Du lourd très lourd puissant immense du génie film et musique incroyable 👍 c'est pas la nullité la puanteur les tocards d'aujourd'hui à vomir 👎. Dany 54 ans
0:01 After doing a quick Google search of "famous marathon runners of the 60s and 70s", I discovered that the footage at the beginning of the movie was of famous Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila (born August 7th, 1932 and died October 25th, 1973). He won a gold medal and set a world record while running barefoot at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and later bested his own record at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Sadly, he died too soon at the age of 41 due to a cerebral hemorrhage which was a complication related to his accident four years earlier. The more you know...
'Marathon Man' (1976) is such a great movie and Szell's theme at the 7:33 mark is particularly haunting both when escaped Auschwitz concentration camp Nazi dentist, Christian Szell (Sir Laurence Olivier), arrives at the airport in New York City from Argentina and then later when he meets up with U.S. government "The Division" agent, "Doc" Levy (Roy Scheider), the brother of Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman). The whole score is wonderfully atmospheric with unique and percussive orchestrations in the same vein as Jerry Goldsmith's score for 'The Planet of the Apes' (1968), various Dirty Harry scores by Lalo Schifrin, or Denny Zeitlin's score for 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978). It's truly riveting.
It's such a shame. It's as if the composers of today learnt nothing from those previous, or feel their approach is an improvement. I must say, I did enjoy the Soundtrack to "Jackie" by Mica Levi
My advise is also to read the novel. Before watching the movie. Quite difficult nowadays. :)
Thanks for the sharing.
Du lourd très lourd puissant immense du génie film et musique incroyable 👍 c'est pas la nullité la puanteur les tocards d'aujourd'hui à vomir 👎. Dany 54 ans
0:01 After doing a quick Google search of "famous marathon runners of the 60s and 70s", I discovered that the footage at the beginning of the movie was of famous Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila (born August 7th, 1932 and died October 25th, 1973). He won a gold medal and set a world record while running barefoot at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and later bested his own record at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
Sadly, he died too soon at the age of 41 due to a cerebral hemorrhage which was a complication related to his accident four years earlier.
The more you know...
'Marathon Man' (1976) is such a great movie and Szell's theme at the 7:33 mark is particularly haunting both when escaped Auschwitz concentration camp Nazi dentist, Christian Szell (Sir Laurence Olivier), arrives at the airport in New York City from Argentina and then later when he meets up with U.S. government "The Division" agent, "Doc" Levy (Roy Scheider), the brother of Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman).
The whole score is wonderfully atmospheric with unique and percussive orchestrations in the same vein as Jerry Goldsmith's score for 'The Planet of the Apes' (1968), various Dirty Harry scores by Lalo Schifrin, or Denny Zeitlin's score for 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978).
It's truly riveting.
Thanks for those comparisons you made. I'm currently listening to those you mentioned carefully one by one. They're amazing! Thank you!
We just don't hear daring, minimalist, stark, poignant, avant-garde scores like this anymore. It's become a lost art in many ways.
It's such a shame. It's as if the composers of today learnt nothing from those previous, or feel their approach is an improvement.
I must say, I did enjoy the Soundtrack to "Jackie" by Mica Levi
This piercing sound gives me chills even today. Scary movie. Slazinger, Small, Hoffman, Schneider, Nazi Schell, Martha Keller
Is It Safe?
Are you talking to me? Is what safe?
No
Not at all....
Can you add the time points to each piece please?
That’s luxury 😅
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Great story, acting music compared to superheroe rubbish made nowadays