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Apparently De Palma wasn't very complimentary: I can't remember if he got rid of Silvestri or he walked.
That's literally one of the worst uses of the theme.
Almost as bad as Bond arriving at Hamburg Airport in TND. Thats a little gratuitous too.
Really? To me it seems like a product of its time.
Oh, I just read that Tom Cruise was the one who made the decision to replace Silvestri during post-production.
How so?
Further films would do that again, though I think more effectively and at appropriate points like Bond fighting SPECTRE helicopters and the Piz Gloria battle.
Thankfully they stopped that practice. It would have felt like kitsch if they cranked it out for Dalton in LTK.
You might be right, yeah; I don't really know.
Funnily enough, for all of his reputation of not using it, I think Newman actually uses it a touch too much in the early part of Spectre. Pretty much every time Bond appears the theme gets a little nod, be on a flute or whatever, and it starts to grate a bit. But then when you actually want it (I would say when he appears flying the plane alongside Hinx's Range Rovers) it's not there :)
Maybe, if you listen to this interview with Paul Hirsch from about 12.30 you can see how De Palma's reaction to the music lead to it:
He doesn't say who decided that Silvestri was gone, it may well have been Cruise (and he does seem hint at that).
Peter Hunt told me that he had Barry do a new version of the Bond theme for the Piz Gloria sequence but felt it did not have the raw feel or punch of the Dr. No version so he went with that for the finished film.
If Barry did a new rendition of the Bond theme for this sequence, I really hope there’s a surviving copy of what that music was.
Yep, that's the sequence and there is a version of the Bond theme from Barry we seem to have never heard. At least that's what Hunt said.
Did he? It's not really heard a lot in TWINE and DAD, so you must be thinking of TND, where I agree.
Yeah. I heard an interview that Jon Burlingame had with David Arnold in the 90s about TND. Arnold said everything he ever wanted to do in a Bond film, he did with TND and that even if he were hit by a bus immediately after doing it, he would have had no problem with it. So I think Arnold scored TND as if it were his last Bond film, because he also wasn't sure if Barbara and Michael would want him back. So he threw everything Bondian at TND.
Was there much in that? I can't remember. And I guess to be fair, Altman had no other thematic work to draw from :)
I was hoping it would be in this, but it only starts from the wall smash:
I'm generally more complimentary of the score than most but that cue doesn't work for me at all. I quite like the music it was replaced with.
Just kidding....... carry on.............