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Topic: Gladiator!!!!!!
Lonely Guy
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My best friend and I got together today for lunchies today and he had a copy of the Goldsmith Gladiator score that was rejected.
Not only is the score terrific but the sound is fantastic!!! It's astonishing that this score was rejected.
Granted, The Vanishing makes several appearances, but that's understandable, considering this score was written before The Vanishing and Goldsmith figured no one was going to hear it again, so why not reuse it for The Vanishing? Now HORNER, on the other hand.......
posted 10-04-2000 04:47 PM PT (US) Crono/Kyp
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Huh? You talking about the Ridley Scott "Gladiator" movie? Or something different?--Kyp
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posted 10-04-2000 04:50 PM PT (US) Lonely Guy
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NAW! I'm talking about the boxing movie from umpteen years ago.
It really is a great score!
posted 10-04-2000 04:56 PM PT (US) Lonely Guy
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It had Brian Dennehy in it.
NP- I'm listening to the voices in my head..
...PLEASE MAKE THEM STOP!!!! OH GOD; PLEASE MAKE THEM STOP!!!!!!!
posted 10-04-2000 04:58 PM PT (US) Crono/Kyp
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Oh yeah! DUH.--Kyp
Writer/AVID EditorNP: The Man in the Iron Mask: Nick Glennie-Smith (****1/2/*****)
posted 10-04-2000 05:08 PM PT (US) Timmer
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Now HORNER, on the other hand...... So watcha trying ta say Lonely???
posted 10-04-2000 05:35 PM PT (US) scoreboy13
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I remember that movie. Cuba Gooding Jr. was in it too. I don't quite recall the score though.Clay G.
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posted 10-04-2000 05:57 PM PT (US) Hard Target
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Goldsmith's was rejected Clay, and it's shame it was because it's light year's better than what Brad Fiedel wrote for the film which was droning. Goldsmith's score is definetly worth picking up for the right price, but then again this is Goldsmith. It's always the right price. hehehe
P.O.
The Public Eye (Jerry Goldsmith, just kidding, Mark Isham) **/**** posted 10-04-2000 08:37 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Goldsmith later said that GLADIATOR (1992) was the most miserable experience of his career so far, because director Rowdy Herrington couldn't communicate what he was looking for at all. If Goldsmith was unhappier here than on ALIEN or LEGEND, then that's saying something.I've heard parts of the score and thought them excellent. Indeed, far better than what Brad Fiedel came up with, except for the fact that what Fiedel wrote was apparently precisely the sort of non-present background score the director was after. Fiedel also scored Herrington's subsequent (and even more incoherent) STRIKING DISTANCE. The best piece of "scoring" in the finished GLADIATOR is the main title song, culled from an album by Seal (and not included on the actual soundtrack album.) Same song was used again to open the Robin Williams-guest star episode of TV'S HOMICIDE, around December 1993.
In the short commercial Goldsmith shot for the L.A. Times, he's playing the piano, and, I'm told, the selection is a bit from GLADIATOR. I certainly didn't recognize the tune the one time I saw the commercial, so it only makes sense.
posted 10-05-2000 09:11 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB