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Topic: Who composed the main theme to Peter Weir's Gallipoli film ?
KL70
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Can anyone name who composed the main theme
to Peter Weir's Gallipoli film.
posted 06-14-2003 03:53 PM PT (US) BMikeJ
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You may be thinking of Albinioni's Adagio For Strings which is used quite prominently in the film.
posted 06-14-2003 04:41 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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Wasn't there a fair amount of Vangelis music in the film as well?
posted 06-14-2003 09:51 PM PT (US) franz_conrad
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The original music for the film sounds like Vangelis (especially for the running scenes), but I think was actually by Brian May, he of Mad Max (in)famy. There was also some work by Jean Michel Jarre whose father Maurice Jarre would later provide a mix of thematic beauty (Dead Poet's Society, Witness, Fearless) and electronic mess (Mosquito Coast, Year of Living Dangerously) for Weir's films.The Albinoni piece (Adagio in C) is certainly the most memorable piece from the film's soundtrack, indeed, from just about any war film ever. It is more haunting even than Barber's Adagio for Strings or Zimmer's Journey to the Line which have both been used to great effect in war films. (Perhaps the Australian bias is at work here, but then again I could do without Brian May bells and whistles.)
Looking forward here to Chris Gordon's upcoming work for Weir's The Other Side of the World. His Moby Dick and On the Beach are stunningly good.
NP Hail to the Thief (... that We Suck Young Blood is a real dance macabre piece)
posted 06-14-2003 11:22 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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I think you are right: Weir used Vangelis for Year of Living Dangerously and Jean-Michel Jarre for Gallipoli. It's been a long time since I've seen Gallipoli and I don't remember the details 100%
posted 06-15-2003 02:12 AM PT (US) Timmer
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A good film ruined by the use of inappropriate music, particularly the use of Jarre's 'Oxogene'...or was it 'Equinox'?....either way it just didn't work!
posted 06-15-2003 05:18 AM PT (US) workaluk
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The music in the scene where Mel Gibson is running along the trenchers it's not from Brian May,but is from Jean Michel Jarre,Oxygene Part 2 if i'm not mistaken,and i must say it fits perfectly in that scene.....NP-Red Dragon-Danny Elfman
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posted 06-15-2003 09:36 AM PT (US) Timmer
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To each their own!
posted 06-15-2003 05:40 PM PT (US) Dana Wilcox
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quote:
Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
I think you are right: Weir used Vangelis for Year of Living Dangerously and Jean-Michel Jarre for Gallipoli. It's been a long time since I've seen Gallipoli and I don't remember the details 100%Last I heard Maurice Jarre is the credited composer for YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, though it's nothing much to brag about...
posted 06-19-2003 10:14 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB