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Post by dingo on Apr 11, 2015 10:15:52 GMT
It was on TV lately and I taped it and finally watched it yesterday. Very disappointed, it sounded really good, Colin Farrell is one of my favorite actors and I like Keira Knightley and some of the rest of the cast as well. But I found it to be very superficial and almost boring. Almost as if there was a better, longer movie beneath it, that has been brutally cut.
But the music was a pleasant suprise. I knew of course that Serge made the soundtrack and that a pre-Kasabian version of "La fee verte" would be in it - several times, actually. But then also "Narcotic Farm" and "Club Foot"! I was a bit confused when I heard the intro of "Stevie". So Serge obviously liked that so much that he decided to use it for a whole song later? Good idea! Was there something else that I missed? Some tunes sounded faintly familiar, but I could not tell if they ended up in a song later or if it was just typical Pizzorno style.
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Post by highroyds on Apr 11, 2015 13:58:25 GMT
It's not an amazing film. I've watched it loads of times for obvious reasons, but I probably wouldn't have watched it once if it weren't for the soundtrack. But I don't really watch a lot of films anyway, maybe I'm just too picky.
As for Stevie, maybe the music already existed at the time, not only the intro. Versions of Happiness and GK were around about 10 years before their release. It's a shame that the full score was never released, but my theory is that they wanted to have the Fairy on Velociraptor first, and not some random soundtrack. I recorded the full end credits at some point, it sounds like four different pieces of music, they're quite nice to listen to. A lot of it sounds like variations of the Fairy though, like this:
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Post by ginner on Apr 13, 2015 23:46:10 GMT
The Letter by The Box Tops. Thanks for that one Serge.
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