The runaway train is a symbol of human life - out of control and heading into oblivion as fast as its motor can carry it. I guess that's what makes Manny and the Warden's last moments so haunting. One man is chained to it in helpless anger, and the other rides it to the end with literally open arms. The roles are reversed: the warden has become the prisoner, and the prisoner a free man.
Yes, you can apply that scene to so many actual situations in life! Becoming free while others know they can no longer touch you and the anger that can build in them!
It's very moving until you take a step back and think about how utterly stupid the protagonists are and how ridiculous the entire premise of the movie is. I can't help but feel like that movie is what happens when a foreign filmmaker decides he wants to satirize Hollywood high concept movies and is forced to do it as artfully as possible by his sensibilities.
joekallO I'm sorry but I strongly disagree! This film was the absolute best movie of Jon Voight's career, he masterfully plays Oscar Manheim, a convicted murderer tormented by evil warden Ranken played by John P. Ryan. Manheim takes Ranken down for his last ride in the speeding deathtrap train. THIS was, by far, the most masterful performance by Jon Voight, ever!
How died a person tells what stuff was made of that person. Vivaldi composed this 'Gloria' for Jesus Resurrection, like Manny who was a killer and worst than animal, a human! But, at the end, he decided to save two lives and face his fate fearlessly! Legendary film maker, Akira Kurosawa's humanism was deeply embedded in this unforgettable movie. Thank you, Sensei Kurosawa, director Andrei Konchalovsky and Jon Voight's brillant act!
Manny came to a realisation, Rankin would never let him go, and would chase him all over the world. After everything Rankin had done to him he was tired and just thought fuck it, if I’m going you’re going with me. I’m not going to run from you, I’ll just drag you to hell with me. He then uncoupled the cars and started his journey.
"MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN! MANNY GOD DAMN IT, SHUT DOWN, MANNY! MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN IS YOU GOT TO DO, MANNY!" "He knows what he wants to do." Such a beautiful and sad ending
I'll never forget seeing this for the first time on movie night with my family as a kid. To this day it sticks out as a classic. This was the most HAUNTING ending song and scene I've ever seen my 44 years on this Earth (and I've seen "the 1001 you need to see before you die" and then some. 'Manny' standing on top of that speeding train engine, riding to his certain death is the hardest (gangsta or epic) scene of a character EVER! Jon Voight's performance was legendary.
This composition was brilliantly chosen and arranged for its purpose in the film. This film is a singularity. There aren't enough words to describe how the sum of its parts exceeds the whole. It just magnificently "works" on both a grand and intimate scale. Kudos to Golan and Globus for giving Konchalovsky the artistic freedom to make this. Producers and focus groups make horrible directors. This film is a product of artistic and physical courage. Yes, that is a real stuntman being dragged under a real train. See the documentary on the making of this film. This film could not be made today. Manny is best understood by real-world survivors of physical and existential horror. There is an opportunity to embrace life and death as bravely as he did.
I would have never guessed it was from Vivaldi, even in a thousand years...I am ashamed to admit that up until some years ago, Vivaldi was just the composer of the Four Seasons
Words just cannot, and will not, describe how this song affects some of us. This song is 7th dimensional, utterly surreal. This song hasn't got any understandable meaning, yet all the meaning there ever was. I can't even understand what I just wrote..
I'm not a particularly religious man but this scene is gripping and spiritual. A very tough individual meeting Death head on without fear or regret. Something amazing about that we will all wish to be like.
Of all the interpretations of this music I've heard over the years - and goodness knows there have been many - this one seems to be the most evocative, most haunting; having the most lasting effect on my consciousness. I would presume it had the same effect on the director when he first heard this interpretation; which was why he employed it in this great film. Runaway Train was one of the very best films of the 1980s; and certainly the best acting performance of John Voight's career (in my opinion).
Thank you Adrian, "having the most lasting effect on my consciousness". That will stay with me. I'd probably enjoy having a few glasses of wine in NYC with the people on this thread, then going to watch this all again, perhaps in empty church.
Completely agree... 80s has genre and pop culture classics like the Thing, Terminator, Aliens, Scarface, Do The Right Thing, etc. But none of them hit me like Runaway Train. Not even Amadeus to be honest. (Another masterpiece)
This was one of the most forceful and powerful films of Jon Voight's career! His portrayal of Manny is riveting as that first of a brutal individual who becomes a determined man out to break the chains from an oppressive sadist like Warden Rankin and winds up on a final ride to death. Missrs. Jones and Kurasawa pulled this off brilliantly in both film and music score.
The most beautiful things have the fewest views... I'd re-listened to this a dozen times over the last 5 years. Never more than 10000 views. Life is maddening. How strange that the truest expressions of beauty and grace might be happening in passing, on a side street somewhere being passed over by the majority. Great Work Trevor and Vivaldi.
And I just played it again having not heard it for a while. Its like a searing heat. The beauty is crippling, so sharp, so vacant, so lost, so total. Fuck this thing owns me. God help us all.
Thank you Hank. Yes. Beyond Money. I'm sitting here a year later at the office early, trying to wake up with some music. And here I am again. Caught up in this, again. Gladly. Happily. One wonders if the arts might be the way to bridge gaps between the great nations. The authors are due gratitude yet again but so is "The USSR Academic Russian Chorus & The Moscow Conservatoire Students Orchestra". Spasibo....
Awesome movie, I watched it as kid because I was obsessed with trains and railroads. I've not seen the whole thing in years, think I still have it on VHS. Two of the most powerful characters in my opinion is Manny and the locomotive.
Back in 1985 when I saw this movie, This music caught my ear. It was at the end of the movie as everybody on the train was about to meet their maker. But as the credits were rolling, I waited to see who was responsible for the music, I swear I remember it saying that it was performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, not Trevor Jones.
Not only is this a uniquely moving piece, the timing of the music was selected perfectly in the film to achieve great effect, just after manny's tortured soul presents a great philisophical question, "Win, Lose, what's the difference?", at the same time warden Rankine seems to accept his fate is sealed. The music even has a little flourish of optimism, just as Buck and the girl are uncoupled from the doomed engine.
The film was on again last week in the U.K. so l finally looked up the music as l meant to last time l saw it. And funnily enough l first listened to it on here while driving my truck down the A10 in Norfolk through a snowstorm. It was quite surreal & l was entranced.
It is a brave, original and honest exploration of the idea of a Christ of freedom, who for the sake of the 'souls in prison' chooses his own death as the price of the final conquest of the great denier of the sacred humanity of those who Immanuel ("Manny") represents and champions. Assuming the posture of the triumphant crucified Christ figure of Anglican icons, Manny rides resolutely through the pain of freezing isolation carrying the 'devil' to his doom, and ending his dominion over the prison. It works. Pacem in terra through the courage and dignity of the free man who has surrendered everything that would hold him back in order to execute the elimination of the power which divides us in order by fear to rule us. Glorious humanist redemption.
To survive the breakup, I became a robot. I went to the office, came home, cleaned the litter box, worked out, ate out, came back to the same haunted apartment. TV was a noise. Friends meant well. But she'd never really been there .. so she had no reason to make an appearance now, with all of her family empowering her narcissistic gallop. The misery of my inexplicable loss became a water torture drip into the same raw wound .. an absence that the bright spring did nothing to heal. Until she decided she'd play the game of reconciling. That's when it got almost intolerable. She'd "try again" .. and even as I paid for the dinners, the day trips, I could tell it was a killing of time for her. I knew her too well and I watched. It wasn't a hope. It was hell. Hollow were her agenda ridden smiles as I asked her to play. She readily agreed and dignifiedly rotated in and out of counseling offices, confident she was doing "the work" .. But I had to give it the shot. I'm sure her boyfriend was generous .. the same way Manny's warden was. And when we kissed after a Rebuild "date", a full blown lip locking and lingering one, somehow falling into it outside a pool hall, the Other was there. She was a succubus seeking life force, an emotional parasite who enjoyed her power over vulnerability. I could almost feel her reaching for my fly. It was all biological and emotional plumbing for her since her disease had convinced her she was a victim .. even when all the friends we once had shook their heads in sad bewilderment. Because she was never wrong. Ever. The taste of that defiling moment was cancer frosted with her lipstick. Something I don't ever want to recollect again. But remember this: even when you know the misery will pass, the lingering is where you find out you live or die. That lingering was a frigid galestorm where my loss of vision was almost complete.
You've all missed the point do they both die or not? this is an open-ended question this is the whole point of the film. doe's Manny survive or what?. Merlin.
The locomotive Manny and Ranken were on had a wide-open-throttle and was on a dead-end track. 220 tons of steel derailing at high speed is certain death. Buck and Sara survived.
Wielka muzyka,wielki film
" Not animal, human." this is the best line of the movie.
The runaway train is a symbol of human life - out of control and heading into oblivion as fast as its motor can carry it. I guess that's what makes Manny and the Warden's last moments so haunting. One man is chained to it in helpless anger, and the other rides it to the end with literally open arms. The roles are reversed: the warden has become the prisoner, and the prisoner a free man.
Yes, you can apply that scene to so many actual situations in life!
Becoming free while others know they can no longer touch you and the anger that can build in them!
And no oscar for this movie. Shame Hollywood
I never forget his sobbing... and manny's freedom...last scene...
Great film by Andrey Konchalovskiy
Goosebumps every time. This piece really makes the film and belongs into this incredible masterpiece. One of the most underrated films ever!!!
I agree with every word you said.
Très belle, simphonie, comme le film, excellent.
I cannot listen to this without crying. It was the soundtrack to my soul during the darkest period of my life.
I know the feeling brother.
"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity."
"But I know none, and therefore am no beast." -- RICHARD III
It's very moving until you take a step back and think about how utterly stupid the protagonists are and how ridiculous the entire premise of the movie is.
I can't help but feel like that movie is what happens when a foreign filmmaker decides he wants to satirize Hollywood high concept movies and is forced to do it as artfully as possible by his sensibilities.
joekallO I'm sorry but I strongly disagree! This film was the absolute best movie of Jon Voight's career, he masterfully plays Oscar Manheim, a convicted murderer tormented by evil warden Ranken played by John P. Ryan. Manheim takes Ranken down for his last ride in the speeding deathtrap train. THIS was, by far, the most masterful performance by Jon Voight, ever!
One of the best things about the film besides Jon Voights performance is the haunting music score. It gets me everything I hear it.
Wonderful 😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤music and composer
This moves me to tears, so haunting
How died a person tells what stuff was made of that person. Vivaldi composed this 'Gloria' for Jesus Resurrection, like Manny who was a killer and worst than animal, a human! But, at the end, he decided to save two lives and face his fate fearlessly! Legendary film maker, Akira Kurosawa's humanism was deeply embedded in this unforgettable movie. Thank you, Sensei Kurosawa, director Andrei Konchalovsky and Jon Voight's brillant act!
Alfred Song You forgot to mention Eric Roberts, John P. Ryan and Rebecca DeMornay. They were all exceptional!
Thank you Alfred for your amazing words ! Indeed one of the most deepest movies revealing human nature .
Manny came to a realisation, Rankin would never let him go, and would chase him all over the world. After everything Rankin had done to him he was tired and just thought fuck it, if I’m going you’re going with me. I’m not going to run from you, I’ll just drag you to hell with me. He then uncoupled the cars and started his journey.
Manny is like the train. Absolutely relentless.
This movie is the best on all levels .... just cant make them today with such powerful meaning and music to go with it
And film , direction and actors
"MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN! MANNY GOD DAMN IT, SHUT DOWN, MANNY! MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN IS YOU GOT TO DO, MANNY!"
"He knows what he wants to do."
Such a beautiful and sad ending
Alas he did not want to be the bad...
I'll never forget seeing this for the first time on movie night with my family as a kid. To this day it sticks out as a classic. This was the most HAUNTING ending song and scene I've ever seen my 44 years on this Earth (and I've seen "the 1001 you need to see before you die" and then some. 'Manny' standing on top of that speeding train engine, riding to his certain death is the hardest (gangsta or epic) scene of a character EVER! Jon Voight's performance was legendary.
This composition was brilliantly chosen and arranged for its purpose in the film. This film is a singularity. There aren't enough words to describe how the sum of its parts exceeds the whole. It just magnificently "works" on both a grand and intimate scale.
Kudos to Golan and Globus for giving Konchalovsky the artistic freedom to make this. Producers and focus groups make horrible directors. This film is a product of artistic and physical courage. Yes, that is a real stuntman being dragged under a real train. See the documentary on the making of this film. This film could not be made today.
Manny is best understood by real-world survivors of physical and existential horror. There is an opportunity to embrace life and death as bravely as he did.
Just came here after listening to Andromeda.
Vivaldi, a wonderful composer!
I would have never guessed it was from Vivaldi, even in a thousand years...I am ashamed to admit that up until some years ago, Vivaldi was just the composer of the Four Seasons
Vivaldi is a Rock Star
This is a master piece even Max Richter wouldn't touch as it's perfection could never be surpassed and never will plus it's a great film.
Yes
Can anyone imagine being on top of that train!
Words just cannot, and will not, describe how this song affects some of us. This song is 7th dimensional, utterly surreal. This song hasn't got any understandable meaning, yet all the meaning there ever was.
I can't even understand what I just wrote..
masterpiece by Vivaldi,superbly arranged by Trevor Jones.....& the magnificent voices of the above.......
I'm not a particularly religious man but this scene is gripping and spiritual. A very tough individual meeting Death head on without fear or regret. Something amazing about that we will all wish to be like.
Of all the interpretations of this music I've heard over the years - and goodness knows there have been many - this one seems to be the most evocative, most haunting; having the most lasting effect on my consciousness. I would presume it had the same effect on the director when he first heard this interpretation; which was why he employed it in this great film. Runaway Train was one of the very best films of the 1980s; and certainly the best acting performance of John Voight's career (in my opinion).
Thank you Adrian, "having the most lasting effect on my consciousness". That will stay with me. I'd probably enjoy having a few glasses of wine in NYC with the people on this thread, then going to watch this all again, perhaps in empty church.
Completely agree... 80s has genre and pop culture classics like the Thing, Terminator, Aliens, Scarface, Do The Right Thing, etc. But none of them hit me like Runaway Train. Not even Amadeus to be honest. (Another masterpiece)
He did it. He did it.
This was one of the most forceful and powerful films of Jon Voight's career! His portrayal of Manny is riveting as that first of a brutal individual who becomes a determined man out to break the chains from an oppressive sadist like Warden Rankin and winds up on a final ride to death. Missrs. Jones and Kurasawa pulled this off brilliantly in both film and music score.
The most beautiful things have the fewest views... I'd re-listened to this a dozen times over the last 5 years. Never more than 10000 views. Life is maddening. How strange that the truest expressions of beauty and grace might be happening in passing, on a side street somewhere being passed over by the majority. Great Work Trevor and Vivaldi.
Thanks for your comment
And I just played it again having not heard it for a while. Its like a searing heat. The beauty is crippling, so sharp, so vacant, so lost, so total. Fuck this thing owns me. God help us all.
Thank you Hank. Yes. Beyond Money. I'm sitting here a year later at the office early, trying to wake up with some music. And here I am again. Caught up in this, again. Gladly. Happily. One wonders if the arts might be the way to bridge gaps between the great nations. The authors are due gratitude yet again but so is "The USSR Academic Russian Chorus & The Moscow Conservatoire Students Orchestra". Spasibo....
I don't like crowds anyway just family and a few good friends.
@@coolrog7564 TRUTH
This music will exist even after the humans
I think that some ghosts are singing here.
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This is powerful music classic
Only a select few of us can hear the conversation 😊
So haunting - great movie - we The Retro Cinema just podcasted it. Everything is perfect especially Trevor Jones score!
Awesome movie, I watched it as kid because I was obsessed with trains and railroads. I've not seen the whole thing in years, think I still have it on VHS. Two of the most powerful characters in my opinion is Manny and the locomotive.
Kurosawa once said "we film makers are fools". The way this great masterpiece has been underrated speaks volumes of Kurosawa's saying.
the essence of music
When my time comes I will take my
Last ride with this music God bless
Vivaldi amen
Beautiful piece of music. I've just discovered it by watching the movie. This seems to be the best and most haunting version. Hallelujah
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Back in 1985 when I saw this movie, This music caught my ear. It was at the end of the movie as everybody on the train was about to meet their maker. But as the credits were rolling, I waited to see who was responsible for the music, I swear I remember it saying that it was performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, not Trevor Jones.
USSR Academic Russian Choir* &Moscow Conservatoire Students' Orchestra*Gloria
Written-By - Antonio Vivaldi
Trevor Jones may have been involved with the arrangement but the performance was provided by the above.
+Don Lanteigne The music is haunting
Trevor Jones laid some heavy Moog to add a sense of impending doom. Not sure if he re-arranged it a little as well.
Superb (Vivaldi) in One of the Greatest Movies of All Times ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Not only is this a uniquely moving piece, the timing of the music was selected perfectly in the film to achieve great effect, just after manny's tortured soul presents a great philisophical question, "Win, Lose, what's the difference?", at the same time warden Rankine seems to accept his fate is sealed. The music even has a little flourish of optimism, just as Buck and the girl are uncoupled from the doomed engine.
i'll never forget this music and this movie. Merci beaucoup pour l'upload!
Thank you for upload!
I saw the film first run in our local theater, got the DVD and I am an avid collector of soundtracks. Still looking for this.
The film was on again last week in the U.K. so l finally looked up the music as l meant to last time l saw it. And funnily enough l first listened to it on here while driving my truck down the A10 in Norfolk through a snowstorm. It was quite surreal & l was entranced.
Tre most powerfully metaphoric film ever, forged my youth.
Thanks for uploading this. Probably the best instance of this movement ever. Truly haunting.
Da Vivaldi a Sfera Ebbasta.
Che fine che abbiamo fatto
Great movie 🎥
so beautiful
tan hermosamente triste.........la incertidumbre del ser y su evolución hacia el cosmos............. divina toca zonas muy sensibles y siempre lloro
A Master Piece❤
“MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN! MANNY, GODDAMMIT! SHUT IT DOWN, MANNY! MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN! THAT’S ALL YOU GOTTA DO! MANNY!”
Truly amazing.
Masterpiece
One of my best film and best Score n!n
The best music ever?
When death is coming, you start hear your adagio playing inside.
It is a brave, original and honest exploration of the idea of a Christ of freedom, who for the sake of the 'souls in prison' chooses his own death as the price of the final conquest of the great denier of the sacred humanity of those who Immanuel ("Manny") represents and champions. Assuming the posture of the triumphant crucified Christ figure of Anglican icons, Manny rides resolutely through the pain of freezing isolation carrying the 'devil' to his doom, and ending his dominion over the prison. It works. Pacem in terra
through the courage and dignity of the free man who has surrendered everything that would hold him back in order to execute the elimination of the power which divides us in order by fear to rule us. Glorious humanist redemption.
I want this song for my funeral
I will listen while I committed suicide🥺
@@susanabritos317 don't do that. you matter so do the people who love you.
@@truckrobo147 thanks 🥺🥺🥺🥺
@@susanabritos317 anytime.
After World War 3.
The greatest music ever
Runaway Train - Soundtrack - Trevor Jones - Gloria In D Major - Et In Terra Pax. (HD) is my favorite Soundtrack !!!
:D
4/5/20 enjoying it 👽
MANNY! SHUT IT DOWN! MANNY!!
MANNY!!!! MANNY!!! SHUT IT DOWN, GODDAMIT THAT'S ALL YA GOTTA DO!!!!
And peace to His people on earth
great bass really upset the neighbours.
MANNY!!! MANNY!! MANNY GODDAMMIT SHUT IT DOWN MANNY!!!!MANNY SHUT IT DOWN THATS ALL YOU GOTTA DO!!!! MANNY!!!!
How can a Rated R movie from such a crappy studio like Cannon break and touch someone feelings
This is really epic and sad
Vivaldi. Gloria.
ESCAPE AND FREEDOM
MAAAAAANYYYYY !!!! SHUT IT DOWN !! ITS ALL YOU GOTTA DO !! MANYYY GODDAMN IT ! SUT IT DOWN !!
Faut-il comprendre qu'on n'est jamais libre ?
Thousand yard stare.......
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Vivaldi's glory will be in D major, but this part is in minor mode
To survive the breakup, I became a robot. I went to the office, came home, cleaned the litter box, worked out, ate out, came back to the same haunted apartment. TV was a noise. Friends meant well. But she'd never really been there .. so she had no reason to make an appearance now, with all of her family empowering her narcissistic gallop. The misery of my inexplicable loss became a water torture drip into the same raw wound .. an absence that the bright spring did nothing to heal.
Until she decided she'd play the game of reconciling. That's when it got almost intolerable.
She'd "try again" .. and even as I paid for the dinners, the day trips, I could tell it was a killing of time for her. I knew her too well and I watched. It wasn't a hope. It was hell. Hollow were her agenda ridden smiles as I asked her to play. She readily agreed and dignifiedly rotated in and out of counseling offices, confident she was doing "the work" .. But I had to give it the shot. I'm sure her boyfriend was generous .. the same way Manny's warden was.
And when we kissed after a Rebuild "date", a full blown lip locking and lingering one, somehow falling into it outside a pool hall, the Other was there. She was a succubus seeking life force, an emotional parasite who enjoyed her power over vulnerability. I could almost feel her reaching for my fly. It was all biological and emotional plumbing for her since her disease had convinced her she was a victim .. even when all the friends we once had shook their heads in sad bewilderment. Because she was never wrong. Ever.
The taste of that defiling moment was cancer frosted with her lipstick. Something I don't ever want to recollect again.
But remember this: even when you know the misery will pass, the lingering is where you find out you live or die. That lingering was a frigid galestorm where my loss of vision was almost complete.
That, right there, is relatable
If im not mistaken thise is the end where manny uncuples the other 3 units and saved the other 2 and kils him self and some on els
Runaway Train yes
When my dad tells me that I'm grounded, *plays this song*
Runaway Train - Soundtrack - Gloria In D Major - Et In Terra Pax. [HD].
Can you find any more songs from this movie?
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Master music
How no
Je trouve pas le film COMPLET en VF.... 👎
God's music 😇
As if 3 people gave it the thumbs down.
You've all missed the point do they both die or not? this is an open-ended question this is the whole point of the film. doe's Manny survive or what?. Merlin.
Oh, I 'm sure they both die.
No the point is Manny dies a free man and his arch enemy dies a captive.Win lose what's the difference we all die come what may.
The locomotive Manny and Ranken were on had a wide-open-throttle and was on a dead-end track. 220 tons of steel derailing at high speed is certain death. Buck and Sara survived.
Great movie fantastic music