Most people bring up the cinematography of this film which is indeed great.
However after watching it for the first time, my most memorable element I took away afterwards was the awesome score.
I'm surprised more people havent brought this up. The beautiful and haunting piano and strings during the long driving scenes ... the tense music building up to any fights or ambushes.
Great stuff all around.
Agreed, it's amazing.
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Yes, it's a beautiful score.
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Ya, the music is great. Can't argue with that dude. The foreshadowing music is just about perfect.
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For an entire summer it was the music my girls went to bed with every nite- I love it!
shareAs I sit here watching this movie many years after it's release I'm struck by the breathtaking beauty of the soundtrack and immediately wonder why no one has mentioned it
Glad to see I'm not alone. Just so moving and evocotive of the time in history and the mood that needed to be set.
Absolutely agree. The soundtrack is multidimensional, but the melody at the end is beautifully haunting and unforgettable. I need to look up what score actually won that year, but Newmann was robbed regardless of who won.
shareIts been talked about---a lot, probably older post that have been erased. I've been playing it for 10 years, so there! Awesome soundtrack; still can't understand how Thomas Newman didn't get an Oscar.
Couldn't agree with you more. In general I think Thomas Newman is one of the most under-appreciated scorers in the world. Fair play he's been nominated for best original score by the Academy 10 times, but how many wins does he have under his belt? None! Always outbeaten by others, who don't get me wrong are good,but Newman creates that extra level for me, so deep, with so much meaning. I've got a collection of about 15 of his soundtracks, from Shawshank, Perdition, American Beauty, A Series of Unfortunate Events, to The Green Mile. All masterpieces in their own respect, I will often spend a whole day with his music either on in the background, or can just sit, and listen for hours. Some may say it's just music, but I have listened to his music through the highs of life, and through the very lows, and it's fantastic the emotion it draws out. I hope eventually, he will get that Oscar that he so truly deserves, and will become a household name. But I guess for now, he can just be our little secret, let everyone be ignorant thinking Shore, Zimmer and Williams provide the greatest scoring since sliced bread ;)
shareI am just astonished that people could like this kind of sound track: obtrusive, non-stopping, yet, unoriginal, banal, pseudo-epic/dramatic; a score so similar to countless other hollywood movies' scores! In fact, I couldn't watch this film until the end because I could not stand its so called music - a computer generated cliche of a noise which sometimes completely covered the voices of the actors. It's really disturbing that 80 years after the invention of the talking pictures the film industry continue to use the music scores as if they were composed for silent films. They make the movies feel like a (bad) opera. And one of the biggest problems with the movie sound tracks like that of Road to Perdition is that they are 'composed' by the computer, therefore, they are utterly undescript,bland and cheesy.If that Thomas Newman man wants so much that his music be constanly heard, then he should compose symphonies, not movie scores.
shareI just bought the blu ray. I think the score succeeds in the main theme and that is about it. While I didn't find it as bad as ^ that guy, it was terribly mediocre at parts, and downright terrible during the immediate aftermath of the murder of Michael's family. I thought I was watching a horror film for those few minutes.
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