entertaining movie.
YOR just cannot get enough of Sarde's "Quest for Fire"!
This score is just fabulous!
Great tribal music with lots of outstanding percusion and choral!
And a killer love theme.
Who else loves it?
The love theme from this film is STUNNING. Truly and utterly stunning. The more dissonant passages are very Penderecki-like (the chopping bass motif that opens the score seems to have been inspired by his Passacaglia from his Magnificat), and it does a great job of provoking the primordial violence of man.
It is a great score all around, though I've always been annoyed by the really quiet, distant sound quality of the recording here as I feel it belies the intricacies of the orchestrational nuances at work at times.
Still a great great score regardless, and the love theme alone makes it worth a purchase! It's like if someone put Strauss's Alpine Symphony, early Trevor Jones and Basil Poledouris in CONAN-mode into a blender. Amazing cue!
Hmmm... I don't remember liking this very much when I first purchased it (and later, got rid of it) many years ago. But maybe I need to revisit it. I certainly liked the clip I just heard.
Damn you, YOR! You troglodytian provocateur! Yes, I remember liking it. But I can't really remember it! Now you force me to search the video store for it! Fie! Fie on YOR!
I bought the Original LP Soundtrack when the film came out.
I did enjoy the "Love Theme" the most back then. I didn't remember much more about it and it's sound.
Now, listening to it after so many years, I'm wondering if Sarde was going for that 2001 Ape Monolith Vocal sound? Amazing how much of it sounds like Alex North's rejected 2001 score that no one even heard back then.
I bought the Original LP Soundtrack when the film came out.
I did enjoy the "Love Theme" the most back then. I didn't remember much more about it and it's sound.
Now, listening to it after so many years, I'm wondering if Sarde was going for that 2001 Ape Monolith Vocal sound? Amazing how much of it sounds like Alex North's rejected 2001 score that no one even heard back then.
Aside for the "pre-historic" feel I really can't see any similarity with North's "2001" score. I believe in 1981 no one besides some of the "2001" crew has even heard it.
I bought the Original LP Soundtrack when the film came out.
I did enjoy the "Love Theme" the most back then. I didn't remember much more about it and it's sound.
Now, listening to it after so many years, I'm wondering if Sarde was going for that 2001 Ape Monolith Vocal sound? Amazing how much of it sounds like Alex North's rejected 2001 score that no one even heard back then.
Aside for the "pre-historic" feel I really can't see any similarity with North's "2001" score. I believe in 1981 no one besides some of the "2001" crew has even heard it.
I might be totally wrong about the North music. Maybe I'm just thinking the visuals were similar with the prehistoric men and the apes. I guess the music, especially some of the vocal stuff is like some of the Classical music Kubrick used in 2001. Please excuse my unclear brain.
This was the first Philippe Sarde music I ever heard. Saw the film in the cinema back when it was first released. Bought the LP upon that viewing. Absolutely loved it and have continued to do so to this day. Bought the expanded CD release (digipak, terrible cover) which is also brilliant. BUT!!! It's not my number 1 favourite score by him. That honour goes to FORT SAGANNE (a film I haven't seen).
