PolarisDiB
Asked 7 years ago
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Who's your favorite composer?
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A movie takes much more of it's depth from sound than most people tend to notice, and one of the main reasons why is the usually original score done by a composer. Who's your favorite one?
For that matter, what movie(s) do you think have the best score?
I love Angelo Badalamenti, who did the scores for many David Lynch movies and other pretty deep works. His scores tend to be slightly more subtler than other scores, yet have greater inpact. Most of the time they're pretty haunting, and if a score itself can hold on to you, then it's a pretty good one.
Another composer I like is Graeme Revell, who did the score for the first two Crow movies. Pretty neat mix of different instruments in them.
Movies whose scores I like a lot include The Rock and especially Requiem for a Dream.
Oh, and I hate Danny Elfman. He does okay scores but they all sound waaayyyy too similar for my tastes. As soon as one of his scores start the movie becomes self-conscious, in my opinion.
--PolarisDiB
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vargus
Answered 7 years ago
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My favorite Hollywood composer is Bernard Herrmann. Not very original of me, I know, but there it is. He's the one who wrote the scores for Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver. My favorite Herrmann score is the one for Vertigo. To my mind, Herrmann's hypnotic Tristan-like score is just as important to the effectiveness of Vertigo as the cinematography and the acting are. There are long wordless sequences in the movie where James Stewart is simply following Kim Novak around, and these could have dragged horribly, but Herrmann scores it superbly so that the suspenseful mood just builds and builds for twenty or thirty minutes.
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dispenser
Answered 7 years ago
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My favorite is W.G. Snuffy Walden, but he did the music mostly for TV shows like "thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life". Lovely, quirky, instrospective tunes.
Loved the music for "A Clockwork Orange". The synth composer is also a very interesting character himself... er, herself. ;)
Danny Elfman and John Williams are probably the most famous current composers, and I think deservedly so.
Recently, I loved the music from the movies "Lost in Translation" and "28 Days Later", but those were compilations.
I also REALLY loved the sad, electronic synth, music produced for "Requiem for a Dream". Good call.
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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Just in case you didn't have this information and find it useful:
The song that plays when the guy is walking through empty London at the beginning of the film is East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (AKA Godspeed You Black! Emperor and Godspeed! You Black Emperor. They change the location of their exclamation point with like, each new album, I think). Anyways, if you haven't checked out any of their music, DO SO. It's this brilliant postmodern deep involving music that sometimes can be very frightening and sometimes very heartening. Godspeed You! Black Emperor should do scores, they're brilliant.
--PolarisDiB
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Vigilans
Answered 7 years ago
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Ennio Morricone.
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Sumytra1
Answered 7 years ago
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I can't choose between these four: John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Rachel Portman and of course, Ennio Morricone. Williams and Doyle are both triumphant. Portman is personal. And, Morricone is soulful.
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dispenser
Answered 7 years ago
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Polaris: I sampled some of Godspeed on Amazon and I really like what I hear. I don't know if I could sit and listen to the 10+ minute songs while in the car or sitting at the computer, but in a movie it's just perfect. Eerie, lonely, epic.
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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"While in the car" is the PERFECT place to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs. I'm one that doesn't let length of a work really get in the way of how I listen to it, and as it is I love 10 min+ long tracks, they're the ones that tend to be made by composers and musicians who actually know what they're doing. Not always, though, sometimes, like in the case of The Mars Volta, it's simply that the musicians don't seem to know when to end their song...
--PolarisDiB
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Ryuukuro
Answered 7 years ago
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Danny Elfman, but my favorite movie composition is James Newton Howards score for Unbreakable. It's a very contemporary score but one which doesn't feel contemporary. It will probably still feel fresh for a long time.
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dispenser
Answered 7 years ago
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Polaris, I sometimes enjoy longer tracks, but in general they intimidate me. I did enjoy Depeche Mode's 15 minute remix of "Enjoy the Silence" though.
Ryuukuro, good call on James Newton Howard! I forgot about him. He did a great score to "Grand Canyon" and probably countless others.
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