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SFT Oscar® Winner	Yep - who should score this next Mel Gibson film? Apparently it will be in latin and aramaic with NO subtitles Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the composer, whoever it is, will tackle a project like this. I really, really hope the job does NOT go to James Horner. My favourite would be Elfman (surprise..) but maybe he isn't the most likely choice. SFT
posted 03-21-2003 10:36 AM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	I tend to think that a Horner score would be too burdensome and heavy-handed for a movie like this -- but I think it's a pitfall many could fall into. I've no doubt Horner could do something apare and minimal if he wanted to, but that's not really what he does. Now that I've said that, I have no idea WHO would be appropriate. NP -- Unfaithful, Kaczmarek...maybe this guy? dunno
posted 03-21-2003 11:21 AM PT (US)

Erik Woods Oscar® Winner	If Gibson goes with tradition he will ask Horner to score the film. Horner has scored his other two films... THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE and BRAVEHEART. -Erik-
posted 03-21-2003 11:23 AM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	Well, I guess the difficulty with this project will be scoring a film which will work almost entirely on a visual level - not too many people have the linguistic skills to understand what is being said, so Gibson will have to very expressive. Naturally most people know the basic story already, but I think particularly the music will have an important role in the individual scenes. It all depends on Gibson's approach to the material, naturally, but I also believe, like JJH, that a more minimalistic score would be apropriate, if anything to get away from the "epic" sound of other Christ-films. Hey, wouldn't Kilar be great? Or maybe Thomas Newman could do something interesting. On a related note, the two silent films "The Passion of Jesus Christ" and "From the Manger to the Cross" are being released on DVD early next month. These were made in 1905 and 1915. I guess the interest in religious films has always been there. But I think Gibson will be portraying the MAN Jesus and not the devine Christ. SFT
posted 03-21-2003 11:39 AM PT (US)

RomanticStrings Oscar® Nominee	I would like to see Goldsmith do it. Goldsmith can do that big Biblical sound, and I would like that very much. ~Conor
posted 03-21-2003 02:29 PM PT (US)

rkeaveney Oscar® Winner	Ennio Morricone. Ryan
posted 03-21-2003 02:39 PM PT (US)

Richard Street Oscar® Winner	Here's a controversial suggestion (no, not Eric Serra - not that controversial ): No music. NP: TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (Wang Chung)
posted 03-21-2003 03:21 PM PT (US)

Squiddybop Oscar® Nominee	I think Mychael Danna would do a pretty decent job of it.
posted 03-21-2003 03:42 PM PT (US)

Richard Oscar® Winner	I was going to post similar thread about a month or so back but I forgot to enter my password, lost my post and was too lazy to retype. I was thinking either... a. no music b. Gabriel Yared c. Ennio Morricone d. Badly Drawn Boy
posted 03-21-2003 06:54 PM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	I was thinking Mychael Danna as well, but I also think Don Davis could do it. And (call me crazy) if he stayed away from the pop influence, I think Craig Armstrong could do a good job. Kirk
posted 03-21-2003 07:17 PM PT (US)

justin boggan Oscar® Winner	Wait a second... The Passion? The Rock, The Ring, The Lion King, The House Of Spirits... The Fan? I know! Five guys with Zimmer whistling the tunes out.
posted 03-21-2003 10:42 PM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	Greg Dean Schmitz at Yahoo! Movies has this interesting comment to make about the music in the film: quote: A thought about this movie occurred to me recently... if Mel Gibson is successful with his plans to keep this movie in Latin and Aramaic, might another realm he could try to be authentic in be the music? Modern audiences are fairly used to hearing "orchestral music" in historical epics used to establish a sweeping, emotional tone... but that entire musical evolution didn't happen until over 1,000 years after Jesus died. Might Gibson stick with music that Jesus would have actually heard during his life... the simple folk music of the region, or perhaps the (also very simple) horns of Rome? It seems to me that this would be effective, and in a way, maybe a little haunting. If Gibson is trying to truly transport us to that other time, music should also be part of the puzzle, right? That hadn't occurred to me, but it would be rather interesting. Kirk
posted 03-22-2003 12:51 AM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	That sounds like it could very well work. I really think a "big Biblical sound" for this film would be inappropriate. SFT
posted 03-22-2003 01:40 AM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	How about Howard Shore?
posted 03-22-2003 06:53 AM PT (US)

nightwing Oscar® Winner	Although I don't like most of his music, one score I do like by him is The Mission, which a like score probably would be appropriate. I'm talking, of course, about Ennio Morricone.
posted 03-23-2003 09:05 PM PT (US)

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