David Shire, Original Soundtrack - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
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Artist: David Shire, Original SoundtrackEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-01
Music Label: Film Score Monthly
Soundtracks:
- Main Title
- The Taking
- Dolowitz Takes a Look/Dolowitz Gets Killed
- Blue and Green Talk
- Money Montage
- Fifty Seconds/The Money Express
- Conductor Killed/The Money Bag
- The Pelham's-Moving-Again Blues
- I'm a Police Officer/Renewing Disguises/Goodbye Green, Hello Garber, Goodbye Hippie/Smoking More, Enjoying It Less
- Mini-Manhunt
- End Title
Music reviews of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Music Review: One of the all-time best soundtracks
Rating: 5 Stars
A soundtrack can make or break a movie. Some movies were MADE by a brilliant soundtrack they didn't deserve (Conan the Barbarian, On Her Majesty's Secret Service); whereas many contemporary films are all but ruined by their abysmal score. I never realized the tremendous impact a soundtrack has on the overall quality of a film until I saw a documentary that showed the same clip repeatedly, each time accompanied by different music. It was very eye-opening. People used to go to silent movies repeatedly because the musician playing music to accompany the film would play different music different times. The Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three has one of the most effective soundtracks for a thriller I have ever heard in my life. The fact that the film itself is also damn good makes for a real treat. The driving force of the music is almost unparalleled. By the way, pop in the DVD of Pelham and listen to the opening music. Then pop in Payback starring Mel Gibson and listen. That's right, they ripped the score off! (Do the same with Conan the Barbarian and Total Recall.)
Description of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a superb urban thriller: four men, dressed alike in trenchcoats and calling each other Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, etc., take a subway car hostage and demand $1 million in ransom. Walter Matthau stars as the transit cop assigned to the case; Robert Shaw is the leader of the terrorists. It's a brilliant '70s hostage movie with biting New York humor. For the score, David Shire came up with a stroke of genius. He wanted to do some kind of funk/jazz/big band, but wanted a way of making it dissonant and powerful -- not too light, but not too random. So for his melodic materials he utilized the 12-tone method of composition, a technique devised by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 20th century in which you make a theme by using all 12 pitches in a specific order, and then create other themes by playing that "row" backwards, upside-down, backwards and upside-down, or transposed. Shire ended up with a monster two-note bass line with these 12-tone themes running on top. For our CD, the first-ever release of this music, we have utilized the complete score, including around 15 minutes of music not included in the film. The 12-page booklet includes movie stills, composer photos, and track-by-track notes by Doug Adams.General CDs
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