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Music in Opening Scene

posted 16 years ago by IMDBmurphy
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I'd really like to know who composed the terrific, spherical score in the opening sequence of this movie, which is repeated several times, like in the park scene when Alex (WHM) saves Josh (JR).

According to the list it should be Michel Rubini, but I'm not really sure since I couldn't find his tracks ("HSML Cha Cha Cha #1" and "HSML Bossa Nova Source #1") anywhere else.

This theme or the themes (can't remember if there was only one or several sounding alike) remembered me of the opening music in Lost and Delirious (2001), which I'm looking for as well – it didn't sound like it was part of the regular original soundtrack, just as in this case.

[–] IMDBmurphy 16 years ago

Meanwhile I found out that the music is actually written and performed by Brian Tyler himself. Until now, I only could get hold of track 1 and 10 to 16 of the soundtrack, which apparently has never been released officially.

The title I am looking for is track #2 "Main Titles" or "Elegy", depending on the source ... can anyone provide me with that track?

[–] devonspencer 13 years ago

You can hear 4 clips of the score including the opening scene which is called "panic" here: http://www.briantyler.com/audio.html

[–] IMDBmurphy 13 years ago

"Panic" ist track #01 which I already had.
The track I was asking for was #02 ("Main Titles"), which is actually the opening scene.
Meanwhile the only tracks I'm still missing are #07, #08, #09 and #18, #19, #20, #21, #22.

But thanks for your helpfulness!

[–] doubl3 8 years ago

The acting and pacing was great. it just "felt" nice. VERY few movies feel that way to me. Even ones I rate highly have tons of boring parts with bad pacing. Seems like I liked the pacing of Requiem For a Dream and Anything Else and Closer also, but most movies get boring. Barely anything even happened in Anything Else, yet I liked it due to the feel.

[–] IMDBmurphy 8 years ago

IKR? I'm still eagerly waiting for something like "Panic" to happen again.

Also and alas, music has changed back to classical scores a lot since then.
Even Brian Tyler himself didn't have a stroke of genius like that again, but
dropped back to generic stuff we regrettably hear all day in today's theaters.

This reminds be of James Horner, composing exceptional scores in the '80s:

Wolfen (1981)
Brainstorm (1983)
Gorky Park (1983)
Commando (1985)
Aliens (1986) (musical citations of earlier works like those listed above)

Just to name a few – check them out on YouTube for pure awesomeness!

Totally unique, impelling and intriguing sound that I'm awfully missing.
As he then dropped back to solely classical tunes as well, which is a shame.

"They don't make movie scores like that anymore ..."
... and I don't get the reason for that in the least.

We live in a modern world, why do scores have to be from past centuries!?