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DANIEL2
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Chase&August.At the risk of repeating myself, allow me to quote my final words at the post in question.
"....At least THE PATRIOT looks like being a particularly entertaining movie (like BRAVEHEART was)……..and that’s all that really matters...."
posted 04-10-2000 11:33 AM PT (US) dantoris
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Oops. Wrong thread.[This message has been edited by dantoris (edited 10 April 2000).]
posted 04-10-2000 11:36 AM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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I spent a few days thinking about this topic before replying. I wanted to put together a top 10 list of composers and just couldn't do it. It's a list of 12 and any time I tried to reduce it by taking someone's name off, it just didn't feel right. There is no order except for the top two who dominate over everyone IMHO.BERNARD HERRMANN
MIKLOS ROZSA
Malcolm Arnold
John Barry
Georges Delerue
Maurice Jarre
Ennio Morricone
Elmer Bernstein
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerome Moross
Franz Waxman
Dimitri Tiomkin
I realize I don't have some major names here (Williams, Newman, Korngold, etc.), but everyone else not on this list of 12 just doesn't do it for me the way these 12 composers do. There are composers like Mayuzumi (Tokyo Olympiad) and Duhamel (Pierrot Le Fou) that have composed scores to rival the best of the composers above, but they are one-shot deals that were never repeated and so their total output doesn't compare.
NP: Rhapsody of Steel (Dimitri Tiomkin)
posted 04-10-2000 09:38 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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(this no longer makes sense, hence I erase it. Love your additions to the older bits, Mr. 2 -- are you really a dustman? As I've suggested before, you ought to teach.)[This message has been edited by H Rocco (edited 11 April 2000).]
posted 04-11-2000 02:32 AM PT (US) Nicolai P. Zwar
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Oh....er...sorry... This had nothing to do with anything in this thread. I just had this vision of gigantic five hour marathon multi media presentations with sound, java applets and active-X components by Daniel2, explaining over and over and over and over again why Jerry Goldsmith is simply no match for such truly greats as... well, it's an old story...this was a flashback... you had to be there... in the old days... it won't happen again... I hope... Daniel2 has grown into a much more intriguing poster since he's here. Funny profile, too!
Anyway, as far as favorite composers go... there are a lot. I just reapeat a recent rec.music.movies posting of mine.Posted by Nicolai P. Zwar in rec.music.movies on March 24th 2000:
In no particular order my "top ten" favorite film score composers (and I mention two sample scores each why I think so):
Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo, Fahrenheit 451)
Miklos Rozsa (Ben Hur, El Cid)
Alex North (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Agony and the Ecstasy)
Leonard Rosenman (Fantastic Voyage, The Lord of the Rings)
Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, Poltergeist)
Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
John Barry (The Lion in Winter, Body Heat)
John Williams (Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird)
Wojchiech Kilar (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Portrait of a Lady)
All choices are subject to change without further notice and represent simply what came to the author's mind at the time of posting. posted 04-11-2000 12:40 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB