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Music score rip-off

posted 9 years ago by denever17
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Watching this for the first time ... the music during the opening credits borrows very, very liberally from the great score by David Shire for the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." I'll stay with it, but blatant plagiarism isn't a great start for any film.

[–] rtw416 9 years ago

That is a great film and score...the heavy deep horns along with bass that follow the action put you on the edge of your seat....I guess they were trying to emulate "French Connection" and "T.o.P.1,2,3"-great 70's flicks