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Aug 4 06 7:38 PM
Quote:I'm trying to understand what you are saying. Are you saying that Barry should repeat the James Bond theme more frequently? That is the only theme that David Arnold pays homage to in TWINE of which I'm aware.
Quote:I hear the main title, the theme song played frequently in his scores.
Quote:A theme score repeats the theme in different arrangements throughout a film. One is an action cue, one a romantic cue, etc.
Quote:Or, are you lamenting Barry's lack of leit motifs? Unlike the European school of film scoring that Hollywood favored for decades, Barry generally didn't employ this style wherein each character and, sometimes, individual buildings, objects, locations, sets get their own theme. He wrote individual cues for various sequences, often incorporating the main theme, but generally didn't re-use these themes as a means of identifying a character, place, etc. The early Bonds are full of different themes.
Quote:A few years back I listened to all the Barry soundtracks in my collection and decided that, as a whole, his best work was done in the Bond films.
Quote:ZULU is mostly a theme score featuring the one theme used over and over. If you love that theme, like I do, then it's just dandy. If you don't, then you're in for a disappointment. Also, there isn't much music in ZULU despite its length and he certainly doesn't follow the leit motif technique, although he could have done so easily given the number of characters, the opposing forces, the locations, etc.
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