By Bradley Morris
monday, october 24, 2022 at 7:22:00 a.m.
You and I have the same taste in soundtracks, Stix, including our mutual love of Jerry Goldsmith, the greatest composer in the history of film. His score for Damien: Omen 2 is my favorite score of all time.
Forrest Gump is a magnificent score by Alan Silvestri: winsome, heroic, poignant, romantic.
Suite
Full Album
1 Main Title 0:00
2 Runaway Train 5:08
3 Clawns 7:50
4 Thoughtful Night 11:07
5 Broken Ice 14:15
6 Fallen Temple 16:35
7 I Love You, Mark 19:32
8 Shafted 24:12
9 The Knife 26:44
10 End Title (All The Power) 29:47
Nothing beats "The Exorcist" for scary movie score.
ReplyDeleteOn a similar note--but not--Danny DeVito(77 years old)appeared on Seth Meyers' show Tuesday a.m. My TV apparently was on nbc--which led me to hear Meyers' announce gleefully that DeVito was scheduled,so I decided to give the remote control a half hour off.
First thing, which was obvious to anyone tuning in--was seeing DeVito walk onstage,in a similarly tortured gait that Don Rickles also had in his later years--which was shaky at best. If that wasn't bad enough,there were two gigantic,steep steps that led to the interview area which he had to climb,but he did so miraculously--and without help.
DeVito had a big ,black shirt on and it was easy to notice.that he looked like a bowling ball with glasses.
But the guy is one of the great stars of my era and he was promoting an animation show where he stars as Satan.
"Not for the kiddies,"he said.He also mentioned Mel Brooks is contributing a voice part and that DeVito has reciprocated by appearing in Brooks' "History of the World II" series.
DeVito's had a great career and he showed everyone how to be an interesting guest on a talk show--a rarity these days.
--GRA
Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" was not composed specifically for "The Exorcist ", but it is effective. Goldsmith's scores for the three Omen films are far superior in my opinion, although I think as a film, "The Exorcist " is far more layered. On Friedkin's next film, the criminally underrated "Sorcerer ", remake of French film, "Wages Of Fear", he used German synth group, Tangerine Dream. In later interviews Friedkin said if he'd known about them at the time of "The Exorcist ", he would have used them. What a score THAT would have been.
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