as we all know, the score is excellent.
Goldsmith's waltz though is overly joyful I think. it's weird to hear it come up as the end titles begin.

I was also very pleased that the Steve Guttenberg was offed.

the larch...

Goldsmith uses the waltz form to show the strict attention to form over substance that so typified Nazi Germany.

Everything is structurally correct, but bereft of any real meaning or feeling. To me, it screams of the motion without any meaning. It is a perfect use of music to convey a subtext that, while never directly stated in the film, is never far from the mind of the viewer.

Every time the end credits begin, the waltz sounds absolutely perverse. Strange and brilliant.

NP: Morricone's "Casualties of War"

Nominated for an Academy Award the very same year that Williams' SUPERMAN was up for an Oscar.

Georgio Moroder's Midnight Express won.

Some of the most fun I've had with Film is breathlessly anticipating the negative impact of a performance of The Gute. Who can forget his magnetism in the COCOON movies? His studied and effective work in the THREE MEN AND A.... films? Can anyone here truly say that The Gute didn't change their life with his seamless inhabiting of the Sergeant Mahoney character from the POLICE ACADEMY epics? Can they?

Frankly, future re-releases of older films (a la THE EXORCIST) should not be permitted until the wonders of modern Digital technology are used to track in an enhanced Steve Guttenberg Death Scene. I just don't feel that CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND will ever be truly finished until we see that great, burping Mothership land directly on The Gute's head. JAWS? Bruce The Mechanical Shark would be more fearsome - and welcome - if that were Guttenberg spitting up Karo syrup on the deck of The Orca.

Someone start up a petition on this. We as a community simply DEMAND a higher Demise Ratio for this poor man's Doug McClure!

And that's all that needs to be said.

np: The Boys From Brazil (very expanded, not quite complete)

The possibilities are nearly endless. "My God, it's full of Gute".

It needs to be noted that the man has a sense for comedy scripts. Direct your attention to THE BEDROOM WINDOW, in which it is suggested that - get this - a woman wanted to have sex with him! Is that great, or what?

Those kidders. God, I love Film.

Whew.

guten Tag
guten Abend
guten Morgen
Es schmeckt gute!
Gute Scheisse!

Durchfallen ist nicht so GUTE!

(pardon my poor German)

Personally, I regard THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL as a watchable but juvenile movie experience. It has dated quite badly since the time of its release, and although the performances remain interesting, the subject of the movie is frankly risible. Despite this, Goldsmith’s score is absolutely superb, and MWRuger perfectly sums up the duality of the waltz-theme. In addition to the Straussian main theme, elements of the score strongly and effectively evoke Herrmann, Wagner and Mahler, but overall the score to THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL is unmistakably vintage Goldsmith.

Nothing wrong with CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, outside of the script, camerawork, acting and music.

Valerie Perrine, however.......

Looking For Mr. GUTE-Bar
The Long GUTE-Bye
Waiting For GUTE-O
They Shoot GUTES, Don't They?
The Thin Red GUTE
The Thirteenth GUTE

And I especially love those old horror classics:

GUTE-ula
GUTE-enstein
The GUTE Man
The Invisible GUTE
GUTE From The Black Lagoon
GUTE-Zilla
King Kong VS GUTE-Zilla

And my all-time favorite Sci-Fi film:

Grumpy Old GUTES!

"Army of GUTEness."

I still think that, in many ways, Evil Gute 2 is the better flick. Especially when Steve cuts off his hand and says, "Who's laughing now?" I was definitely laughing. He is hilarious.
Oh that Steve Guttenberg: Man Of Comedy.

Grumpy Old Gutes was a fine comedic work, but did anyone catch him in that earlier film "The Bad News Gutes"?

Still, it's hard to believe that the Steve in "Forbidden Gute" is the same one who later took a dramatic turn in the HBO movie biography "GUTE."

But seriously, while I haven't seen many movies starring Guttenberg, I think I at least remember him being good in Diner.

I forgot about Steve showing off his talent for starring in epics such as Moby Gute. Did anyone see him in Les Guterables?

It's films like those which let me also proclaim, "Steve Guttenberg: Man of Drama."

some examples:

The Gute and the Smurfness, score by Jerry Goldsmurf

Seven Smurfs in TiGute, score by John Wilsmurf

Batsmurf, score by Danny Guteman

We're Back! A Smurf's Story, score by James Smurfer

Portrait of a Smurf, score by Guteciech Kilsmurf

Mom and Dad Smurf the Smurf, Jerry Goldsmurf

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But why not "On Her Gute's Secret Service"?

And now Tim Burton is remaking them all over again!

WAIT UNTIL GUTE

DEBBIE DOES GUTE

SHOWGUTES

SEVEN GUTES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

HOW GREEN WAS MY GUTE

CASAGUTE

FORREST GUTE (I'm sure that this was already posted.)

SAVING PRIVATE GUTE