Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: jazz & hard-boiled
Lesserkind@aol.com
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:13:06 -0500 (EST)
Speaking of television PI shows and their soundtracks, how
about
movies?
Movie music today has deteriorated, (much like actual movies)
and now eve=
ry
two-bit action thrill pack roller coaster high sky "mystery"
has some eit=
her
bloody slithering heart beat music filled with frills and wave
of strings
undulating around the backround that are not needed, or a
national anthym=
of
Russia tied in with the clich=E9 Hanz Zimmer score of Crimson
Tide. Where=
has
the old score of the fifties and forties and thirties and even
sixties go=
ne?=20
There has been really only one movie, made in the seventies,
that I thoug=
ht
recreated the old music of that golden era. And the winner
is............=
...
CHINATOWN
My opinion is that Chinatown is really the last score that
captures the
thirties and forties and squeezes in a feeling of nostalgia. If
anybody
thinks that any other recent or nearly recent (by about twenty
years) sco=
re
has been written after Chinatown, please respond.
Nicholas =20
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