[Fmpro] (no subject) - the power of the score

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Kiki, one of my all-time favorites is Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold cue (THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY), heard as Tuco (Eli Wallach) runs, full-out and completely overcome by avarice, through the immense Civil War graveyard which contains buried sacks of gold. This magnificent composition is almost an apotheosis of spiritual victory - a movement fit for a symphonic Mass. The genius lies in the manner by which the music transforms the moment. In the real world this would only be a greedy bastard succumbing to his lusts, but Ennio forces us to comprehend that these three men, Tuco, Blondie (Eastwood), and Snake Eyes (Van Cleef), are paradigms, mythical constructs representing the most potent aspects of the human condition. They are not a part of the dirt and death of the real world but rather Gilgamesh-like beings, symbolic and transcendent, moving through our smaller lives and acting out their mythical agendas. None of this would be available if not for the power and magic of music. - John Bender

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From: "Sarakin, Lloyd (LAW)" <Lloyd.Sarakin at am.sony.com>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:17 PM
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> kiki, reading your description almost brought me to tears and swelling
> with emotion... nice description... i didnt see the movie yet...
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> Subtle details in scores take my breath away...for example...last week
> we watched "The Queen" (scored by Alexandre Desplat). In one scene Queen
> Elizabeth II is checking out the floral tributes to Princess Diana in
> London. As she's walking by the crown the queen notices a little girl
> holding flowers. The Queen offers to place the flowers for the girl, who
> refuses the queen. In that brief moment of tension, the third in the
> melody (which had been major up to this point) changes to a minor third.
> When the girls explains that the flowers are not for Diana and are for
> the Queen, the queen nearly has a British emotional breakdown (the
> corners of her lips move upward almost imperceptably and you see in
> actor Helen Mirren's eyes that the queen is truly moved). At that point
> the third returns to a major third and the music swells ever so
> slightly, mirroring the restraint of the British monarchy. Those breaths
> of inspiration fascinate me. 
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> Kiki
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