I watched this movie for the first time last night on DVD. It was soooo wonderful. I was wondering if anyone had the soundtrack with the poetry of Naruda on it by Hollywood stars? Is it any good? I listened to a few on the dvd. Most sounded good but Ethan Hawke was appalling and julia Roberts was not too good either!
shareI watched Il Postino today for the very first time, shame on me, but I`ve been able to listen to the soundtrack in advance, and I must say it`s certaily worth buying. I mean, it got an oscar, so maybe... it`s really good!?
What´s for them celebrities reading "Don Pablo`s" poems: quite funny, sometimes intersting and always O.K.
You should buy the soundtrack: it's beautiful and deserved the Oscar. Luís Bacalov was a revelation to me in this movie! I can't say anything about the actors reciting Neruda's poems, but the soundtrack is more than worth it just for the original music.
shareum...is Madonna on the soundtrack. I'm just asking, because I have her reading "If You Forget Me" and was told it was on the Il Postino soundtrack. Sorry for sounding so ignorant.
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Compared against Braveheart and Apollo 13?
shareYes, I'd say it's better than the score for Apollo 13. I think we all know James Horner deserved the Oscar, but Braveheart got all the major Oscars and wasn't even that good. Il Postino is a beautiful movie and only got one Oscar, I don't care if it deserved it or not.
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The equalness of oscars does not matter, at the Academy they don't think "oh gez, better give the oscar to this film, because Bravheart got too many". Look at LOTR: ROTK, it won 13 oscars!.
This oscar for this score was "Let's-give-an-oscar-to-support-minorities-and-not-for-his-musical-values". Only 1 or 2 themes, expanded ad infinitum. I'm not saying the score is terrible, it's just on his own, the score is strong enough to win the Oscar. It was helped by it written by an Italian, and James Horner's double oscar nominations.
There were more than 3 different themes running in Il Postino. Repetition, anyway, is a valid way of creating music. Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Thomas Newman and Alexander Desplat, for instance, constantly repeat themes in their scores, and sometimes even borrow leitmotifs from one score to another.
And the same argument can be made about Braveheart: everyone goes on about this score, but ask most people and they'll only remember the one from the Freedom! speech, which is also heavily repeated in the score.
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OK first of all get some facts straight before you post. No movie has ever won more than 11 oscar (Ben hur, Titanic and LOTR: ROTK). The composer of il postino score is Argentinean NOT italian. And talking about being repetitive?? have you hear Braveheart and Titanic albums by Horner?? I own both, Let me tell you is like listening to the same 3 songs troughout 15 Tracks.
Il postino deserved the Oscar over Braveheart as far as original music is concerned. Here have a listen and then tell me about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqUY4fqSm8
Repetitive-ness works to a certain extent. But when there's nothing less in the music besides the theme, that's when repetition turns bad. In Titanic, you have a wrath of themes, but two key themes, the Titanic theme and the love theme. But also, there's lots of underscore (non-theme) music, such as the action music with the Titanic sinking, or the battle music in Braveheart. There's more variance between themes and underscore in Titanic and Braveheart than in Il Postino (Il Postino is still nice to listen to though).
By the way, don't refer to film music cues/pieces of music as songs. Songs is with lyrics.
Ok, Obviously you dont own Il postino soundtrack. Well I do, I am a soundtrack freak. I love scores in movies, really.
In the same way Titanic had a different theme for the sinking, and Braveheart for the battles, Il postino had diff themes for comedy moments and some romantic scenes and even neutral scenes. The problem is not the repetitive-ness, I only brought it up cuz you did it first, and is not fair that you accuse Il postino for being repetitive when Braveheart its even more repetitive.
What you have to keep in mind when you analyse scores is not what you like the better but originality, fitness and timing. In that aspect Il postino is better than braveheart and people who know about movies like the academy members were able to see that. At moments Braveheart´s score was kinda over the top. Regardless how beautiful the music is, it has to go hand in hand with the images. Hey! Braveheart its awesome, but Il postino is better.
I used song instead of theme, my bad.
I have had this soundtrack since I was sixteen. That was twelve years ago. The best for me is "Walking Around" recited by Samuel L. Jackson. Other great ones are "Morning" by Sting, "Leaning into the Afternoons" by Wesley Snipes, and "Ode to the Sea" by Ralph Fiennes.
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