Quite a bit of the music has been changed...interestingly enough is either a mix in of other scores, or rearranging of Horner's work. While some of it is good...there is as much that is not:

1) Positive - I believe they used the training montage music from Counte of Monte Cristo for the scene where Achilles and Patriklos (sp?) are sparring in the beginning. Works surprisingly well and better than the original.

2) Hmmmm - used the opening theme music from Elfman's Planet of the Apes for the Hector-Achilles Duel. Works well, but I'm not sure the movie gained anything from the change (other than being different.) Odd music edit at the end of the scene as well.

3) NO! - Agememnon's/Achilles' death music replaced with other portion of Horner's score. Does not work nearly as well. This was actually one of the better portions of Horner's work as edited into the original cut of the film.

Many other areas where original score has been retracked. Some of it was most likely done due to scene length variation (the most obvious being the sacking of Troy), but I regret to say that as a whole I prefer the original "MUSIC" cut of the film better.

I love all of the added footage in this new cut. I think it adds dimensions to the film especially the aforementioned brutal sacking of Troy, one of the best beheadings I’ve ever seen on film and some expository scenes like one where Cox and Bean (Agamemnon and Odysseus) discuss convincing Achilles to stay and help the Greeks win. The music though was the colossal mistake of the Director’s Cut. And it kind of pisses me off to think that Wolfgang Petersen, who claimed he liked Yared’s original score to his face, then sheepishly sided with the suits in agreeing that Yared’s music was “too old sounding and inappropriate” for the original cut, thereby replacing it with Horner’s blockbuster sound. With this Director’s Cut of Troy, I see that Petersen must have been instrumental in replacing Yared because with this cut, his cut, the guy shows he just doesn’t understand music. In this new Troy, he uses selections from COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, STARSHIP TROOPERS and Danny Elfman’s PLANET OF THE APES. I thought that these choices completely take you out of the movie when you hear them because they don’t match the sound of Horner’s score at all. The replacement of Horner’s primal brilliant percussive track for the showdown between Achille’s and Hector is completely destroyed as it is replaced with Elfman’s PLANET OF THE APES theme. I thought it was awful and the horrible edit back to Horner’s music at the end of the battle exemplifies this travesty. I thought “What were they thinking?” The best scene in the movie was ruined.

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Originally posted by Wedge:
So here's a question ... having never seen the film or heard Horner's score, which cut of the film should I see first?

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
So after throwing out Yared's score and replacing it with Horner's new one, they now went on to butcher the Horner score, too? As if it wasn't bad enough to begin with?

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Right... What's odd is that some of Yared's score would've been perfect for the stuff they replaced with scores from other movies.

Clayton

Haha, Horner gets picked over Yared; they slaughter the best moments of Horner's and replace them with other random tracks. Haha!