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Bond1965
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Anyone here ever notice how Paul Verhoeven butchered Jerry Goldsmith's "End of a Dream" track at the end of "Total Recall?"I had a friend sync up the album to the film and you can see all the "hits" Jerry makes in his score that are not there because Verhoeven cut the track early.
Try it for yourself sometime...it's actually pretty cool.
James
posted 05-18-2002 11:37 AM PT (US) Dean Evans
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Yeah, I always thought it worked better the way Jerry intended it to be; and as you say, if the film is put up against the END OF A DREAM track, I think most would agree, it should have been left alone.Dean.
N.P:STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES John Williams
posted 05-18-2002 04:06 PM PT (US) MillsSomerset
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On this topic, I just watched the extra materials on my RECALL disc the other day and thought the documentary was pretty neat (if a bit more truncated than what I've been watching lately, yet it still managed to cover some stuff as a look-back perspective, something I wish more discs would do, vs. putting in footage from ten years ago or something to speak for an actor/prod./dir., etc.). Best part/most interesting thing was when they covered the ending and Jerry and Paul V. talking about the ending and the use of that "dream" theme and does that signify that indeed the ending of TOTAL RECALL identifies it as being another of Quaid's fantasies. I never really thought too hard about this - I'm a big RECALL fan and like that it 's brawny Arnie and relatively intelligent script-wise - but it was nevertheless interesting to see something now so blatant expressed most specifically through a musical cue (They even play the cue/the scene a couple times as they analyze this). Interesting...I must play the one cue, I think it's either from the Elevator fight or the whole "jumping onto those giant struts beside the glass wall" thing, constantly. It's this big driving staccato action cue (the chase in the subway system ain't shabby, either) that I personally consider some pretty quintessential Goldsmith music.
NP: Hearts in Atlantis.
posted 05-18-2002 04:20 PM PT (US) jonathan_little
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I'm sad that the music was cut for a bunch of lame sound effects. I also tried syncing up the CD to the film and was very impressed with the results.According to a post in this thread, I think that Verhoeven probably wasn't the reason that much of the cue was trashed. Blame the producers.
[Message edited by jonathan_little on 05-18-2002]
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