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I completely understand this because I feel the exact same but with the track "Not What I Expected "
The soundtrack is pretty good, I hope they release an expanded edition
On Steve Mazzaro’s website, he has a page which shows off some tracks from the soundtrack and the artist is ‘Steve Mazzaro’.
Surely he couldn’t say it was purely him if it wasn’t?
https://www.stevemazzaro.com/listen
There was a similar arrangement for SUPERMAN IV where John Williams couldn’t conduct the scoring himself because of tight scheduling, so he wrote four new themes and hired his regular orchestrator Alexander Courage to do scoring duties. So the film credits them like “Music by John Williams, Adapted and Conducted by Alexander Courage”.
I can't explain it at the moment, but I feel the part you mention has a David Arnold vibe. This track is also one of my favorites, but it's the last 40 seconds that I really love. Great, energetic version of the Bond theme, which goes very well with the images of Bond driving, and being followed of course.
Agreed. "Lovely to see you again" on the soundtrack; the first half is menacing for sure. Perfect for Blofeld.
The combination of that along with the machinery bringing him into the interrogation room was great. It actually helped Blofeld feel menacing as he slowly approached.
I don't think the '007 narrative' requires a real-world logic all the time and in every (visual) detail. When we look at Ken Adam's amazing sets, we see uniqueness and creative genius, but also tons of impracticalities and engineering screw-ups. But that's fine, because when watching a Bond film, atmosphere is more important than whether or not such a design could actually prove useful in real life.
Same with Blofeld's cell. It adds to the flavours of the scene, but doesn't make a lot of sense in real life, I suppose.
The sequence is very derivative of Silence Of The Lambs, as was Silva's silly perspex cell in SF.
I don't know, a perspex cell with 360 degree views in the middle of a room the size of an aircraft hanger...🤔
I agree, it was a terrific moment.
The last score I listened to as much as this on initial release was QoS.
I loved the balance that Zimmer struck since I am a fan of the soundtracks from the first three Craig- Bond films and he magically wove all of this in, and then some. Just magical.
Agreed.
Although there is not much in the way of ‘new’ thematic material I feel this is the first soundtrack since QoS that ADDS to the visual experience, instead of the music just sort of being there in the background, along for the ride, so to speak…
Bang on. 100% agree, @peter!
I was also thinking about James Horner the other day with regards to the NTTD score. Like a lot of Horner's work (and I do love his music scores) Zimmer's score does have that 'recycled' sound.