I really like this film but I've always hated the score from hell that's with it. Not only is it very eighties and synthesized, it's also quite screechy and difficult on the ear. Nasty nasty
sharefunny that you should say that. I've always felt the opposite: great music! love the techy feel
shareThats really interesting, because Roger Ebert condemns this movie because of the score and the p.o.v. You should check out his review...
shareNot true at all--Ebert says it's a good but not great movie, with great performances from Hurt & Matlin. He has nothing at all to say about the score itself, but does wish they had used subtitles in scenes between Matlin & Hurt, rather than Hurt speaking out everything said.
shareWhat! I liked William Hurt speaking out everything she said. I thought it was an interesting take on it. It emphasized his understanding of Sarah. If the words were just playing across the screen there would have been far too much silence.
And the score was pretty bad in my opinion. It was way too synthasized, like the original poster said.
i truly LOVE this film...what attracted me most, instantly, about the film was the score. naturally, there is difference in opinions, but for me, the score worked wonderfully for the film.
shareI didn't really like the score either, but what I would like to know is what piece by Bach that is played a couple of times in the movie.
Anyone know? :)
It was Bach's Double Violin Concerto - second movemnt. He never seemed to get around to hearing it all!
shareThe Double Violin Concerto in D Minor
shareI loved the movie. I don't remember the score, except vaguely remembering I think I liked it. I only saw it a couple of times more than a decade ago, BUT, I always loved that scene where Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor was part of the scene and Marlee Matlin was so unhappy with William Hurt's "synesthesia reconstruction" of it in body language. I thought he did a Wonderful! job of emoting the emotions of the song in a physical form, much unlike Matlin's character!
LIS, I don't remember the score, but if it was electronic, I'm sorry, Allie-18, but you probably wouldn't like my music, either. Except, possibly one song I woke up with one day and played out (LIS, more than a decade later and I was very, very much trying to create a new song like that song, which I didn't know what it was until today, but much like the Hurt character, I was trying to make a new song, but with the same emotions. I was trying to create a totally different song, but still much like it, but only by feelings and emotions.
I'm not trying to pimp myself or my music, I just always wanted to say this somewhere, and I am VERY glad to finally find out what that piece of music was (thank you, imdb!). Music is very important and very emotional for me, and I really am happy to finally find out the name of that piece that is so intimately connected with my song. I am just a hobbyist/synthesist, and have never made a dime from music in any way except as a bouncer/setup teardown guy back in the early nineties.
The song is Salerno, and can be found at Soundclick.com/Oggy or here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=513260&content=music
I obviously need to rent the dvd since it means so much to me!
I think that the music was wonderful.
shareit's distracting from time to time, but it didn't ruin the film. it still holds up pretty well.
share"very eighties" ???
As opposed to a movie made in the eighties being very..... ninetees???
"very eighties" ??? As opposed to a movie made in the eighties being very..... ninetees???
A simpler orchestral score wouldn't obviously place the movie in any decade.
Though synthesized and mediocre, it wasn't a terrible score and didn't date this movie worse than others, like Manhunter which has a terrible distracting score.
He has nothing at all to say about the score itself, but does wish they had used subtitles in scenes between Matlin & Hurt, rather than Hurt speaking out everything said.
I felt this way about halfway through the movie, why aren't they use subtitles? The intimate scenes between Hurt and Matlin would have been so much more deep if they were silent. This was a real missed opportunity here.
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THE "SCORE FROM HELL"? RIDICULOUS! The music is very soothing and goes well with the gorgeous autumn scenes and the sometimes lonely landscapes of offshore New
Brunswick. The emotional impact of the music matches the emotional impact of the
acting!