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Why have a composer create a beautiful, original score for your film if



...you're going to randomly reuse one of his most famous pieces from a score he did for another film three or four years earlier? Tiersen created themes for this film ("Summer '78", "From Prison to Hospital") that were just as memorable, if not more than, his pieces for Amelie. Why take away from your own film as a whole and the composer's originality by recycling a theme done for an unrelated film?


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If it wasn't Yann Tiersen himself who made that decision, he must have at least agreed to it. Besides, my guess is that the majority of movie watchers probably never noticed. And for the others, it remains a memorable piece even if reused.

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can you explain to me please what you fellas are talking about? i have not seen amelie in some time, but i have seen good bye lenin recently. is sidiropoulos saying that “summer '78" and ”from prison to hospital" are original songs in good bye lenin but that there are also songs featured in good bye lenin that had already been used in amelie?

fyi, i am asking you what sidiropoulos said as opposed to asking sidiropoulos because he or she no longer appears to be active on this group and you seem to understand. thank you sir

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Wikipedia has this to say about it:

"[O]ne of the songs on Amélie, 'Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi', was also used on Good bye, Lenin! during the scene of the family's first East-West Berlin outing, although it does not appear on the soundtrack album."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye_Lenin!_%28soundtrack%29

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i see - thank you very much sir

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