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Topic: *Cat People* by Giorgio Moroder
Luscious Lazlo
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Giorgio Moroder's score for *Cat People* is a piece of crap. But this soundtrack gets my vote as having the all-time sexiest cover photo:
http://www.esplatter.com/catpeople.htm Meow!
posted 02-07-2000 07:41 AM PT (US) Mark Hatfield
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Lazlo;
Totally agree with you about the cover photo & disagree with you about the score. Now, I'm not saying that it's a classic or seminal work -- the list of reasons why it is neither is a long one. I just thought that the score worked well for the movie in the theater and still manages to function (for some) as a separate listening experience. In particular I thought that the juxtaposition between stately film shots & angles for visuals, and then-modern electronic scoring for the aural environment, really worked. More so than the abyssmal scoring choices for LADYHAWKE, anyway!
posted 02-07-2000 10:37 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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I rather like parts of that album -- the only Moroder score I really DO like. I originally just wanted it for David Bowie's "Putting Out Fire," but the long instrumental version that opens the picture (cue appears partway through the album -- "The Legend" I think it's called) has a lovely seductive beat to it. The movie's so dopey anyway (however beautifully shot by John Bailey), and so much a product of its time (as Paul Schrader's previous AMERICAN GIGOLO, also done with Mooder, equally was) that you can hardly complain. A more "traditional" approach to a coke-hazed atmosphere-soggy picture like that would have been utterly distracting.I'm with you on the cover, for sure, though. At that "I can stare for a THOUSAND years ... "
NP: THE SHADOW (Jerry somebody)
posted 02-07-2000 02:39 PM PT (US) Dr.Evil
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Even me, the Moroder hater love this score ( and of course the cover art), the only think this moustache man composed in his whole life.
And Bowie is Bowie, wonderful as always.NP What Dreams May Comes *****
posted 02-07-2000 04:04 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB