Yr fantasy film soundtracks and scores

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I had a strange dream that I was renting video's (on another planet) and one of them was an ancient Dr.Who Episode that was rescored by the band Add N to X. Aside from my half-drunken, subconscious associations (don't even ask) - it got me thinking - what would your fantasy rescore be for a film? It obviously has been done before on silents (ie -Moroder's 'Metropolis'), but what about sound and current films? For example, Who would you have picked to score 'Blade Runner'? What soundtrack would've remade 'In the Mood For Love', or even what band would bring a whole new set of associations to 'Run Lola Run'?

― Jason, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Putting new score to Lola Rennt would be immediate death sentence: you don't mess with perfection. But having said that: a Richie Hawtin score to Blade Runner would be a nice if somewhat predictable choice. 'Crash' needs an Autechre soundtrack. Star Wars with a Jeff Mills score would be interesting. Betty Blue soundtrack by Kruder & Dorfmeister. Shit all soundtracks should be made by techno artists ;)

― Omar, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Star Wars scored by Queen

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry for my heresy, Omar! I wouldn't dream of tampering with 'Lola's integral soundtrack - but then again, what you were given a Tykwer's film and had no knowledge of techno? What if you were 86 and had worked under Ennrico Morrone?

― Jason, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'd leave _Blade Runner_ the way it is, because I just imagine all the industrial-wannabes these days turning it into a clattering mess. ;-) I would, however, definitely get Eno to do the entire score from _Dune_ and not just the one song. Toto, I ask you.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also a gabber soundtrack to John Woo's 'Hardboiled' would be nice, no?

― Omar, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spaeking of, do you guys know where you can get the soundtrack to Lathe of HEaven by Michael Small?

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Try Gemm - a vast compendium of music retailers scattered throughout the globe. Don't know about their movie soundtrack coverage, but I've been hooked up with other musical goodies in the past.

― David Raposa, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bambi: Carcass

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually.....for years I've had http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/links/cinema/directors/kubrick/AI.html bookmarked, a page on the Speilberg/Kubrick film AI which is actually several years old and has a rough plot description which may as well be a summary for the actual finished movie. An interesting thing is that Aphex Twin was named as composers of the film score....

― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josie And The Pussycats with Rachael Leigh Cook singing like Kate Hanley and playing her axe like an old blues man.

― JM, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kate - Mike's sister?

― Nicole, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am soemhow related to her I guess. I think sh e lives around here too, she always plays in Cambridge.

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Star Wars + Queen = Flash Gordon... no? I must confess a liking to the movie and soundtrack in a weird way... perhaps Star Wars (played back at 1/4 speed) and scored by Air?

― fernando, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Flash' was more the flaming gay cousin of 'Star Wars' if memory serves (note - yes, i know i risk impunity, and it's not even that Queen scored the film; you had that irrepressible DeLaurentis euro- camp production, feat. the advent of the male-blond circuit bimbo). Air would definately add a much moodier element to Lucas space- western, and it would probably be alot like Alain Goraguer's score for 'Fantastic Planet'.

― Jason, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thats a good point Jason! Its quite homoerotic, big muscley half nude men prancing about to queen.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, I guess you can view Flash in that way, and Queen's contribution just accidental ;-) I guess Star Wars was a bit of an incestous relationship that could never be!

― fernando, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sleepless in Seattle scored by MBV.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Incredible Mr. Limpet scored by Wu-Tang.

― Matt (clever suffix here), Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Billy's idea, as that would drown out the asinine dialogue.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the asinine dialogue. It's just these peoples lives are being torn apart by loneliness and bereavement and the longing for family and what do we get for the music Harry Connick fucking Jr.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Listening to Harry Connick Jr. would make me feel more bereaved than the mind can comfortably conceive.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...speaking of sentimental pap, was at the movies this weekend and saw this preview for 'Americas Sweethearts' (the godawful j.roberts vehicle for summer01)- and couldn't help but notice that any time John Cusak enters the frame, the quirky, early 80's new-wave soundtrack music begins, signifying former roles ('Gross Point Blank', 'High Fidelity'). The pavlovian association was well marketed by whoever designed the preview - as I doubt the soundtrack to this movie will be in the same.

― Jason, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

From the IMDB entry for Dune:

'Alejandro Jodorowsky had originally planned on filming Dune in the early 70's, and had enlisted the help of Jean Giraud and H.R. Giger to create the movie's visual style. Salvador Dalí was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor, and the soundtrack was to be done by Pink Floyd. According to Jodorowsky, "The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. Their message was `not Hollywood enough'. There was intrigue, plunder. The storyboard was circulated amongst all the big studios. Later, the visual aspect of Star Wars (1977) strangely resembled our style. To make Alien (1979), they called Moebius [Giraud], Foss, Giger, O'Bannon, etc. The project signalled to Americans the possibility of making a big show of science-fiction films, outside of the scientific rigour of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The project of Dune changed our lives."'

― Phil, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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