# Favorite movie score of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124 "2010-06-22T14:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/21 "2010-06-22T15:33:22Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I must have heard that he contributed to the soundtrack or something. He’s listed in the credits, and there’s a whole thing about him in the special features. WRT West Side Story, South Pacific, and The Lion King, do musicals really count? Except for some incidental music, those scores were not specifically written for film format, they were written for the stage. They were later adapted to film. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/22 "2010-06-22T15:41:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > He’s listed in the credits, and there’s a whole thing about him in the special features. > > WRT West Side Story, South Pacific, and The Lion King, do musicals really count? Except for some incidental music, those scores were not specifically written for film format, they were written for the stage. They were later adapted to film. Yeah, I am researching like a motherfuck, now, and I see that a lot of stuff that I credited him for, I was just way off. I thought I knew his style, but I guess a Wu Tang master has many styles, and I don’t know him as well as I thought. For instance, I would have sworn that the battle scene between O-Ren and the Bride in the garden…when O-Ren removes her sandals and pushes them back, and that clappy, hot beat kicks in! Wooo, I love that. Thought that was Rza for sure. Turns out, it is by Santa Esmeralda, and is called “Don’t Let Me be Misunderstood”. So, the dope is always teaching me something. Actually, I’m having dejavu about this one. Someone may have actually explained this to me before. I will try to remember this time though. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/23 "2010-06-22T15:42:43Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > He’s listed in the credits, and there’s a whole thing about him in the special features. What little original music is from him, but he and Tarantino primarily pulled from existing music libraries (both popular and obscure) for the vast majority of the aural soundscape you hear in both installments. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/24 "2010-06-22T15:43:37Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Someone may have actually explained this to me before. I will try to remember this time though. Just a guess, but it could have been the time that I started this exact same thread, and learned the exact same thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/25 "2010-06-22T15:44:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > WRT West Side Story, South Pacific, and The Lion King, do musicals really count? Except for some incidental music, those scores were not specifically written for film format, they were written for the stage. They were later adapted to film. I’d agree with you on the first two, but all the music for _King_ was actually written for the film (Hans Zimmer wrote the film score, E.John & T.Rice the song score) and later adapted into a stage musical. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/26 "2010-06-22T15:47:17Z")
Star Trek: First Contact ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/27 "2010-06-22T15:58:38Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I’d agree with you on the first two, but all the music for _King_ was actually written for the film (Hans Zimmer wrote the film score, E.John & T.Rice the song score) and later adapted into a stage musical. Oh yeah, that’s right. Having never seen either, I’m not that familiar with it. I’d still kind of argue that a straight-to-film musical is not the same as an original score. The music plays an entirely different role. That’s just IMHO, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/28 "2010-06-22T15:59:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Just a guess, but it could have been the time that I started this exact same thread, and learned the exact same thing. 😉 Yep. I just checked. It was a [thread you started](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=524360&highlight=kill+score+original). Acetylene told me the name of the song I was looking for, and Archive Guy provided video. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/29 "2010-06-22T16:00:56Z")
The score for Titanic by James Horner. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/30 "2010-06-22T16:06:06Z")
_A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, with the Mendelssohn so mesmerizingly adapted by Korngold. _The Adventures of Robin Hood_ – Korngold again. _Silverado_, Broughton. _The Natural_, Newman. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/31 "2010-06-22T16:13:19Z")
Body Heat Blade Runner Koyaanisqatsi Schindler’s List ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/32 "2010-06-22T16:22:56Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Koyaanisqatsi Right on! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/33 "2010-06-22T16:39:35Z")
[Peter Gabriel’s “Passion”](http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Music-Last-Temptation-Christ/dp/B000000OR5). His score for \*\*The Last Temptation of Christ \*\*wasn’t just a brilliant musical backdrop for the movie–it gave a huge boost to the mainstream popularity of world music. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/34 "2010-06-22T16:40:37Z")
**Witness** - the barn raising scene in particular. Nice work by Maurice Jarre. ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/35 "2010-06-22T17:07:42Z")
**[Pirates Of The Caribbean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoFymy3IMU&NR=1)**,one of the few movies that left me wanting to buy the soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/36 "2010-06-22T17:28:32Z")
\*\*Local Hero. \*\* Absolutely beautiful Knopfleresque\* acoustic guitar, interspersed with haunting synth-work (also by Knopfler, I think) that complements it, acting as interludes. One of the few soundtracks, or instrumental albums I own (rock ‘n’ roll’s all about the lyrics, man). I’ve heard that Mark Knopfler used to, as they were tearing down the stage after Dire Straits concerts, wander out, sit on a case, and play the theme, or maybe it was the more pared-down version: “Wild Theme” (my favorite acoustic piece ever). Oh, and the movie’s even better. Worth seeing if you haven’t. Well, if you enjoy beauty and truth and innocence and character and life itself. \*_well, if it ain’t a word, it are now. Ceptin’ it be hard to pro-nownce._ ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/37 "2010-06-22T17:38:03Z")
I’ve had \*\*Local Hero \*\*on VHS, one of my all time favorites. I came in to post[The Last of the Mohicans](http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mohicans-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B0000042MY/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b) soundtrack. I love the cinematography in this movie too. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/38 "2010-06-22T17:49:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > At the risk of sounding incredibly pretentious: > > **Lieutenant Kijé**. 😃 Anyway…my picks? _1492: Conquest of Paradise_ (Vangelis) _Batman_ (Danny Elfman) _The 13th Warrior_ (Jerry Goldsmith) _Return to Oz_ (David Shire) _The Crow_ (Graeme Revell) _Fellowship of the Rings/Return of the King_ (Howard Shore) _The Black Hole_ (John Barry) _Godzilla 1985_ (Reijiro Koroku) I seem to tend towards either “awesomely bombastic” or “horribly moody.” Occasionally “bombastically moody.” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/39 "2010-06-22T18:14:17Z")
**Out of Sight** ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/40 "2010-06-23T17:16:36Z")
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