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Post by ipaqowner on Jul 18, 2010 13:39:18 GMT -8
I caught this movie on TV recently and enjoyed it very much and the score by Angelo Milli. It was good to see Will Smith in a "straight" role for a change and I fell in love with Rosario Dawson again having seen her previously in "25th Hour" with Edward Norton. Anyway, during the movie a very Thomas Newman styled 4 note piano motif played slightly off kilter regularly crops up...the one scene where I do remember it being played is near the end as Emily (Rosario Dawson) approaches Ezra (Woody Harrelson) as he mingles with the parents after the schoolkids choir recital. The thing is...I previewed all 17 tracks on Amazon and I don't hear this theme anywhere. I had never seen the movie before or heard it's score but the 1st time I heard this particular theme in the movie...I knew I'd heard it somewhere before, it was so familiar and I couldn't place where I'd heard it...I still can't...and then I looked up Jon's review of the soundtrack where during part of it he wrote...
"the sensational, cathartic “Requiem” and the haunting, angelic “Surgery” (although the former does contain an unexpected inclusion of the James Horner’s dreaded ‘four note motif’)"
So can someone put me out of my misery please? Is the theme (I'm hearing right now in my head) this "four note motif" Jon refers to? If it is...which James Horner score is it? If it isn't, can anyone tell me it's title and if it is included in the movie soundtrack? Does anyone know what I'm on about ;D Thanks, John.
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Post by franz_conrad on Jul 19, 2010 17:52:12 GMT -8
The theme you refer to is 'Crisis' from Ennio Morricone's LEGEND OF 1900.
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Post by ipaqowner on Jul 20, 2010 11:11:57 GMT -8
It is indeed Thank you very much my friend. I knew I'd heard it somewhere, and I have it in my iTunes and it's in my CD collection...makes you wonder what other unknown gems are hidden away in these discs we have stored and play once or twice and then forget about. Guess Jon was wrong about that 4 note motif to ;D
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Post by christopher on Jul 22, 2010 5:20:27 GMT -8
Probably not. From the review it sounds like there is one appearance of Horner's "danger" motif. It's probably a different four notes than the ones you were thinking of. Horner's 4 note motif is three chromatic ascensions and then one descension. If you have access to a piano, go play C, C#, D, C#. Play the notes quickly and hold the fourth, and there's your Horner motif. You asked which Horner score it's in....might be easier to tell you which one's don't have it. I think I remember it right at the beginning of Avatar. I'm pretty sure I remember it from Willow. It's played by a trumpet a bunch of times in the big long cue at the end of Mask of Zorro. There are many more examples.
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Post by lillie on Aug 15, 2013 22:57:44 GMT -8
I am so happy I found this forum before I went crazy... I was watching seven pounds, and the scene where will smith runs out of the hospital in the rain came on and I heard the music and said "that sounds like Avatar or something, right?" My husband just gave me a blank stare. then I heard it again, those four notes, and said "yeah, it sounds like some sort of panic scene in Avatar." of course, what am I going to google for that? "some song in seven pounds sounds like some song in avatar..." well somehow that worked and led me to you, where I read about James Horner, and boom there's my answer, as he composed music for Avatar. whew. I can sleep.
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