The music is completely no go with the story, whenever the plot gets to intense, the stupid music starts to play. A real mood killer. How could Carol Reed make such a mistake i wonder!
shareDon't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
shareSeriously,it really bothered me as well. At first a just figured it was music of the time,but other movies of around the same time don't seem to have that annoying music.
"When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke; Luck and I weren't on speaking terms."
Oh please, "horrible" music? How can the "Grande Valse Brillante" by Chopin ever be described in this way! Yes, this is not an original composition (I assumed it was). Hey, if you're going to borrow, might as well borrow from the best, and it doesn't get much better than Frederic Chopin.
shareI don't think it's Grand Valse Brillante. I just listened to it.
From Wikipedia...
"The Third Man Theme" (also known as "The Harry Lime Theme") is an instrumental written and performed by Anton Karas for the soundtrack to the film The Third Man (1949).share
You may be right. I just found several passages that are so similar that I thought they had to be "lifted" from Mr. Chopin. Parenthetically, everyone raves about the music from THE THIRD MAN, but I don't hear any accolades for Addison's composition for THE MAN BETWEEN, which I think is superb. Sadly, the only available recording is about three minutes long. Pity.
shareI liked the Café Mozart sequence. There was nice zither music played at that point. But the instrument got a bit strident at times. It really jangled my nerves now and then. I don't if it was intentional to cause tension.
shareThe absence of Anton Karas's zither would really flatten the movie for me. I think the music added to the tension, darkness and mystique. And the man was a gifted artist: the zither, I'm told, is very difficult to master.
The whole film shows the world at strange angles, both literally and figuratively. The music works on that level, and anything else more conventional would not have, at least in the same way.
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
every carol reed movie shows the world in strange angles. the fallen idol shows the world in strange angles, literally and figuratively, and it doesn't have a unfit song played till exhaustion to ruin the movie.
shareLol just going to post a thread about how this has the best theme song of all time SMH
https://vimeo.com/user27342627
The music in this movie masterpiece is absolutely perfecto.
shareYou couldn't be further of the mark in my opinion, one of my favorite movie scores!
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