Here are my choices for the best movie theme music of all-time.
1. The Godfather
2. The Exorcist
3. Patton
4. Jaws
5. (tie) The Last of the Mohicans (tie) Rocky
Honorable mention to The Sting.
Other movies have had some great songs but when you hear these instrumentals - your brain automatically thinks of the movie.
Interesting to note that all of the movies except Last of the Mohicans (1992) were from the 1970's. Also all the songs except The Exorcist (Tubular Bells) and The Sting (The Entertainer) were original scores. Do movies these days need hit songs associated with them to help increase profits and marketability? An exception to this was the Harry Potter theme music (which has a good argument to be in the Top 5). Did the folks producing Harry Potter (knowing they already had a guaranteed jackpot) feel they needed music more to suit the movie and not to suit the suits (producers and marketing folk)?
Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Showing posts with label The Last of the Mohicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Last of the Mohicans. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
James Fenimore Cooper
Today would have been James Fenimore Cooper's 218th birthday. He is best remembered today for his excellent The Last of the Mohicans. When the movie of the same name was released in 1992 - I decided to read the book. I liked the book so much I decided to read some more of Cooper's works. Unfortunelately, everything else I picked up by Cooper I found completely unreadable. Just awful stuff.
It s possible that I just picked up the wrong books but something tells me that Cooper caught lightning in a bottle with The Last of the Mohicans. The thing is, if you read about Cooper, you find that he was considered perhaps the preeminent American writer of his age. I think that just goes to show how little in the literary world is timeless.
By the way - Cooperstown in New York (home to the Baseball Hall of Fame) is named after James Fenimore Cooper's father.
Today would have been James Fenimore Cooper's 218th birthday. He is best remembered today for his excellent The Last of the Mohicans. When the movie of the same name was released in 1992 - I decided to read the book. I liked the book so much I decided to read some more of Cooper's works. Unfortunelately, everything else I picked up by Cooper I found completely unreadable. Just awful stuff.
It s possible that I just picked up the wrong books but something tells me that Cooper caught lightning in a bottle with The Last of the Mohicans. The thing is, if you read about Cooper, you find that he was considered perhaps the preeminent American writer of his age. I think that just goes to show how little in the literary world is timeless.
By the way - Cooperstown in New York (home to the Baseball Hall of Fame) is named after James Fenimore Cooper's father.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
NFL - Music by Yanni?
The above new Nike commercial really caught my eye or I should say my ear. The background music is the theme song to the movie The Last of the Mohicans. I love that song. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Michael Mann directed both The Last of the Mohicans and this Nike commercial. What I find amusing is the fact that there is an orchestral version of that music and a version that was done by Yanni. The music from the commercial sounds like the Yanni version.
I just find the idea of somehow combining Yanni with the NFL in any fashion funny.
The above new Nike commercial really caught my eye or I should say my ear. The background music is the theme song to the movie The Last of the Mohicans. I love that song. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Michael Mann directed both The Last of the Mohicans and this Nike commercial. What I find amusing is the fact that there is an orchestral version of that music and a version that was done by Yanni. The music from the commercial sounds like the Yanni version.
I just find the idea of somehow combining Yanni with the NFL in any fashion funny.
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