Can that be the music from the movie Gettysburg I hear in the TV ad for the the new movie Gangs of New York?
Sure sounds like it to me.
If it is, why?
It’s very common to use music in a trailer for a film that’s not actually used in the film itself. A trailer is often made before the score for the film is finished. The person who makes the trailer (who often has little to do with the film itself) is usually given a free hand in picking music, and it’s easy to find music from an older movie or TV show that fits the trailer.
For instance, a common LotR:TTT trailer uses music from the score of Requiem for a Dream
Also, music from Braveheart was used for the movie Cast Away. Apparently, it’s quite common.
I’m always hearing Jerry Goldsmith music in movie ads. (I’m a big Goldsmith fan, so I recognize much of his work if I only hear a few bars.) They use his theme from “Rudy” all the time.
And then there was that period about three, four years back when every single trailer used music from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. There was a time when I thought I could never get sick of that music. How wrong I was…
Thanks for letting me know this. It does seem strange that a film that will be in my local movie house in just 3 weeks is not yet finished. Talk about last minute!
A trailer that’s showing for the first time was probably finished a couple of months ago. Frequently the scoring of the movie is the last step in production, and it’s possible that it might not be done until a month from the opening of the film. The makers of the trailer often have little contact with the makers of the film itself. The makers of the trailer are given a rough cut of the film (often with alternate takes of some scenes) and simply told to make an interesting trailer. That’s why shots sometimes end up in a trailer that aren’t in the film itself.
Plus, “Gangs Of New York” apparently just went through a last-minute musical change.
Elmer Bernstein’s orchestral score was scrapped by Scorsese and reportedly replaced by a collection of traditional Irish/Celtic songs plus original songs by U2 and Peter Gabriel.
But I think any kind of soundtrack would be better than Scorsese’s original intentions…he’s been considering this project for more than 20 years, and stated at one point that he was considering using punk rock music. I’m all for trying something new, but I think a pre-Civil War era film about poverty and blood feuds with a Sex Pistols soundtrack would have been right up there with “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.
I dunno, I think it might have been interesting done that way. I kind of like movies with deliberatly anachronistic music, like Moulin Rouge or O Brother, Where Art Thou? Heck, I even got a kick out of that piece of fluff, A Knight’s Tale.
As mentioned this happens a lot. For a while, Disney owned Danny Elfman’s soul, and any preview of one of their films would use some music of his until the actual score was written, whether he was involved or not.
Poor guy doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
The film’s been finished for some time:
Beg pardon, but just how was the music from O Brother anachronistic?
Unless you are referring to how the Soggy Bottom Boys became a hit with 1 day of recording the song.
The film was set in 1937, but features “You Are My Sunshine”, which wasn’t written until 1939.
OK, that’s only slightly anal.
And Robert Johnson never recorded in a radio station, either.
Sheesh. It’s a movie, not a documentary.