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dantoris Standard Userer	Here's a topic I posted a while back when I was over on the FSM board, and I got some interesting responses. What are some of your favorite music cues that play during slow-motion shots in a movie? For me, my favorite is the cue heard in "True Lies" when Ah-nold tilts the plane, and the terrorist slides down the wing and gets hung up on the side-winder. Also, when Nicolas Cage exits the limo near the beginning of "Face/Off." So what are your favorites? By the way: has anyone else ever noticed that that same piece of music from "True Lies" is also used over the Lightstorm Entertainment logo at the beginning of the film? NP: "Spacehunter" complete score **/**
posted 02-04-2000 07:29 PM PT (US)

otten Standard Userer	My favorite is at the end of The Rock when Nick Cage comes out of the building and falls to his knees with the two green flares just before he gets blowed up. The music is simply awesome.
posted 02-04-2000 08:22 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	My favorite is in The Fury when Kirk Douglas is trying to get Amy Irving out of the school and has to shoot the men sent to kidnap her---it goes into slo-mo and the score carries the whole scene. All the slo-mo bits in Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Every Man for Himself) that are scored by this neat motif by Gabriel Yared.
posted 02-04-2000 08:49 PM PT (US)

Jeron Standard Userer	Well, I'll just go ahead and say it for both me and Justin. "A Wing and a Prayer" from Armageddon. That entire sequence was incredible - and the music scored it perfectly. Jeron [This message has been edited by Jeron (edited 04 February 2000).]
posted 02-04-2000 09:20 PM PT (US)

Brad Wills Standard Userer	The prom sequence from CARRIE.
posted 02-04-2000 09:40 PM PT (US)

Will Standard Userer	I definitely will have to say Rocket Away from The Rock (9th minute onward). Honorable mentions: Face/Off (Furniture), Armageddon (A Wing and a Prayer), and does Entrapment count (Fayeth in Faith)? And is "Pilot Over" from First Blood 2 a slow-mo scene?
posted 02-05-2000 06:27 AM PT (US)

SplbrgWlms Standard Userer	Well, since a couple of DePalma scenes have already been mentioned, I would have to say a great slow motion piece is the "Machine Gun Lullaby" sequence from THE UNTOUCHABLES. NP: A View To A Kill(John Barry) **/***
posted 02-05-2000 06:58 AM PT (US)

Dr.Evil unregistered	I'll stay with The Fury too. Magical and impressive score!
posted 02-05-2000 08:48 AM PT (US)

spango Standard Userer	of course THE FURY (death on the carousel) SOMMERSBY DOLORES CLAIBORNE JENSEITS DER STILLE (BEYOND SILENCE?) one of the few great german scores!
posted 02-06-2000 09:32 AM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	Amy Irving's walk to the graveyard at the end of Carrie. Which is actually a scene that runs backwards. Amy was filmed walking backwards. Then the scene was inserted in reverse-motion. Consequently, it shows Amy walking forwards. But it also shows cars moving backwards and birds flying backwards.
posted 02-06-2000 10:00 AM PT (US)

Rang Standard Userer	The intentionally hillarious scene towards the end of DEAD AGAIN where Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Emma Thompson are fighting it out till the bloody end. The choir chimes in as soon as the slow-motion photography begins - just great!
posted 02-06-2000 10:53 AM PT (US)

Dawk Standard Userer	I don't know if this counts, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Bullet Time sequences from The Matrix.. what impressed me about those where Don Davis' music reacted to time moving very slow and fast at the same time.. making the effect twice as cool. I loved the way he did that, and if it counts, I will officially put those down as my favorite slow-motion cues.
posted 02-06-2000 11:22 AM PT (US)

Alwin Standard Userer	Also if I'm not mistaken, there were many parts in Face/Off that were in slow-mo. The church shootout, and the shootout in the loft as well. Those are also some of my favourites, in addition to the Wing and a Prayer sequence towards the end of Armageddon. NP: Armageddon
posted 02-06-2000 04:23 PM PT (US)

dantoris Standard Userer	Just watched FACE/OFF for the first time in a few months, and I realized just how many slow-mo scenes there are. By the way: which scene in ARMAGEDDON is the "Wing and A Prayer" sequence? Guess I can't remembed since I hated the movie and nearly everything about it so much.
posted 02-06-2000 04:28 PM PT (US)

Justin Standard Userer	The Wing and A Prayer sequence we are referring to is when Harry presses the button and there are many slow-motion shots during the sequence. Personally, they are beautiful to me.
posted 02-06-2000 09:00 PM PT (US)

DjC Standard Userer	Too bad Armageddon was a piece of excrement though... OK music, but a horrible movie...:}
posted 02-06-2000 09:57 PM PT (US)

Cole Standard Userer	ok, see if you can help me out. I dont remember the name of the movie but it starred Jeff Bridges (the vanishing and the big lebowski) as the survivor of an airplane crash. at the end of the movie, he has some sort of seizure/flashback and the audience gets to see the airplane crash for about five to ten minutes during which we hear nothing but the opening of Henryck Gorecki's Symphony #3 "The Symphony of Sorrowful songs." If anyone can back me up here, b/c I apparently dont have all the info on this movie, that would be great. It really is a wonderfull moment. I was spelloud when I saw it. NP The Horse Whisperer
posted 02-06-2000 10:31 PM PT (US)

Mark Hatfield Standard Userer	Cole; Your movie is FEARLESS (also with Isabella Rossolini & Rosie Perez). You have good taste, sir -- when we the audience finally see everything that the man lived through, it is easy to understand the source & strength of his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. A great sequence that is as horrifying as anything I ever saw in a more straightforward Horror film. NP: THE NATURAL 5/5*
posted 02-07-2000 12:32 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Standard Userer	The bit from Bad Boys is a slow mo cue I like. I forget the track title off the Promo CD, but it accompanies the scene where you got old Will running down the street. You know, the cue used in loads of trailers. I too like "Wing and a Prayer" from Armageddon. Another GREAT one from the same movie is the "Astronauts" cue! Dan (UK) NP: Far & Away (**/***) [This message has been edited by Dan Brecher (edited 07 February 2000).]
posted 02-07-2000 05:23 AM PT (US)

Will Standard Userer	Speaking of Face/Off, I think it's safe to say that Mission: Impossible 2 will have lots of slow-mo scenes (John Woo's trademark). Let's hope Hans Zimmer will deliver the best action score for this year!
posted 02-07-2000 07:11 AM PT (US)

Thor Standard Userer	I thought Jim Carrey's slo-mo mock in ACE VENTURA was hilarious (the scene where he is trying to get admitted into an asylum, and simulates a football catch in slo-mo and reverse).
posted 02-07-2000 09:06 AM PT (US)

Audacity Standard Userer	I must agree with Dan, the slow motion scenes in Bad Boys were scored perfectly. I also love Travolta's theme in Broken Arrow, when he is in the locker room and he is zipping up his cover-alls and later when he is walking toward the camera in the desert. I don't think they were slow motion but the scenes were definitely slow paced and that theme is awesome. Audacity NP Dinosaur trailer music (JNH)***** thanks to Jeron and Dan
posted 02-07-2000 09:39 AM PT (US)

Cole Standard Userer	thank you Mark, Fearless I am usually very wary of slow motion sequences - they seem too pretentious. but the climax of this film is a moment of incredible drama. you wont believe it. also, the peice used has got to be the best composition of the 20th century (behind Barbaer's Adagio of course) NP The Horse Whisperer
posted 02-07-2000 04:37 PM PT (US)

robin4 Standard Userer	I liked the shootout in the lobby in the Matrix. One of the best cinematic scenes in history!
posted 02-07-2000 07:36 PM PT (US)

Scott Standard Userer	ET and Me. Doesn't get any better than that. Scott
posted 02-07-2000 07:50 PM PT (US)

Matt Standard Userer	robin4, im gonna have to back you up on that one Cole: if mishandled slo-mo sucks(like in American History X), but in teh hands of great directors like Cameron, Woo, and the Wachowskis, it can really improve a movie. [This message has been edited by Matt (edited 07 February 2000).]
posted 02-07-2000 08:22 PM PT (US)

Mark Hatfield Standard Userer	I've always thought that Michael Mann had a nice touch with slow-mo in his movies. I am sort of up in the air as to the artistic merits of some of his stuff -- he can be SO self-aware & stylish for its own sake -- but almost all of his movies feature a slow-mo set piece or two. From THE KEEP (which I'm sure that none of you have seen, as there were only about 8 other paying customers besides myself on this continent): -- a wounded Glaeken struggles to climb the rock wall of the gorge he has fallen into, while the misguided professor carries the object that traps the evil entity within the Keep towards the surface (which would release the evil into the world again). While Glaeken heals himself with the magical properties of his weapon, the professor strides through the Keep....and as he passes the "crosses" embedded into the walls, each lights up with a ghostly green glow. All underscored nicely by Tangerine Dream. The movie itself is fractured, truncated, and almost entirely images over story development. I generally cannot stand flicks like this, and this one is so challenged from a story standpoint as to be incomprehensible without having read the book that it was adapted from. Still, the images WERE good..... I'd love to see someone take another crack at it someday. Call this one a guilty pleasure (or me a doof for still remembering it!). Neato score, if you can handle Tangerine Dream. NP: THE FOG 5/5*
posted 02-08-2000 01:21 AM PT (US)

KyleS Standard Userer	The Empire Strikes Back Luke fights Vader inside the magic tree.
posted 02-09-2000 04:13 PM PT (US)

Leopoldskron unregistered	Since the prom sequence in "Carrie" has already been mentioned, and I agree that it is the best slow-mo/scored moment on film - I selected my second favorite: Nancy Allen in the shower, at the end of "Dressed to Kill". It is scary and beautifully directed, filmed and scored.
posted 02-09-2000 04:41 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things is a brilliant zombie movie. It has a stop-&-start opening credits sequence. (Like in The Wild Bunch.) There's an eerily beautiful shot of two characters who hoist the unconscious gravekeeper over a large cruciform gravestone. It's a slo-mo shot of the gravekeeper's body slumping over the gravestone. Then they freeze-framed it and flashed a credit. It's a breathtaking image.
posted 02-09-2000 05:15 PM PT (US)

Kris Standard Userer	I want to say something about one scene in THE MATRIX, more specifically the slow-motion shoot-out inside the building where Morpheus is captured. The scene was awesome. Perfect editing, camera, stunts, etc. Only,... well, you know. The music. I'm not a fan of heavy metal music, but it was okay in the movie. On the other hand, if they'd used the music from Enigma (used in the trailer), they would've had one of the best slow-motion scenes ever. Dantoris: I can't really recall the music in the scene from Face/Off you mentioned, but I think it's one of the coolest slow-motion shots ever. One of my favorite action movies. NP: My Favorite Martian (Debney) **/***
posted 02-10-2000 09:01 AM PT (US)

Dave Standard Userer	My favorite would be in Terminator 2 when a beat up Arnie at the end of the movie rides up the conveyor belt and fires his last explosive round into the T-1000. Very dramatic and it gave Arnold another classic line. dave
posted 02-10-2000 09:08 AM PT (US)

Matt Standard Userer	Kris, Enigma music worked great in the trailer, but it would not have worked for the scene. It's a different type of music, requires different editing, sound, everything. Hell, it would be a different type of scene....Eyes of Truth is the kind of music, that if it could be fit into the scene, it would have to be during a scene of great importance to the movie, not just a really cool scene where they begin to go to save a character. Oh, and its TECHNO, not heavy metal...HUGE difference. -Matt
posted 02-10-2000 01:56 PM PT (US)

Sean Bires Standard Userer	As mentioned before, the various slow-motion scenes in The Matrix are absolute masterpieces of cinematography and editing (Lobby shootout, "Bullet Time", Neo w/ helecoptor minigun shooting Agents, etc) Also, the scene where Motoko rips her robotic body apart in "Ghost in the Shell" somehow manages to be violently shocking and beautiful. NP: End of Evangelion (another Japanese-animated film)
posted 02-10-2000 06:46 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	That strange slow-motion procession through the boy's dormitory in Jean Vigo's Zero For Conduct (1933) wonderfully captured with music by Maurice Jaubert.
posted 02-11-2000 03:10 AM PT (US)

Tom Scofield Non-Standard Userer	How about the slo-mo Satan's coach ride from Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY, underscored by Les Baxter's incredible, Herrmannesque "Ride With The Devil" cue? Hey, Luscious, I remember that shot from CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS! Bob Clark's DEAD OF NIGHT/DEATHDREAM also has some amazing imagery as well, and a good Carl Zitterer score. [This message has been edited by Tom Scofield (edited 13 February 2000).]
posted 02-13-2000 02:13 AM PT (US)

Cole Standard Userer	Matt If you want to get technical (and it seems like you did) the propellerheads are "Drum & Bass." Once you get into "techno" music, you find that there are different genres (like: Drum & bass, break beat, house, trip-hop, trance, jungle) and that no one calls it techno anymore. You can use "Drum & Bass" as a more all inclusive and pollitically correct term to refer to music with "beats" that you would hear at "parties" (not raves) This way if you are ever talking to those of us who are into the scene we wont consider you to be a "candyraver" I hope you dont take any offense, I just like for my friends at moviemusic to be informed - so they can represent film scores all around the world.
posted 02-13-2000 04:06 AM PT (US)

Ted Standard Userer	My favorite has to be from GLORY: An Epitaph to War. It's probably one of my favorite movies scenes of all time, and Horner's outstanding score helped it make it better.
posted 02-13-2000 04:08 PM PT (US)

Audacity Standard Userer	Cole, Thanks for the info, but how would knowing about raves and Drum and Bass music help us be more informed about film music? Audacity
posted 02-14-2000 08:18 AM PT (US)

odinatheforestcat Standard Userer	Those We Don't Speak Of: From James Newton Howard's score to THE VILLAGE. Where the scary music builds and builds, but then it stops and the arpegiating violin and slow string section score the slowmotion shot of Ivy and Lucius going into the basement. Got chills going up my back.
posted 04-15-2005 03:08 PM PT (US)

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