James Newton Howard - Unbreakable (Film Score)
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Artist: James Newton HowardEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Visions
- Reflections of Elijah
- Weightlifting
- Hieroglyphics
- Falling Down
- Unbreakable
- Goodnight
- The Wreck
- Second Date
- School Nurse
- Blindsided
- The Orange Man
- Carrying Audrey
- Mr. Glass / End Title
Music reviews of Unbreakable (Film Score)
Music Review: A new beginning for James Netwon Howard
Rating: 5 Stars
The first time I noticed a musical score by James Newton Howard was his excellent orchestration for The Fugitive. He seemed to be able to capture the dark, scary, gritty feel of a big city at night perfectly with his music. You got the feeling like the whole world was out to get you. Unbreakable though, seemed to usher in a whole new echelon for him...
You might best describe the musical score for this excellent film by saying that it is (like the film it is taken from) half real and half imagination. The main theme, Visions, feels half like a dark superhero theme and half like some of the good music for the fugitive, where the cold reality is waiting to grab you.
The themes of the villain Elijah and Audrey similarly have a strong pull. Elijah's themes feel halfway between a sad story of a person living on the dark side of life, and half the creepy machinations of a potential monster. The love themes and hero themes (which you hear at the end of Visions and The Orange Man, as well as in Carrying Audrey) to me suggest the feeling of seeing something surreal happen right in front of you (as if you saw an ordinary person save someone's life in a feat of superhuman strength before your very eyes).
I have always felt that the best movie music is composed when the person creating it has a good movie to inspire them. In this case it seems even moreso. The film is remarkably silent much of the time, so when there is music it needs to be powerful indeed. And it is. When I listened to the score for the first time, a Blindsided made my heart skip a beat, and I could swear the some of the hero themes were making me teary-eyed.
Unlike many soundtracks released in the United States today, this one appears to be complete, and free of remixes, altered tracks, and needless repitition. I could listen to this one from beginning to end without stopping and not be bored for an instant. I can't say that about many soundtracks (in fact, the only one I can think of besides this is the orginal Star Wars soundtrack). This just might be James Newton Howard's best score ever. It definitely broke new ground for him and paved the way for future great works like his score for Peter Pan. There's some strong music, some moving music, and some breath-takingly beautiful music here. It's my favorite score by James Newton Howard, and definitely a required purchase for fans of his music (or fans of classic movie scores in general).
Description of Unbreakable (Film Score)
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