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Originally posted by Dinko:
I think I heard about 5 minutes of score in this movie (not counting the instrumental end credits which would add another 5 minutes I guess).
The rest of what I heard consists of orchestral arrangements of songs.

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Actually, there's at least 20 solid minutes of score in the film....

THE FULL MONTY won the Oscar for Best Score with less.....

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
Actually, there's at least 20 solid minutes of score in the film....

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Which is Kevin's point....

20 minutes of solid score versus 150 minutes of solid score. Parallel this in terms of candlelight power and you'll begin to understand Kevin's comment about "candle."

I enjoyed Armstrong's score to MOULIN ROUGE, certainly, but I somehow don't think it was the actual score that the HFP was voting on.

Hopefully LOTR will have it's day somewhere in March. Not that it matters that much anyway. I just want to see Shore get rewarded for his great work.

I wanted, like the rest, LOTR.

--Brian

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Originally posted by Camillu:
Dan - are those 20 mins or so going to be released on the 2nd album, or are some of them already on the first CD?

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Well, dunno how much of it will be there, but yes (as I've said many many times in all the other MOULIN ROUGE threads), there will be score on the 2nd release. (No score on the first CD.)

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Originally posted by Crono/Kyp:
And that second CD comes out Feb 26th

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And you know what's funny? I still don't care! Guess that makes me either A) a bad film score fan, or 2) a snob.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
To be perfectly honest, I haven't been able to notice any score at all in Moulin Rouge...

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Try watching it again, and focus on it... it's there, quite prominently.

Dan

Apart from the Offenbach riffs and the songs, obviously, I barely heard anything above the high strung(out) jabbering and sound effects.

I suppose if the film had some innate charm to it I could look past the film's
excesses...but I heard and saw nothing in this maelstrom of costume changes and high-wire editing that remotely bore any resemblance to something I'd call entertainment.

I'm not sure I agree with Moulin Rouge winning best score, but I certainly don't think FOTR deserved it either. I actually thought that with the exception of 8 or 10 scenes, the score was one of the problems with the film.

The actual category is "Best Original Score" not "Best Arranged Pop Songs for a Musical. If it had said soundtrack instead of score then I might agree.

As a lover of musicals (Yes I liked the film), I would bet about a million dollars that they voted for the songs, not the score. Just like Full Monty.

I got the academy promo for Full Monty and there wasn't anything there that was as good as what lost.

I have heard the score for Moulin Rouge and the songtrack and the songs are what won it and they aren't even original songs. Bottom line, I think the songs did more for the film than the score did. But the Category is "Best Original Score" not "Most Effective Music" It may seem like semantics, but words do matter.

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In Moulin Rouge, just because actors are singing over music does not mean that the underlying music is not a score.

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Originally posted by Bozman:
I actually thought that with the exception of 8 or 10 scenes, the score was one of the problems with the film.

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Same here. Though maybe I would have said around 60-70 scenes.

I agree that they voted for the songs, or at the very least the overall musical palate of the film. This is the Golden Globes we’re talking about after all, which a good friend mine calls “The Festival of Cheapness.” Best Music would be a more fitting category for that show, as I don’t think journalists are qualified to judge a score. In the Academy, at least the composers have some say in who wins.

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Originally posted by SPQR:
Yes, but a 3 to 4 minute SELF-CONTAINED construct consisting of the human voice singing over music is generally understood and referred to as 'song' and not a 'score'.

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LOL!

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Originally posted by Quill:
It will most likely win Best Comedy/Musical score...which is fine...it is a musical after all...just keep it away from the real scores. Ooooh...someone's going to slam me for that last remark.

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Well, I can only slam you on the point that there is only ONE score category, not two as it had been back in the Disney-riddled 1990s. You might remember that if you watched the Oscars in 1999 when SOUTH PARK and TARZAN got the shaft.