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I bought the CR album recently and it's amazing how much of the title song is featured in the background score, it's almost in every track and it really adds to the intensity of the score, having one unified tune
Skyfall's was included late in the game as I understand it and was arranged not by Newman but by one of the orchestrators who worked on the song with Adele. Spectre's accompanies Bond and Madeleine's impassioned lovemaking following the Hinx fight, and in this respect perhaps serves the film better narratively than Skyfall's theme playing over the approach to the casino (as gorgeous as that moment is aesthetically). However, the sudden lovemaking in Spectre is played for laughs (or at least the transition in is) and the relationship between Bond and Madeleine just slightly less convincing than that between Bond and the Ocean Club receptionist in Casino Royale, so I'm not sure that either of these singular uses of the title theme were put to best use.
By contrast, the Surrender theme in Tomorrow Never Dies clearly serves as an alternate heroic theme for Bond in the film, the main theme of The World Is Not Enough fittingly serves as Elektra's theme (or perhaps a theme representing the evil scheming of both Elektra and Renard), and the YKMN theme in Casino Royale serves as sort of a proto-James Bond theme for Bond before Bond is really Bond.
Before you scoff (a natural reaction), have another listen. It combines tension, romanticism, and old school British swagger all in the one amazing piece.
It probably encompasses everything there is to know about Bond.
An astounding, unheralded piece from an all round great soundtrack. I have Barry up there with Vangelis and Morricone as artists who truly understood cinematic music.
Nothing controversial about that. its a fantastic piece of music from one of his best scores.
In fact I think MR features Barry's best work as a Bond composer.
That it is. Barry was well on top of his game in the late sixties.
The ST for YOLT is one of that film's few saving graces. Though I feel the main theme is repeated too often.
OHMSS is such a wonderfully varied ST. Even that weird Christmas Tree trip. I still WTF that tune whenever it comes along.
True that LP.
Yeah some of Barry's best stuff is buried in the more mediocre movies.
'Wine With Stacey' I recall being particularly lovely from the AVTAK soundtrack.
Great shot, great decision to score it with the slow theme.
But I wasn't born until 1970.
My best stuff..and what is this 'stuff' you are referring to eh ? hmm ?
I agree. He saved many films with his scoring and in my opinion their next composer must also have that capacity to make the music elevate certain mediocre scenes. It's what separates the boys from the men. Newman failed in this respect with SP. Arnold couldn't do it either (his best work was tied to Craig's earlier outings which were full of great scenes). Some of the one-offs were able to do it (Conti in certain sequences in FYEO, Martin definitely in LALD, Hamlisch in TSWLM & even Kamen in LTK).
Yes, she makes silly, obvious mistakes, but that is authentic for someone out of their depth. She has a role to play in the story, and isn't just tagging along for the sake of it.
There's also the legendary Paris Carver, who unbelievably had an emotional impact on James Bond.
That scene is always the standout that cements how annoying she can be, with the incessant screaming once they're locked in the elevator.
Even the fight on the GGB was botched.
France, on the other hand, was just marvellous.