Great Movie Music

[Spectre]

I can't listen to this without thinking of the Acropolis in Athens...one of the noblest creations of movie music:

[Spectre]

What account of great movie music can leave out 'Gladiator', with so much of it composed by Lisa Gerrard of 'Dead Can Dance', one of my favorite Goth bands?

[Spectre]

Mark Knopfler's soundtrack to that absolutely wonderful movie 'Local Hero' is one of the best I've ever heard:

[The Sage of Main Street]

Sage, do you recommend reading the book?

Definitely not. The author goes out of his way to make everything nasty and depressing, thinking that would be considered "meaningful" by the decadent literary snobs.

[Max Rockatansky]

The movie "A Clockwork Orange" was the impetus for turning me on to Beethoven.

[Perianne]

It's so beautiful it makes me cry.

Patricia Janeckova covers the song from Once Upon a Time in the West (original by Italian singer Edda Dell'Orso)

[Standing Wolf]

Where does the name "blade runner" come from? I vaguely remember that it might mean that the machine Harrison Ford used to detect robots was called a "blade." Or it may have been that his job was so dangerous it was like running on a razor blade.

Second, it was set in 2019, thirty-seven years from when the picture was made. Like all of these wishful-thinking scifi deceptions, its prediction about the future was totally inaccurate.

Third, the sick short story by Philip K. Dick that this movie came from depressingly wallowed in dreary pessimism because that's what establishes a literary reputation in this sick age. Sean Young's wonderful and sensitive character was a nasty sicko in the original story.

A sci-fi writer named Alan E. Nourse wrote a novel about a futuristic society where black market medical supplies are smuggled by "bladerunners" - as in scalpels and such. William S. Burroughs wrote a screenplay based on the book, but the movie was never made.

In the course of filming, director Ridley Scott heard the name somewhere and thought it sounded really "cool", so Nourse and Burroughs were both paid nominal amounts for the rights to use it and that's why you see both of them "thanked" in Blade Runner's end credits.

[Standing Wolf]

[The Booman]

[Peter1469]

Conan the Barbarian had a great music track.