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Re: I've seen LOTR

Oliver J. Hanau
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SubjectRe: I've seen LOTR
FromOliver J. Hanau
Date01/27/2002 12:07 (01/27/2002 12:07)
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Jostein Hakestad wrote:

Oliver J. Hanau
Loveitloveitloveitloveit. I think I played it more often already than the TPM score. Heck, I'll put it on right now.

Jostein Hakestad
LOTR isn't better than TPM, they're both very good. I don't even WANT to compare them.

I wasn't comparing them either. I just noticed that LotR excited me like no score since "Unbreakable", "Casper" or even the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" reissue. Or any of the SW re-releases.

I don't hear much material in the score that would be worth putting on an "expanded" disc. Maybe 20 minutes or so?

I'm terribly bad at recognizing themes when I'm not hit over the head with them. Just yesterday when I put LotR on, I noticed a very early instance of the Fellowship theme (forgot where, though). However, Shore himself said the score warranted a more complete release (http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=89).

The main title would be cool to have, because it uses the theme from "The Great River"

Needless to say, I have no clue at this point what the "theme from 'The Great River'" is. But I'm working on it. Only took me ten years or so to figure out that my favourite part from "The Throne Room" (ANH) and basically all of "Funeral Pyre for a Jedi" (ROTJ) were the Force theme.

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But other than that, the CD is a good representation of the score, don't you think?

That it is. (The only thing I ever heard in the movie that I miss on the CD is the statement of the first half of the Fellowship theme when the hobbits first leave Bree with Aragorn.) However, I decided long ago that I'd willingly let myself be ripped off by re-releases of Star Wars scores and movies, and I guess the same goes for LotR. (This time, I'd like lyrics and translations for all of the choral stuff, please.)

What can I say, I'm a Peter Jackson fanboy. (Anybody thinking about getting "Bad Taste" on DVD, shell out the extra bucks for the ltd. edition, even though it's just got an extra 20-minute documentary from the eighties and a cooler packaging. The doc. is just brilliant.)

Oliver.

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