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MACDIDIMAU
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009 14:37 pm
Lawrence of Arabia
Three Stooges
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Post subject: Re: Movie Themes You recognize Instantly
Posted: 06 Nov 2009 18:25 pm
All of the above , plus

Scarface
Apocalypse Now
The day the earth stood still -1
Star Trek
Top Gun
Goldfinger
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Post subject: Re: Movie Themes You recognize Instantly
Posted: 06 Nov 2009 18:47 pm
Just about anything by John Williams from the 70s and 80s:

Jaws
Star Wars
Superman
Raiders/Indy
ET

Back to the Future
Forrest Gump
Godfather
STar Trek II
Gone with the Wind
Psycho
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009 22:48 pm
Unfortunately, one of the reasons certain movie themes are so recognizable is because they're played every time the movie is mentioned, either on Oscar night, or in highlight shows.

That's why I nearly ran screaming from the theatre long before the end of "Close Encounters of the Maddening Five Chords Kind", hearing that riff repeated nonstop for the last hour.

For that reason, I've never seen "Chariots of Fire" because that danged song, with the slo-mo footage of the runners on the beach, is in my head like the "It's a Small World" song from Disneyland.

One happy exception is the laconic, evocative guitar chords of my beloved "Brokeback Mountain" --- suggesting that in those wide open spaces you have all the time in the world to your lonely selves ---, which reach an emotional crescendo perfectly timed with the end credits. Cue sobbing sounds of audience.

At the Oscars and Golden Globes, I never tired of hearing that familiar theme. However, I DID get tired, very quickly, of Larry McMurtrys utter geekdom.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 05:22 am
Going Home - the theme from Local Hero
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Post subject: Re: Movie Themes You recognize Instantly
Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:28 am
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Exorcist
Hud
Halloween
Sorceror
The Long Good Friday
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 16:03 pm

Knockando wrote

Going Home - the theme from Local Hero


WOW...how did I let that one slip by?

One of the alltime great movie scores with final credits worth sitting through. Capped off by a final shot and instrumental bed over the final credits by Mark Knopfler...the only time I ever heard bagpipes in a song I absolutely loved.

Whenever I've lost faith in the human race, I log on to Netflix and rent either "Local Hero" or "Breaking Away". It's much cheaper and happier than psychotherapy.

Another movie theme that took me away to another place was the closing credits song "Feel Flows" by The Beach Boys, over the end of the wonderful "Almost Famous". Despite being a Beach Boys buff for 40 years, I'd never heard "Feel Flows" until then. Hearing it wafting through the theatre in Dolby Surround was an almost otherworldly experience.

Fun fact about "Almost Famous": The good-looking, mustachioed band member who befriends the young Rolling Stone writer is Billy Crudup, the voice behind the MasterCard "Priceless" commercials.
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Posted: 11 Nov 2009 00:20 am
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:26 am

DonPat wrote

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly


You would have loved to have been at the Hollywood Bowl this past summer. Ennio Morricone was there to lead his orchestra in performing his movie themes, including his "spaghetti westerns" music, along with "Days of Heaven"; "The Untouchables"; "Two Mules For Sister Sara", etc..

I was only 14 when I saw "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" at the old North Drive-In in STL, and even though at that age I hated westerns, I LOVED that music.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:18 am
Holy moly! There are so many that I couldn't list them all!
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Post subject: Re: Movie Themes You recognize Instantly
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 06:26 am
Thanks to ClarkKimble I got a reminder -

The Third Man

Zorba the Greek
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Post subject: Re: Movie Themes You recognize Instantly
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:44 pm
Meatballs
Vision Quest (Journey's "Only the Young")
The Breakfast Club
Saturday Night Fever

Somebody wrote James Bond Theme, they use a different theme for each movie. Here are some of the more memorable...

1. Live and Let Die
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. View to a Kil
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