Vangelis - The Bounty (Opening Theme)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 เม.ย. 2010
- This is the opening theme from the 1984 film, "The Bounty", directed by Roger Donaldson. The film is based on one of most notorious scandals in the history of the British Royal Navy - the seizure of the HMS Bounty by a group of rebellious crew members in 1789. The crew members had apparently become a bit too friendly with the natives of the island of Tahiti, and refused to leave.
The film stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh, the Bounty's commander, and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, Bligh's best friend turned lead mutineer.
"The Bounty" breaks with some of the conventions established by previous takes on the incident. Traditionally, Bligh was portrayed as a cruel, sadistic tyrant, and Christian as a brave freedom fighter.
However, this film offers a more sympathetic (and realistic) view of Bligh as a verbally abusive but otherwise quite progressive ship's commander simply trying to do his job. At the same time, Christian is given a less sympathetic (and, again, more realistic) portrayal as an opportunistic social climber. In other words, while Bligh was traditionally the villian and Christian the hero, "The Bounty" essentially reverses these roles or at least blurs the distinction.
The greatest break with tradition, however, is the film's haunting, synthesizer-based "space music" soundtrack composed and performed by Vangelis. Despite much demand, however, the soundtrack has never been released on CD, although the opening and ending theme were included Vangelis's 1989 soundtrack compilation, "Themes."
The video itself consists of an animated sequence from an old NASA documentary depicting the formation of the Solar System, combined with some artist's renderings of the formation of Earth in particular. This is the first time that I have included actual video footage in one of my videos. - เพลง
saw this film in the theater........lights dim.....complete darkness.....this soundtrack starts.....still nothing on the screen......then views of the ship still in the bay..... - you know there's going be tension in this story - amazing soundtrack
When I sat down in the theater in North Carolina in 1984, I was looking for an afternoon diversion, I was like "ho, hum, another Bounty movie."
Then Vangelis' music started, and I knew I was in for something special.
👍
I looked for this for 23 years!
I was 5 or 6 when I heard this in a planetarium. I had no idea who the composer was.
I FOUND IT !!!!!!!!!
congrats
Wow your a very slow person then, it took me barely a minute to find this song.
The Patriot ur fast
Patriot, you used Shazam probably. I didn't have that when I was 5 xD
Local planetarium where I am at plays Vangelis every time, for the last 30 years.
I've always felt that there is " just something " about this film that reaches into your mind. Vangelis music, just astounding. Acting standard, Hopkins, Gibson, Neeson - all top oscar professionals. Directing, first class. Script, great.
Also, the beauty of the location and the girl who played Gibson's love interest was a natural lovely looker.
This film should be looked upon as a classic.
“The Bounty” from 1984 is considered a classic.
My father suffered a mental breakdown after working decades for the NYPD. We escaped from him and his violence when I was 7. I visited him two decades later. He was living alone on a small sailboat in a Florida swamp. He wanted to show me some of his things from that time just after our escape. He had kept for all those years on his tiny boat a little castle and moat I had made in kindergarten. That and many other things from our childhood. He then showed me his badge and police ID photo from that time. The time he was living alone with his madness. This song was playing as he showed me. I'll never forget the look in his eyes in that photo, bright yet lifeless orbs glaring into an abyss.
Jesus!
Prove it.
Wher's love button? Vangelis= pure Genius
Something so ominous yet beautiful and nostalgic about this one
Great movie, by far the most historically accurate of the three movies made about the trip & mutiny.
Immediately after the opening credits of this movie I looked this up. Sounds so good.
One of the great movies in cinema history-and probably the best soundtrack of all!
What a great song. It set the tone for the whole movie, helping make the movie one of the greatest movies of all time
One of the best movie's and soundtracks I've ever seen.
On of the tightest, tensest films i have ever seen. The soundtrack is a perfect match. Hopkins is fantastic throughout. Fabulous stuff!
I have never seen a low-level performance from Hopkins. Perhaps the only person who can go more than toe-to-toe with DDL.
Hopkins and Lewis were stand out. You 100 per cent believed in their characters
This is an epic song. It really makes you think something BIG is about to happen.
doesn't a 'song' have lyrics--something we sing?
Philip Croft nah, brah. It’s a wordless song, and don’t you forget it, posthaste!
R.I.P Hero
THE GENIUS VANGELIS
Haunting, sad, mysterious, scary and beautiful all rolled up into one.
This and closing title always give the sensation to sail in an neverending mysterious sea... this title could have work well too for 1492...
Thank you Vangelis; for beautiful music.
I would agree with the other comments on this - it's one of the most atmospheric tracks you will hear on the opening credits of a film....along with scenes of brooding open sea scenes and rolling waves - this is an excellent and underated introduction to a pretty good film.
Vangelis=A Legend,A Genius,A Master
Haunting, very haunting. Though as beautifully haunting as it is ominously haunting.
Eerily brilliant, and spooky, music such as this activates certain primal and visceral instincts, unnerving the soul YET at the same time unleashing these warped, mystical sensations that reside deep within.
Music such as this is powerfully nostalgic, ominously breathtaking and spiritually captivating.
Definitely touches something deep within, all while smoothly and rhythmically vibrating with this enigmatic, spellbinding foreboding. LOVE IT!!
leave the weed alone
Oh boy you wrote out exactly what I have in mind about this!
I know of those mystical, untraceable realms you speak of !
Poetic words
Was the shit you had this morning ominously smelly?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This track is so dark!!! It's unbelievable!!!
You will suffer my correction whenever you're at falt, sir!!!!
this Is great Movie that is somewhat overlooked Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson are great so to is a young Liam Neeson and the movie has a great Vangelis soundtrack
Not to mention Daniel Day Lewis
and "Mr. 3 Oscar" Daniel Day Lewis...
Such an existential piece of music, you can literally think anything with this
true
The theme to when the mind is slowly getting damaged and corrupted.
All the emotions feel possible in this music. That's my review of it. It's that grand.
Great movie, great theme. Anthony Hopkins played one hell of a mean ships captain. I can honestly say I sailed in those parts of the pacific and brings back memories, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Tonga, Hawaii. Beautiful ocean and hot.
Vangelis theme tune in my option stands side by side with enno moricones Good, Bad and the Ugly soundtrack. SIMPLY ICONIC
So incredibly dark and foreboding, echoing with hidden menace, it reminds me of John Carpenter's 'The Thing'...
Menacingly beautiful..also manages to convey the incredible wastness of the Pacific Ocean somehow. I believe it might be the echo. Or maybe that is just in my head.
Absolutely. I see the vast Pacific from a great height, and the Bounty lost, and sailing into infinity. Although, I think the ending version of this fits better.
And also conveys the immense power and hidden mysteries of the ocean under the peaceful surface. And that also alludes to the characters and their feelings on the Bounty.
You're talking about a 1984 movie... that's about an 1789 event. I'm sure you meant vastness, as it is the largest ocean, and quite scary. Vangelis captured it just awesomely!
The vastness definitely, but I also hear the chains of Imperial dominance that clatter with their persistent greed and lust for bounty.
The piano section is the shimmers of sunlight that caress the mysterious islands that harbour natives still virgin to the iron Imperial grip.
The menacing background music I agree is all the vastness of endless ocean
Obviously, that’s why they used it.
Magnifique🙏💝
Best movie version of the Bounty story !! This soundtrack is amazing
The music captures the tension on board the ship between the two alpha males superbly
I would say that repeating flute like effect from 0:45 is lone gliding seagull above vast ocean scene. Depicts solitude, loneliness and complete freedom.
Genius composition. The piano synth is out of this world.
Stunning beautiful haunting.
Zee horror show memories.... This music is so haunting and deep...
Unforgattable Vangelis! Pure emotion song
Great track , brings tension to the entire movie.
great opening track
I love this track! Very nice video. The Vangelis atmosphere is Fantastic!
this is timeless!
To all history buffs. Bligh sailed to Java in an open boat when Christian put him over the side. One of the most heroic bits of seamanship of any time.
wouldn't history buffs already know that? you just like the sound of your own typing...
Another interesting fact: Bligh was actually mutinied three times during his career.
GaelicCelt1990 god damn their hides
@@GaelicCelt1990 yeah--he was very good at it, practice makes perfect
@@thehydronator3021 I hate the sight of yours.
The best movie i ever, seen!!!
ominous and foreboding......genius....
thank you for this wonderful Video!!
C'est le thème d'ouverture du film de 1984, "The Bounty", réalisé par Roger Donaldson. Le film est basé sur l'un des scandales les plus notoires de l'histoire de la Marine royale britannique - la saisie du HMS Bounty par un groupe de membres d'équipage rebelles en 1789. Les membres d'équipage étaient apparemment devenus un peu trop amicaux avec les autochtones du île de Tahiti, et a refusé de partir.
Le film met en vedette Sir Anthony Hopkins en tant que lieutenant William Bligh, le commandant du Bounty, et Mel Gibson en tant que Fletcher Christian, le meilleur ami de Bligh devenu mutin de plomb.
"The Bounty" rompt avec certaines des conventions établies par les précédentes prises sur l'incident. Traditionnellement, Bligh était décrit comme un tyran cruel et sadique, et Christian comme un combattant courageux de la liberté.
Cependant, ce film offre une vue plus sympathique (et réaliste) de Bligh comme un commandant de navire verbalement abusif mais par ailleurs assez progressiste essayant simplement de faire son travail. Dans le même temps, Christian est présenté comme un grimpeur social opportuniste moins sympathique (et, encore une fois, plus réaliste). En d'autres termes, alors que Bligh était traditionnellement le méchant et le héros chrétien, "The Bounty" inverse essentiellement ces rôles ou du moins brouille la distinction.
La plus grande rupture avec la tradition, cependant, est la bande-son obsédante du film de "musique spatiale" basée sur un synthétiseur, composée et interprétée par Vangelis. Malgré une forte demande, cependant, la bande originale n'a jamais été publiée sur CD, bien que le thème d'ouverture et de fin soit inclus dans la compilation de la bande originale de Vangelis en 1989, "Themes".
La vidéo elle-même consiste en une séquence animée d'un vieux documentaire de la NASA décrivant la formation du système solaire, combinée avec des rendus d'artistes de la formation de la Terre en particulier. C'est la première fois que j'inclus des séquences vidéo réelles dans l'une de mes vidéos.
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day-Lewis...
I looked the bounty today
Great movie great music
great and very dark Vengiles soundtrack
Scifimaster92, great video and yes pictures and the mood you presented are completely matching the mood of this genius music. Exploration is everything, that's one of the reasons to live.
Great lost for the music world. Vangelis for ever 😞
Brilliant sound track absolutely fantastic film
great movie great vangelis soundtrack
Great upload & many thanks. The video fits very well with this extreamly tense, almost forboding mood set by Vangelis. His music for the film was some of the best he's writen imo. It's a good film, but as i remember much of Vangelis incredible score was not included.
great how the movie has a black screen for the first minute as this ominous music fades in. hopkins was a great capt, bligh
OH there are rumblings are there Mr Christian ? No there is fear Sir !!! Are you afraid to go around the Horn Mr Christian ? Epic movie
Espectacular el tema !!
Vangelis es un dios de la musica
不安で悲しい曲だけど､なんか切なくて懐かしい感じがする。🎵
GENIUS.
I have been to Magnetic Island off the Queensland Coast in Oz - even by todays standards its still a very remote island and if that is anything to go by I mean that is only what 15-20 miles off the mainland coast of Queensland so god knows what went on at Pitcairn Island 1-2 hundred years ago. I don't think anybody on here actually realises just how remote Pitcairn is....its 2000 miles out into the Pacific....it is literally miles and miles and miles and miles from any civilisation
great composer
Bravo !
Great film and like the music, for some reason beyond me.
Read the book ''THE BOUNTY'' by Caroline Alexander, THE most researched book on the subject; amazing.
Superbe vidéo !
I am in hell! Hell, sir!
Imagine to watch Bounty and create music like this. Vangelis is one of the greatest in art, movie music. Dont like nowadays copiests
Last time i heard it is when i was in a creepy shipyard with my friends for an adventure, on a Walkman cassette
I love outer space. and cosmos.
Fenomenalno...
Gledao film zbog glazbe, a film odličan
Vukovar 1991. documentary. Croatia. War. This melody is stuck in my head because of that.
Excelente tema
Melodía usada como música incidental para "culebrones" sobre todo los "cheveres" con escenas violentas
wow!! Urotsukidoji II anime took this original theme also i see and mixed it down haha. They had good taste i see now
Music for the best film ever made in my opinion
Damn, this guy is a genius
genius
Magnetic Island for those who don't know is where Captain Cook landed
I have a bit different opinion.The British Fleet had harsh discipline on board but what Blight introduced was over the bearable by any humans limits.Post-partum trial cleared Blight of all accusation but as a matter of fact what the jury had option ?Making Blight guilty opened door for disputing commander position on board and endless trials for Admiralty.
They preferred to side with Blight and close the case.Anyway blight reputation as commander was tarnished and his carrier was broken forever.
This voyage for Blight was a honourable duty.For Christian and some other on board just a duress.Blight did not feel the mood of the crew and got what he earned.
Anyway he made excellent navigation and saved all his crew being with him in the boat.That deed made him famous in navigation annals .
"The British Fleet had harsh discipline on board but what Blight introduced was over the bearable by any humans limits."
What exactly did he introduce that was over the human leaders? The tyrannical portrayal of Blight in the older movies was mostly fiction.
When the keyboard kicks in, pinches my soul
Excelente bufff que musica
I have this soundtrack on CD.
Liked the movie so much plus this awesome track. Any chance you can upload the full soundtrack thanks mate.
The END theme is about the same as this one, but faster and with a bit of sadness and hopelesness....
Mr Christian.....
Vangelis should be the composer for Fallout 4.
@bluejeckett I just thought the images matched the mood of the music. By the way, you're the first person to point that out.
Klasse
Am I the only one who remembers this from Zee Horror Show?
Yes, this music used to scare the crap out of me. Something unpleasant would happen whenever this ominous music would start. Old memories!
Yes they used it quite often in all their episodes with the same characters...
Full soundtrack for download Available on Amazon. co .uk
We set sail December 23rd 1783, 2 days before Christmas 🥁🥁😀🍭🍭🎈🎈🤸♀️🤸♂️🎃🎄🎄🎁🎁🎈🧨🧨🎍🎍
@nicknasty14 i believe it is on a CD entitled "THEMES BY VANGELIS"
That was the first place it showed up. Supposedly there was a limited pressing of the entire soundtrack, but never anything official other than "Themes."
@wingedpaner00 yea, i saw that. i am on the search for the whole soundtrack. looks like a very limited number were made in Italy i believe. very hard to find! i have a couple of these on mp3s already, but wouldnt mind that soundtrack. haunting and intense stuff. will have to check out blade runner score next!
@Scifimaster92 And by the way, I didn't mean to be rude or anything, so I apologize if it came out that way.
Oh, and if you like, you can check out my video for the end theme, which consists of space images up until the end, at which point an image of a sailing ship (actually the HMS Bounty itself) appears. This is intended as a "flashback" of sorts to the early days of exploration.
Makes me want to take a tramp steamer to some exotic isle...
Çok güzel bir müzik
here's the unreleased remastered film version: th-cam.com/video/IIz4KQgu4SA/w-d-xo.html
Why we are trying to understand how it was that you lost the Ship Mr Bligh......
I don’t know......it was the place itself.