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Topic: Total Recall: "End of a Dream"
jonathan_little
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The other night I had nothing better to do, so I popped Total Recall into my VCR and the CD into my player.My goal was to listen and to watch the "End of a Dream" cue with Jerry's music instead of the sound effects which were used in place of the score.
The result was very good! I think the music fit the scene perfectly and that it is a shame that much of this fantastic music was not used in the film. I also finally know what that hectic tuba music was composed for (it's falling down the hill music.)
I'd just like to know what Paul Verhoeven was thinking when he replaced the music with sound effects! *UGH*
posted 12-30-2000 09:02 PM PT (US) Brad Wills
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My dear friend, Sheriff Joe Rixman, told me about attending the SPFM tribute to Jerry Goldsmith. Paul Verhoeven was one of the speakers and Joe said that Verhoeven nearly cried when he spoke of how the producers insisted on the removal of the majority of this amazing cue. Indeed, it's an artistic shame. While the sequence plays fine as is in the finished film, Goldsmith's music as written ties all the disparate elements into a cohesive unit. It's an amazing piece of writing.
posted 12-30-2000 09:34 PM PT (US) Aaron R. Brown
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I have Total Recall on DVD so I need to see how that scene was scored. I had the original cd Total Recall a while and I didn't notice that the music was missing in the film. "End of a Dream" is probably one of Goldsmith best action sequences. Its even a bit heroic in a rough sort of way.Over at Filmtrack the webmaster thinks that The Matrix should have had a score like Total Recall. I don't think Goldsmith's style for Total Recall would have worked with The Matrix. Total Recall isn't cool and sleek like Don Davis' score. I think that Total Recall is just too rough and brutal for The Matrix. Anyone else agree with me?
posted 12-31-2000 02:33 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Too rough and brutal? Man, have you heard the "subway fight" music in The Matrix?Shaun
posted 12-31-2000 03:20 PM PT (US) Swashbuckler
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As one who loves Total Recall very much, I must say that I think that it is a very different animal than The Matrix, and that Don Davis caught the latter film perfectly with his explosive, postmodern and intellectually challenging music.Speaking of "intellectually challenged," I believe we were talking about the producers who cut the latter portion of "The End of a Dream" from Total Recall?
posted 01-02-2001 10:00 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB