Anyway...do you know any other good "swashbuckling" scores?

(I seem to like scores that is composed to a "sea" movie... Cutthroat Island, Waterworld, Jaws, Titanic and more.)

Thanks

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is another, it's by one of the above named, too. But it's not "sea" related.

Marc

He never wrote anything.

PeterK

As Peter said above, David didn't write anything, though I *heard* he was responsible for providing Mr. Debney with few ideas. I don't think he was booted off the project, either. I might be wrong, but I think it was your good, old fashioned Goldsmithian scheduling conflict. Or something like that...

Jeron

NP- Hmmmmm... thought up this new theme that has this happy, Cider House Rules/My Dog Skip/Debney-ish sound to it. It's one of the few, rare times I actually remember something like this from a dream. Trying to decide if it's original or if I unawaringly ripped it off something. In the words of the great Winnie the Pooh... "Think, think, think..."

Get the Marco Polo recording, on an album entitled...Captain Blood . Also includes The King's Thief (Miklos Rózsa), Scaramouche (Victor Young) and The Three Musketeers (Max Steiner). If you like Cutthroat Island, you'll LOVE this album!

Oh, and both Captain Blood and Sea Hawk are by Korngold.

And is it just me, or are there glimpses of Prince Valiant (Waxman) and Moby Dick (Sainton) in Cutthroat Island? It IS a tribute to Golden Age scores (love that little dedication Debney wrote in the liner notes), so I'm not surprised.

Bits and pieces of Stargate find their way into Cutthroat Island. (maybe the other way around...I don't know..is it really cosmically important anyway?)

David Arnold had nothing to do with the score by John Debney, my soucre should know.

It's Debney himself.

Jeron

NP: 64-minute demo CD of music James Horner tossed off one weekend in hopes of getting the CUTTHROAT ISLAND assignment, much of it sounds surprisingly like other scores he's done, and even more of it like scores others have done. That wacky, unpredictable Horner!

Geena told me she wanted Ford A. Thaxton to score it, because she's quite a fan of movie soundtracks and has seen his name all over rec.music.movies, on various CDs, and on the MovieMusic.com message boards (little do most of you know, Geena visits these boards often, but rarely posts - sorry Geena!).

Unfortunately, people don't make the connection between the Geena Davis/Renny Harlin split: because Renny wouldn't hire Ford A. Thaxton to score it, Geena eventually left Renny. It took a few years, but Ford's participation in the three-ring relationship was just too much for everyone involved.

Hollywood, I tell ya!

PeterK

What a bizarro thread this became!

Anyway, rented this thing over the weekend, after playing the score for years....it's not that bad, some good action bits in there, but obviously the actors weren't into it....guess I can't blame them, I didn't care much either, I just wanted to hear loud explosions and loud London Symphony(got plenty of both). Geena buddy seemed pretty ill-suited for her role, but at least Frank Langella had some fun(must have been having Masters Of The Universe-Skeletor flashbacks).

Reason for dragging this back up is this....I see lots of people have a 2cd bootie of this, with NO sound efx. Can someone truly confirm this? Can someone get a copy into my paws? I need another hour of this score like a hole in the head, but what the hell right? While I'm at it, how about a copy of the 68min. Masters Of The Universe too? Really don't need that, but I'm feeling bombastic. I could make a Music From the Films Of Frank Langella with it though
Pardon the terseness of this if your reading....got a case of the Monday's
All I really need to know is if that 2cd Cutthroat exists w/out efx.

I think this is one of the great mysteries of our age (since the Rather/Kenneth/frequency mystery was solved).

Thank you for a little confirmation there Monkey!

I was beginning my resurrection of this thread was going to be shanghai'd