Am I the only who thinks this score really MAKES the movie! I mean, I love the film, think it is the best modern western along with "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada", but without the score it wouldn't have been nearly as phenomenal... It's absolutely brilliant!!
Oh, and the cinematography is "dead on", too!!
"I'm afraid that my powers are not for sale, and by that I mean they absolutely are for sale!"
everything about this film pops. it's a living breathing movie that doesn't get shoehorned into audience expectation. it breaks molds. it wounds egos. it even offends many women i know.
i cannot stress enough just how underrated this film is.
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the score for this movie sounds so familiar.
was it used in anything else? specifically the music playing around the 1 hour and 18 minute mark.
I swear I have heard it before or something just like it
can anyone tell me where?
never mind.
it was shawshank redemption
it reminds me of that one
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The score is very simple and there's definately something about it that sounds familiar. But I also really like it as well, it has some great songs on it, two songs that spring to mind are the song that plays when they load the money into the car and the song that plays over the opening credits with the drums.
sharethe music was awesome, especially the crescendo when they are loading up the money.
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Joe Kraemer did a highly commendable job. I couldn't go into great depth analyzing/critiquing the music, but it always seems to crescendo, getting louder, bolder, packing more of a punch... The scene where Caan drives away in the pickup at night with the money, "Karma and Justice" is an excellent example of what I mean. A similar track plays when Phillipe gets shot at the end, "The Way of the Gun."
Each works perfectly, and the score as a whole is highly reminiscent Morricone's work, giving the film a sort of Spaghetti Western feel.
He came home and fell down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.