Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#1Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:56pmWhat is your favorite theme song from a motion picture. My all time favorite hands-down has to be "To Sir, With Love" written by Don Black and Marc London. It was performed by Lulu who was also in the film. It was a surprise to discover that it was not even nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar. What was wrong with those people?
#2re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:58pm
Opening Credits to "The Lion in Winter"
Tubular Bells, "Exorcist"
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SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#2re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:58pmI really like the Beetlejuice theme. The DVD has a soundtrack-only audio track where you can listen to just the orchestrations. Great feature.
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#3re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:59pm
I think my favorite theme song will always be the 2001:space odyssey, theme. (aka, "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss)
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Updated On: 1/14/08 at 04:59 PM
#4re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:00pmTaxi Driver
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#5re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:03pmHamlisch's variation of Joplin in The Sting
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#6re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:07pm
Fargo
Goldfinger
North By Northwest
#7re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:09pm
One of my favorites is the instrumental for the Anakin vs. Obi Wan/Palpatine vs. Yoda battle in Star Wars Episode III. Absolutly amazing.
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Updated On: 1/14/08 at 05:09 PM
#8re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:09pm
oops, for some reason my first post didn't take so I posted again.
Now the original is there - go figure.
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Updated On: 1/14/08 at 05:09 PM
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#9re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:14pmThe instrumental score for when Michelangelo gets his inspiration for the Sistine Chapel in THE AGONY AND THE ECSTACY.
#10re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:18pm
Instrumental: Peyton Place
(runner up: A Summer Place)
Vocal: Theme From Valley of the Dolls
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#11re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:20pmWell, if we didn't know best12 was gay before, we do now...hee! Jk...
#12re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:23pmVocal - Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me.
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DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#13re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:32pmVocal - "The Rose"
#14re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:36pm
lildogs--- Who... me?
Other themes I love:
Now, Voyager
Laura
The Exorcist (Tubular Bells)
Driving Miss Daisy
Star Wars
Superman
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Far From Heaven
Around the World in 80 Days
Other vocal themes:
Arthur's Theme
The Way We Were
The Morning After
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#15re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:52pm
Instrumental:
Sweeney Todd
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Begins
Superman
Indiana Jones
Star Wars
Psycho
The Exorcist
Vocal:
Ghostbusters
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#16re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:58pm
Ennio Morricone's "Deborah's Theme" from Once Upon a Time in America.
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#17re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:51pm"Back to the Future."
#18re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:37pm"Somewhere In Time," "Gone With The Wind," "Now Voyager."
sidjones09
Leading Actor Joined: 1/4/07
#19re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:24am
TOP 5:
1) E.T. (from the bike chase through to the end of that movie is some of the most amazing music ever written for the screen)
2) Braveheart (The theme music that plays near the beginning when young William Wallace sees his dead father. It's also the same music that plays over the end credits. Some of the most hauntingly beautiful music I've heard)
3) Philadelphia (Neil Young's version of 'Philadelphia')
4) The Godfather (Awesome)
5) Schindler's List (The man knows how to write a movie theme like no other. What can I say?)
Runners UP: Glory, The Mission, Gone with the Wind,
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#20re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:28am
The only one that comes to mind is the theme from The Devil Wears Prada.
I think it sums up the movie quite well.
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#21re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:56amForrest Gump (cliche, I know)
#22re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 6:00am
Hans Zimmer is my fave film composer, so pretty much anything he's ever done (i.e. THELMA & LOUISE, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, THE LION KING). His "Thunderbird" from T&L kills me.
Also, JURASSIC PARK, SCHINDLER'S LIST, and E.T. John Williams is a genius.
And, of course, GONE WITH THE WIND. especially "Tara's Theme." RIP Max Steiner.
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#23re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 6:15am
Juraissic Park
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mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#24re: Favorite Motion Picture Theme - Instrumental or Vocal
Posted: 1/15/08 at 6:57am
Terms of Endearment
Glory
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