Which would you consider to be Horner's best theme?
Whether this means most beautiful, most whistlable, most fitting etc. is up to you.

Out of the dozens I've heard I'd have to choose the 'Freedom' theme from Braveheart, which appears in 2 tracks, most notably the finale - and which to my knowledge is not ripped-off in any other score of his

The floor is yours.

Original (as far as I know) : Legends of the Fall (The Ludlows)

Damn, I still don't have that score!

PS: This thread is very dangerous.

A few of mine would be,

Theme from Cocoon - Cocoon
Michael's Gift to Karen - Brainstorm
For Love of a Princess - Braveheart
The Wedding - Legends of the Fall
Preperations for Battle - Glory
Casper's Lullaby - Casper
Diego's Goodbye - The Mask of Zorro

to name a few granted these are the tracknames and not the actuall theme but you get the idea

NP: Mulan - Jerry Goldsmith

Np: Legends of the fall also one of his better themes *****!

Probably the main theme, but it's the only Horner score, along with Field of Dreams, that I absolutely love 100% so I'd go as far as saying any cue!

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Sneakers is great, I'd pick the "possibilities" theme, for lack of a better description. It's the one that plays prominently when Redford meets Kingsley again for the first time, and later during the final confrontation on the roof. Has a certain "space"-kind of sound.

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Is the "space" reference and in joke? Because Horner re-used parts of that VERY Sneakers cue in Apollo 13. I agree it's a great cue, especially it reaches that haunting "I may even be able to crash the whole damn system" line...

Dan (UK)

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Originally posted by Dan Brecher:
Is the "space" reference and in joke? Because Horner re-used parts of that VERY Sneakers cue in Apollo 13.

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I didn't even know about the Apollo re-use, I'm not very familiar with that score. Thor and I had a little discussion over at the FSM board about what I called the "space sound", something like that Sneakers motif. I find the "space sound" to be among the most inspiring music, it can also be heard at the beginning of Richard Strauss' Aus Italien, and I'm quite sure Philip Glass has it in the opening music for A Brief History of Time, but of course that score has never been released on CD.

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I agree it's a great cue, especially it reaches that haunting "I may even be able to crash the whole damn system" line...

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Great score. Great film.

This has always been one of my favorites, too, but a recent revelation qualifies it all. A portion of the music in this cue--specifically underscoring the moment Terry (James Earl Jones, Jr.) grins at the Kinsella family before journeying into the cornfield; and a variation of it in the cue entitled "Doc's Memories", specifically underscoring the moments earlier when young Moonlight Graham (Frank Whaley) turns into Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster)--is lifted from Copland's score to Our Town (1940). The crib makes sense in that both films and the works they're adapted from could be characterized as "pure Americana". Anyway, the music has been cited in a recent FSM hard copy article as the secondary Grovers Corner Theme, the actual notes having been included in an illustration for Mark Leneker's article. You may find to your own dismay as I did that the music (in the exact Dreams Come True incarnation) occurs in Our Town's early scene introducing both Mrs. Gibbs (Fay Bainter) and Mrs. Webb (Beulah Bondi).

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Yeah, that's Horner's best theme... without a doubt.

Jeron

ps - it seems i have broke the thread. i so sorry.

1. Main Title: An American Tail
2. Zorro's Theme/The Plaza of Execution/The Ride/Elena: The Mask of Zorro
3. Main Title: Apollo 13
4. Rose: Titanic
5. Freedom/Sons of Scotland/Warrior Poets/The Proposal: Braveheart

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Originally posted by André Lux:
Anyone knows if KRULL is original?
I really like this score, but would be very disapointed if I discover it was cloned from some Schuman's symphony, like he did with WILLOW...

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but don't particularly hear THE NATURAL in it ...

I still think it's a (brilliant) rearrangement of ...

"The Yellow Rose of Texas!"