Regrets, bitter sweet memories, nostalgia, a pain that you don't want to escape, frustrated desire, a prayer whispered within your soul...these are the states that this soundrack trigger in me
@@alankirkby465 "Chinatown", like Polanski's other supreme masterpiece "Rosemary's Baby", is about a certain "experience" when one gets a taste of the hell that exists on earth behind the scenes. Many people go through this "experience" to various degrees and it's very specific in a way, so those who have been through "it" might relate to what I'm talking about here.
I'm going through a painful breakup at the moment and you described it perfectly, this is the soundtrack I've been listening to as it perfectly reflects the pain & regrets.
Totally. And I have a third movie theme. Listen sometime to David Raksin's theme from the 50's film The Bad & the Beautiful. Complex, haunting, masterful.
Just finished reading "The Big Goodbye," about the making of Chinatown. Producer Robert Evans, unhappy with Director Roman Polanski's choice of a music composer, showed up on Jerry Goldsmith's door step and asked the composer to "save my life." Goldsmith had the Chinatown score recorded in a week.
+Cosmic Dingo You might be right. Robert Towne wrote an alternative ending, a complex one, but Polanski wanted the shock effect, in the director's words, " If everything is wrapped up in a happy ending, just because the merchandizing people prefer it, the audience leaves and forget[s] about the problem right over dinner."
@@tedthompson7770 Being able to have feelings about music is a blessing that you, I and our peers in this comment string share. We are truly fortunate!
Jerry Goldsmith was a f……ing musical genius. No one else could have come up with an amazing score like this. “Chinatown” would not have been anywhere near the film masterpiece without this score.
Whenever I listen to this music I sense profound sadness, irretrievable nostalgia, a feeling of unforgiveness of past events. And so much more actually... I just love it.
This is the sound of old Los Angeles as it was fading away, echos of better times gone forever...feeling the soft mist gently blowing in from the ocean...sitting up in Griffith Park, looking at the lights and wishing she was there beside you...
I was 12 when I first heard this in 76 when it was on tv. Couldn’t find it in a record store. It was way before the internet. So magical hearing it now as an extended version.
I have to admit I was sad at the end of Chinatown and hearing this bittersweet nostalgic music made me cry seeing jake walk off into the distance when he just lost Evelyn
Goldsmith's genius is not that he wrote the whole score in ten days. Instead, it is that this theme so completely and thoroughly and perfectly evokes the spirit and atmosphere of the film itself! How'd he do it?
I just discovered that the musician who played the trumpet in the “Chinatown” theme was named Uan Rasey, who died at the age of 90 in 2011. Beautiful trumpet playing!
Uan was also a great friend and teacher, and a truly noble human being. He spent much of his life using crutches to walk, and yet he did not waste time feeling sorry for himself, instead playing beautifully and working hard at his music. I understand he was a very good friend to my trombone teacher, and those students of his I know all say he was a wonderful teacher. We all loved Uan, and he just seemed a natural in every way.
Did you know he played this all sightread after two weeks off playing trumpet and going to a football camp, he had no idea what the music was going to be
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard - at once romantic and heartbreaking, and thus so fitting for this tragic mystery romance. Uan Rasey has the most beautiful tone I"ve ever heard and I am a big fan of horns -- he needs to be famous. Just absolutely beautiful.
My dad was a studio trumpeter in L.A., and Uan was a good friend of his. In fact, I think he was everyone's friend... Uan was that kind of person: unfailingly warm, kind and positive. He had polio as a child and spent most of his life on crutches, but it didn't affect his attitude or his music one bit. He was a remarkable guy.
Still my favorite movie, everything in it is just perfect, acting, story, dialogue, costumes, production design, and of course the music, just fantastic!
Just love the jazz scores they played in these 70s classic films...... they had some in Klute (1971) and Kansas City Bomber (1972). The tunes will make ya cry.....
"Chinatown" is a supreme masterpiece. Easily one of the top 5 greatest films ever made in all of cinema history. "Chinatown" is almost too real. And here's a secret truth about "Chinatown": it actually deeply connects to "Rosemary's Baby". When you understand that "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" are essentially about the same thing you understand what Polanski's art is exposing. It's the same dark depths of power and nihilism, the same gradual trip of almost innocent disbelief down the rabbit hole into the other world behind the world, the Jungian Shadow acted out in reality, a realm of almost surrealistic horror, too evil and grotesque to fathom until it's too late. The violations of trust, the shattering of faith and good will, the nightmare that lurks just below the thin veil of normalcy, the psychopaths and the webs they weave... they can be anybody, even the people closest to you, who suddenly become distrustful. Those harmless friendly old nextdoor neighbors, your struggling actor husband who wants so badly to make it in the world, a woman you meet almost by greater destiny whom you fall in love with and seek to help and protect until you find out her hidden truths. Who can be trusted? What really goes on behind the scenes when we're not looking? And is there any point in the end? Polanski doesn't just capture the nature of ordinary life, he captures the secrets of life that only get discovered when one wanders too close to the edge. Polanski's films are about monstrous conspiracies, rooted in pure evil that cannot even be humanized or explained because it hides in the shadows. The final scene of "Chinatown" is one of the most horrifying, disturbing, pessimistic, haunting scenes in cinema history. Like "Rosemary's Baby" it ends with an unrelenting look at the truth, finally exposed in a soul-eating nausea. The monsters remove their masks and their true faces underneath are too ugly to behold, yet they are witnessed regardless. In "Chinatown" it's ultimately an expressionist shout with nobody to hear, and it reverberates tragically out into eternity, like a cyclic awakening from a dream, the fatalistic endpoint of all roads of unknown destiny.
it can be explained. you said it yourself. it lies in the shadows. the shadow of the people, yourself. people get pushed, and that can end bad. the more pain you feel, no matter if you know it or not, the more you walk to the endge of the abyss. looking down, seeing others in the same state like you. or even worse. its bittersweet, and hell. ps: i like your text. very beautyful and moving.
He's a lot like Will Smith, really screwed up childhood came back to haunt them professionally and socially. Polanski was a great director in his prime.
This is one of the best pieces of cinematic critique I’ve ever read. Every filmmaker and critic should read this. You should forward to Polanski’s, Towne’s and Nicholson’s agents.
"The Pianist" and "The Death And The Maiden" are obvious additions to the list of one of the greatest directors ever (along with Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese). Intelligent drama or even comedy rarely if ever means happy endings, 'cause there always will be difference between adult fiction and fairytales (Top Gun! Die Hard! etc).
Wonderful music! I always picture Jack Nicholson, Faye Runaway in that great movie every time I hear this song. Jerry Goldsmith really came through on this! Bravo!
Just os haunting, beautiful, nuanced, the perfect bridge between the fleeting moments of love and happiness... they just don't make 'em like this anymore.
Why even concern yourself with how many dislikes there are? Kids, and some older folk that should know better, go scrolling through videos disliking everything they see. Pay them no mind, I say.
I cannot think of a finer movie of its kind: the ultimate film noir accompanied by GREAT acting and the finest musical score (a score that bespeaks the nature of the film). It is PURE INSANITY that this picture did NOT win BEST PICTURE -- way better than GODFATHER PART II which wasn't a bad picture.
i first heard this at the end of a simpsons episode, and have yet to see the film chinatown. its a sound that has been in my mind for as long as i can remember. easily the most beautiful piece of music to have graced my ears. the trumpet is absurd. the strings manipulate your mind.
The most fascinating and the most beautiful musical composition that we did for a noir film (with a very particular atmosphere) in all the history of the cinema, especially this short passage with the sax and piano ballad, the main theme is Pure Genius we find ourselves transported into the violent and dark atmosphere of these 1920s, chaotic like the private office that tries to get laid and to scrape crumbs in the process and get by without too much breakage.
This haunting theme was so well written and well mixed into the film that until I bought the album I couldn't quite recall the music just walking out of the theater.
This is a perfect score. Jerry Goldsmith is always sorta pitted as a runner up for Hollywood's greatest composer next to Johnny Williams, but with this it supersedes Williams sound. He couldn't have done it better if he tried. This is reflective of the period, noir yet is ethereal and timeless. Its music that represents an emotion.
He's so much more versatile then Williams and I'm a big John Williams fan. Although it's mostly comparing apples to oranges, if anyone listens to Goldsmith's work over the entirety of his career, he's the better composer. Hands down IMO. His arrangements are more complex, experimental and innovative.
Mr. Polanski changed that final scene the night prior to filming. Originally Ms. Dunaway’s character shoots & kills her rapist father,,it rainstorms ending the drought and she & the Jake character lives happily ever after.
not only its more shocking but its actually more realistic most of these things happen now and more back in the day but nirmally these kind of situations never see tye light of day in the news
Very few competitors: "On The Beach" (1959), "Fail-Safe" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Witchfinder General" (1968), "Don't Look Now" (1973), "The Wicker Man" (1973), "The Parallax View" (1974), "The Stepford Wives" (1975)... These came to mind atm.
I like both films tremendously and I enjoyed Chinatown better on my first watch but if I put the two movies side by side, The Godfather Part II had awesome acting, especially from John Cazale, who wasn't nominated for an Oscar.
This is not just music, this is Uan Rasey, one of the most amazing trumpet players, who makes all of us feel what we feel! PS He contracted polio as a child and spent his career playing trumpet while using crutches. Check him out people!
No matter how many times I listen to this music, I never get tired of it. It is so beautiful and mesmerizing. Always puts you in a great state of mind!🎶
That piano pierces through everything else that makes the song feel soft and dream-like. It makes it something more than just a traditional noir theme.
Sums up all the evil and the hurt we get from life and then crumples me into a ball as I linger in loneliness, foregoing the thought that someone special could take it all away but no, no the shadows won't go and we just have to cry. :(
Gracias, gracias, gracias. Considero que este es uno de los temas musicales de cine más conmovedores y que más se ajustan al film que representan. El clima de enorme melancolía que genera es increíble. Gran creación de Jerry Goldsmith. Por otra parte, la interpretación del trompetista Uan Rasey es, simplemente... extraordinaria. Gracias, muchas gracias por este video. Saludos desde Argentina.
+Ralph Dratman ¡Qué bueno encontrar gente con tu sensibilidad Ralph!, me alegro que coincidamos en el gusto por este maravilloso tema y su interpretación. ¡Ah!, y de paso te comento que tu apellido (aunque distinto) me recordó al personaje protagonista de un famoso cuento de Jorge Luis Borges ("El Sur"); el personaje se llamaba Juan Dahlmann. Saludos
I’ve heard quite a few covers of this song and it’s always so emotionally resonant, just a beautiful piece of music. It doesn’t matter who plays it, the notes still hold the same power.
I remember I had to play this for trumpet, and I listened to this music before watching the film. I thought the music was extremely beautiful and peaceful and I thought this was for a happy scene. After watching the movie, this music always gives me the chills.
Tonight I worked up the courage to ask out a great friend of mine after not having seen her for a while. We held each others' hands and she told me that, in my absence, she had been accepted to a school out-of-state. I was okay until I got to my car and this track played on my CD. I had to cry just a little bit after that.
"She won't live, but then again, who does?? Probably seen this work of art 20 times and if I see it another 20 I'll always think to myself, maybe this time she drives off to a better life for her and her daughter. Wow, that is the power of truly great cinema. Maestro Goldsmith's theme captures the beauty, sadness and ultimately the futile desolation of those trapped in the world of Chinatown.
Regrets, bitter sweet memories, nostalgia, a pain that you don't want to escape, frustrated desire, a prayer whispered within your soul...these are the states that this soundrack trigger in me
@@alankirkby465 "Chinatown", like Polanski's other supreme masterpiece "Rosemary's Baby", is about a certain "experience" when one gets a taste of the hell that exists on earth behind the scenes. Many people go through this "experience" to various degrees and it's very specific in a way, so those who have been through "it" might relate to what I'm talking about here.
Wow. I love your comment. Marry me
.yes!!! it does, it's called life,and all of that is a part of it
I'm going through a painful breakup at the moment and you described it perfectly, this is the soundtrack I've been listening to as it perfectly reflects the pain & regrets.
My English is poor, but let me tell you that your comments on the music are simply amazing and intelligent!!
"Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown."
+Donnie Skuza, okay
This comment just made my day
I have been waiting for over 45 years to say that to someone. I only have one buddy named Jake. He isn't anywhere near Chinatown (lol).
Donnie Skuza make that 33
Realmente, uma das frases mais marcantes desse filme; além da música!!!
The only thing wrong with this music is it doesn't go on for a couple of hours. What a great piece of music. One of the very best. Wonderful.
I'm with you 100%.
@@robertdanielenko7817 Me, too. This score is sublime. And didn't Goldsmith jump in at the last minute and write it in something like 10 days?
@@giovanna8187 That's what I've read!
Totally agree. There's a certain mood ... I could just listen to this theme forever.
You should check out John Zorn's cover. It's longer by about two minutes and has an ambient tinge to it.
Once you hear this theme, you don't forget it.
forget it jake, it's chinatown
@@ryanfarrar9185 Damn you ! I was about to remark the very thing and then I open your remark and....Damn you !
@@MusicJunky3 forget it MusicJunky3, it’s TH-cam
Sorry, Mr. Gits
Saw this and Taxi Driver back to back. Two perfect jazz scores
that's quite a combo
I actually did that just today!! Other way around though; I watched Taxi Driver first. Really lovely music.
If you liked Chinatowns & Taxi Drivers theme check out Once Upon a Time In Americas "Deborah's Theme". Easily my three favorite music scores.
Herrmann, Goldsmith and Morricone ? lol - just those old guys. You my friend have GREAT taste.
Totally. And I have a third movie theme. Listen sometime to David Raksin's theme from the 50's film The Bad & the Beautiful. Complex, haunting, masterful.
Just finished reading "The Big Goodbye," about the making of Chinatown. Producer Robert Evans, unhappy with Director Roman Polanski's choice of a music composer, showed up on Jerry Goldsmith's door step and asked the composer to "save my life." Goldsmith had the Chinatown score recorded in a week.
Perhaps the pinnacle of neo-noir, and among the greatest of noir in general. A perfect film.
Perfect
+Cosmic Dingo You might be right. Robert Towne wrote an alternative ending, a complex one, but Polanski wanted the shock effect, in the director's words, " If everything is wrapped up in a happy ending, just because the merchandizing people prefer it, the audience leaves and forget[s] about the problem right over dinner."
Yeah too bad the Director is a P.O.S. :P
More interesting, still, and just as off topic: there are no streets in Georgia named, "Sherman Way". Isn't that a riot?
Art is art. In movies, personal feelings don't matter. Polanski is a genuis no matter what he did.
One of the most evocative themes ever. Nostalgia, melancholy, imagination and resignation - all of it.
very well spoken, sir
And Bobby Hackett on trumpet
I used to play this, over and over, for hours on end. Especially great for rainy nights!
@@tedthompson7770 Being able to have feelings about music is a blessing that you, I and our peers in this comment string share. We are truly fortunate!
@@peterlongo4122 Who would have thought that a hard brass instrument can be so subtle in what it accomplishes?
Jerry Goldsmith was a f……ing musical genius. No one else could have come up with an amazing score like this. “Chinatown” would not have been anywhere near the film masterpiece without this score.
Whenever I listen to this music I sense profound sadness, irretrievable nostalgia, a feeling of unforgiveness of past events. And so much more actually... I just love it.
This... my god, this music is haunting but so beautiful at the same time. Jerry Goldsmith, I salute you: sleep well and let your music dream for us.
Fun Fact: Jerry Goldsmith had only 10 days 2 do all the music.
You are a true appreciator of good music and everyone else can identify themselves with the boobs that proliferate the earth!
This is the sound of old Los Angeles as it was fading away, echos of better times gone forever...feeling the soft mist gently blowing in from the ocean...sitting up in Griffith Park, looking at the lights and wishing she was there beside you...
Sets the mood & time perfectly. Beautiful trumpet. Should have won the Oscar
I totally agree..The underbelly of LA is not what we think.. Prob Polanski's Best...
I was 12 when I first heard this in 76 when it was on tv. Couldn’t find it in a record store. It was way before the internet. So magical hearing it now as an extended version.
I have to admit I was sad at the end of Chinatown and hearing this bittersweet nostalgic music made me cry seeing jake walk off into the distance when he just lost Evelyn
Goldsmith's genius is not that he wrote the whole score in ten days. Instead, it is that this theme so completely and thoroughly and perfectly evokes the spirit and atmosphere of the film itself! How'd he do it?
It's easy - he was Genius...
45 years later, yet the memory of Noah Cross still feels infinitely sinister...
There are Noah Cross' in every town and community...
I just discovered that the musician who played the trumpet in the “Chinatown” theme was named Uan Rasey, who died at the age of 90 in 2011. Beautiful trumpet playing!
Uan was also a great friend and teacher, and a truly noble human being. He spent much of his life using crutches to walk, and yet he did not waste time feeling sorry for himself, instead playing beautifully and working hard at his music. I understand he was a very good friend to my trombone teacher, and those students of his I know all say he was a wonderful teacher. We all loved Uan, and he just seemed a natural in every way.
Some of the best trumpet EVER!
Uan Rasey was the name of his player. And he was one of the best players EVER. Good Call !
Did you know he played this all sightread after two weeks off playing trumpet and going to a football camp, he had no idea what the music was going to be
Uan Rasey..a legend in film and jazz circles. Also one of the nicest men who ever lived.
Long slurred notes are the velvet sadness.
First time I heard it I thought it was Bobby Hackett, but he would have been too old at that point.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard - at once romantic and heartbreaking, and thus so fitting for this tragic mystery romance. Uan Rasey has the most beautiful tone I"ve ever heard and I am a big fan of horns -- he needs to be famous. Just absolutely beautiful.
It's truly haunting
My dad was a studio trumpeter in L.A., and Uan was a good friend of his. In fact, I think he was everyone's friend... Uan was that kind of person: unfailingly warm, kind and positive. He had polio as a child and spent most of his life on crutches, but it didn't affect his attitude or his music one bit. He was a remarkable guy.
@@zeppy13131 I keep hearing this over and over not only an amazing trumpet player but a truly lovely guy who was helpful to anyone.
Still my favorite movie, everything in it is just perfect, acting, story, dialogue, costumes, production design, and of course the music, just fantastic!
Some music just leaves a hole where your heart should be.
Well said.
Yet at the same time it fills my heart with awe that something like this was actually made by someone
Or where your eye should be
And Soul....
I can't get enough of this tune
+Robert Piwonka It goes right through me . It touches my soul .
It’s too short by about…. 17 hours
I'll never stop watching this film. The soundtrack is simply haunting. God I love this movie.
I don't know if this soundtrack ever won an Oscar, but if not, it's a crime! Such a beautiful and touching track from a phenomenal movie!
It lost to Nina rota for godfather
If ever there was a time to award 2 Oscars
Unfortunately this film and it’s incredible soundtrack were flattened by the “Godfather Part 2” juggernaut in 174. There is no justice in the world.
so beautiful, so heartbreakingly beautiful
tony b ...yes, it is. Peace and love.🎶🎶🎶
Yes, goodness.
Featuring the great Uan Rasey one of the greatest session trumpeters you never heard of...
Just love the jazz scores they played in these 70s classic films...... they had some in Klute (1971) and Kansas City Bomber (1972). The tunes will make ya cry.....
The kind of music that arouses emotion to the max - superb trumpet play.
Listen to that Trumpet , I never get tired of this piece , simply perfection . The great Uan Rasey lead trumpeter for MGM studios
It brings back haunting memories of what might have been, what could have been, and what should have been!
"Chinatown" is a supreme masterpiece. Easily one of the top 5 greatest films ever made in all of cinema history. "Chinatown" is almost too real. And here's a secret truth about "Chinatown": it actually deeply connects to "Rosemary's Baby". When you understand that "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" are essentially about the same thing you understand what Polanski's art is exposing. It's the same dark depths of power and nihilism, the same gradual trip of almost innocent disbelief down the rabbit hole into the other world behind the world, the Jungian Shadow acted out in reality, a realm of almost surrealistic horror, too evil and grotesque to fathom until it's too late. The violations of trust, the shattering of faith and good will, the nightmare that lurks just below the thin veil of normalcy, the psychopaths and the webs they weave... they can be anybody, even the people closest to you, who suddenly become distrustful. Those harmless friendly old nextdoor neighbors, your struggling actor husband who wants so badly to make it in the world, a woman you meet almost by greater destiny whom you fall in love with and seek to help and protect until you find out her hidden truths. Who can be trusted? What really goes on behind the scenes when we're not looking? And is there any point in the end? Polanski doesn't just capture the nature of ordinary life, he captures the secrets of life that only get discovered when one wanders too close to the edge. Polanski's films are about monstrous conspiracies, rooted in pure evil that cannot even be humanized or explained because it hides in the shadows. The final scene of "Chinatown" is one of the most horrifying, disturbing, pessimistic, haunting scenes in cinema history. Like "Rosemary's Baby" it ends with an unrelenting look at the truth, finally exposed in a soul-eating nausea. The monsters remove their masks and their true faces underneath are too ugly to behold, yet they are witnessed regardless. In "Chinatown" it's ultimately an expressionist shout with nobody to hear, and it reverberates tragically out into eternity, like a cyclic awakening from a dream, the fatalistic endpoint of all roads of unknown destiny.
it can be explained. you said it yourself. it lies in the shadows. the shadow of the people, yourself. people get pushed, and that can end bad. the more pain you feel, no matter if you know it or not, the more you walk to the endge of the abyss. looking down, seeing others in the same state like you. or even worse. its bittersweet, and hell.
ps: i like your text. very beautyful and moving.
Barry Norman is not dead.
He's a lot like Will Smith, really screwed up childhood came back to haunt them professionally and socially. Polanski was a great director in his prime.
This is one of the best pieces of cinematic critique I’ve ever read.
Every filmmaker and critic should read this.
You should forward to Polanski’s, Towne’s and Nicholson’s agents.
"The Pianist" and "The Death And The Maiden" are obvious additions to the list of one of the greatest directors ever (along with Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese). Intelligent drama or even comedy rarely if ever means happy endings, 'cause there always will be difference between adult fiction and fairytales (Top Gun! Die Hard! etc).
Yes, yes, the trumpet. But those violins! Wow.
Just saw this for the first time tonight. Blown away.
classic movie still holds up to this day
Wonderful music! I always picture Jack Nicholson, Faye Runaway in that great movie every time I hear this song. Jerry Goldsmith really came through on this! Bravo!
Just os haunting, beautiful, nuanced, the perfect bridge between the fleeting moments of love and happiness... they just don't make 'em like this anymore.
Uan Rasey, one of the greatest trumpet players ever!
How he captured musically Los Angeles, noir, the period, etc. is really something.
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Damn I luuuuuuv this! The feelings of nostalgia it brings out are intense! Almost brings me to tears.
Amazing
1 dislike?! But how?!
Forget it, it's Chinatown.
Some folk are dyslexic; they think the icon says "Dis I Like."
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@@FilAmFan Very cute!
Exactly. The TH-cam comments section: Forget it, Jake.
Why even concern yourself with how many dislikes there are? Kids, and some older folk that should know better, go scrolling through videos disliking everything they see. Pay them no mind, I say.
I cannot think of a finer movie of its kind: the ultimate film noir accompanied by GREAT acting and the finest musical score (a score that bespeaks the nature of the film). It is PURE INSANITY that this picture did NOT win BEST PICTURE -- way better than GODFATHER PART II which wasn't a bad picture.
i first heard this at the end of a simpsons episode, and have yet to see the film chinatown. its a sound that has been in my mind for as long as i can remember. easily the most beautiful piece of music to have graced my ears. the trumpet is absurd. the strings manipulate your mind.
One of the Best songs Ever!
❤❤❤❤❤
Incredible music. Uan Rasey is prue brilliance. The art of "chill" and "haunting" beyond description.
The most fascinating and the most beautiful musical composition that we did for a noir film (with a very particular atmosphere) in all the history of the cinema, especially this short passage with the sax and piano ballad, the main theme is Pure Genius we find ourselves transported into the violent and dark atmosphere of these 1920s, chaotic like the private office that tries to get laid and to scrape crumbs in the process and get by without too much breakage.
The 1930s pls, Jake drives a ´35 Ford V8 !
This haunting theme was so well written and well mixed into the film that until I bought the album I couldn't quite recall the music just walking out of the theater.
Ah yes, that wonderful, sensual trumpet solo by the late Great Uan Rasey! Such a marvelous trumpet sound!
Such a moving piece of music, perfection, always makes me want to cry so sad.
This is a perfect score.
Jerry Goldsmith is always sorta pitted as a runner up for Hollywood's greatest composer next to Johnny Williams, but with this it supersedes Williams sound. He couldn't have done it better if he tried.
This is reflective of the period, noir yet is ethereal and timeless. Its music that represents an emotion.
He's so much more versatile then Williams and I'm a big John Williams fan. Although it's mostly comparing apples to oranges, if anyone listens to Goldsmith's work over the entirety of his career, he's the better composer. Hands down IMO. His arrangements are more complex, experimental and innovative.
The ending remains to be one of the most shocking, horrifying, and stomach-sinking scenes in cinema history.
Agreed
Mr. Polanski changed that final scene the night prior to filming. Originally Ms. Dunaway’s character shoots & kills her rapist father,,it rainstorms ending the drought and she & the Jake character lives happily ever after.
@@kingkootsa163 That would have been a good ending, yet this one I feel is much more impactful due to how shocking it was.
not only its more shocking but its actually more realistic most of these things happen now and more back in the day but nirmally these kind of situations never see tye light of day in the news
Very few competitors: "On The Beach" (1959), "Fail-Safe" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Witchfinder General" (1968), "Don't Look Now" (1973), "The Wicker Man" (1973), "The Parallax View" (1974), "The Stepford Wives" (1975)... These came to mind atm.
My favorite movie and favorite move theme. Thanks for sharing.
What beautiful music for a fantastic movie !
The most beautiful theme music. Jerry Goldsmith was a genius.
Best movie ever. Hands down.
This lost to The Godfather Part II but in retrospect I enjoyed this slightly better. That being said The Godfather Part II was the better film.
Adnan Khan Enjoy your opinion, my friend.
I like both films tremendously and I enjoyed Chinatown better on my first watch but if I put the two movies side by side, The Godfather Part II had awesome acting, especially from John Cazale, who wasn't nominated for an Oscar.
Adnan Khan Enjoy your opinion.
Now that I think of it, Chinatown had a better story and atmosphere, but The Godfather Part II had better acting
It took me such a long time to find a recording of this. This piece is so beautiful and haunting. Well done.
I agree...so heartbreaking...
Um dos melhores clássicos do cinema. Adoro esse filme.
The best mystery film of all time
Beautiful love theme for a superior movie.
This is not just music, this is Uan Rasey, one of the most amazing trumpet players, who makes all of us feel what we feel!
PS He contracted polio as a child and spent his career playing trumpet while using crutches.
Check him out people!
Mr. Goldsmith, the genius. Thank you for this lovely music.
This score is, of course, brilliant and L.A. Confidential is a great companion piece.
Perfect reverb. Full beautiful orchestration.
No matter how many times I listen to this music, I never get tired of it. It is so beautiful and mesmerizing. Always puts you in a great state of mind!🎶
That piano pierces through everything else that makes the song feel soft and dream-like. It makes it something more than just a traditional noir theme.
Both movie and melody are also on my TOP 10 list
One of the best movie themes for one of the best movies ever made. Uan Rasey's trumpet play is among the best EVER!
The most beautiful movie theme ever created. I want to rerun it constantly.🐶🐱🐰
Uan Rasey....you still live on and will forever.
Sums up all the evil and the hurt we get from life and then crumples me into a ball as I linger in loneliness, foregoing the thought that someone special could take it all away but no, no the shadows won't go and we just have to cry. :(
This and the score from Taxi Driver are brilliant pieces of music that I can listen to over and over again. IMO two of the very very best film themes.
Gracias, gracias, gracias. Considero que este es uno de los temas musicales de cine más conmovedores y que más se ajustan al film que representan. El clima de enorme melancolía que genera es increíble. Gran creación de Jerry Goldsmith. Por otra parte, la interpretación del trompetista Uan Rasey es, simplemente... extraordinaria. Gracias, muchas gracias por este video. Saludos desde Argentina.
+Carlos Romero Estoy totalmente de acuerdo
+Ralph Dratman ¡Qué bueno encontrar gente con tu sensibilidad Ralph!, me alegro que coincidamos en el gusto por este maravilloso tema y su interpretación. ¡Ah!, y de paso te comento que tu apellido (aunque distinto) me recordó al personaje protagonista de un famoso cuento de Jorge Luis Borges ("El Sur"); el personaje se llamaba Juan Dahlmann. Saludos
Muchas gracias, Carlos. ¡Voy a buscar ese cuento!
I’ve heard quite a few covers of this song and it’s always so emotionally resonant, just a beautiful piece of music. It doesn’t matter who plays it, the notes still hold the same power.
I remember I had to play this for trumpet, and I listened to this music before watching the film. I thought the music was extremely beautiful and peaceful and I thought this was for a happy scene. After watching the movie, this music always gives me the chills.
Just great and never reached again!
Perfection
Mr. Goldsmith, você foi e sempre será o máximo. Um dos grandes gênios da música do século XX.
2022 and still listening to this absolute banger
Godfather, Taxi driver and Chinatown my personal best bgm
This sweet sickness, great broken heart melody
Tears for so many feelings and memories this beautiful theme evokes in me
One of the most beautiful soundtracks! Thanks!!!
Uan Rasey,,,, What a Sound,,,, and the movie? ,,,, Phew! Seen it many times,,, it only gets better,,,,,,,
I never get tired of this piece
Tonight I worked up the courage to ask out a great friend of mine after not having seen her for a while. We held each others' hands and she told me that, in my absence, she had been accepted to a school out-of-state. I was okay until I got to my car and this track played on my CD. I had to cry just a little bit after that.
I feel you on that.....
Forget it. It's chinatown
I know the feeling bro. It's okay.
People come and go dude. Its the rule of life
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This was a great movie
Beautiful song... Takes me so far and deep
Jerry Goldsmith is amazing, but also hats off to Uan Rasey, the greatest Hollywood trumpet player of all time.
Andre Previn called him Hollywood’s best player ever.
Smooth relaxing and nice low tone theme from maybe the best film ever
One of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard, regardless of whether or not it's from a film. Masterfully well done.
Love it.....I wish the music lasted forever.
This, Taxi driver and Schildler's List are the finest title tracks of all time
"SHE'S JUST NO DAM GOOD MR. GITTIES . WHAT CAN I SAY KID. WHEN YOUR RIGHT YOUR RIGHT. AND YOUR RIGHT. ""
Evocative theme. Evocative film.
What Great Music from Jerry Goldsmith really miss his music
a great sounndtrack, excelent
I damn near lost my nose last night. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still say you're hiding something.
Ich kann diese Theme von Chinatown hoch und runter hören. Einfach wundervoll diese stimmungsvolle Musik.
Listening in 2020. Memories of last century 40's, recreated in the 90's
"She won't live, but then again, who does?? Probably seen this work of art 20 times and if I see it another 20 I'll always think to myself, maybe this time she drives off to a better life for her and her daughter. Wow, that is the power of truly great cinema. Maestro Goldsmith's theme captures the beauty, sadness and ultimately the futile desolation of those trapped in the world of Chinatown.
and faye dunaway as usual stunning in this film.