Movie Score Makes You Sad
Movie Score Makes You Sad
#0Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:36am
The Saddest Music in the World thread prompted me to think of what movie score makes me the saddest.
At the moment "Mrs. Soffel" comes to mind.
Which movie score makes you the saddest?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
EddieVarley
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/4/04
#1re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:38amThe grave scene in Forrest Gump and scoring under it makes me weep....and weep.
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#2re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:40amIssac Stern's solo in Schindler's List is almost more than I can listen to.
#3re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:42amThe Brooklyn Bridge scene in "Sophie's Choice" is beautifully sad.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#4re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:45amThe Girl with the Pearl Earring
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#5re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:46ami can't think of an entire *score*, but there are moments in Beaches that make me want to open a vein, and the scene in Boys On The Side where Whoopi sings to Mary from the doorway...OY!
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Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#6re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 10:09am
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
FORREST GUMP
SCHINDLER'S LIST
LITTLE WOMEN (1994)
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#7re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 10:35am
Philadelphia: Especially the opera scene. Engrossing.
The Laramie Project: The parade and Angel Action. Wept.
Schindler's List: The entire score is heartbreaking.
The Hours: I love this movie so much because it is so honestly, genuinely heart wrenching. The kitchen scene with Clarissa...Amazing.
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#8re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 10:36am"Ice Dance" from Edward Scissorhands always gets to me.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#9re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:33amJames Horner -- perceived to be the kitsch-meister (see the Bernstein thread) -- wrote a very moving score for "The Perfect Storm."
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LadyGuenevere
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#10re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:34amThe Hours puts me into a very gloomy mood...and it's one of my favorite movies. Works both ways.
#11re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:57amEddie Varley got to it before I could. Forrest Gump has the saddest score ever. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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#12re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:14pm
Schindler's List
Requiem for a Dream
Dancer in the Dark
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Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#13re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:15pmTITANIC also had a beautiful score that deserved it's Academy Award.
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LadyGuenevere
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#14re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:16pmRequiem's score isn't sad, it's downright creepy. I think that it scared me more than the movie did...
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#16re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:26pm
The soundtrack for "The Alamo" which was released in April. Very melancholy. Carter Burwell used gaelic themes to underscore the tragic events of that March in 1836. "Flesh and Blood", "What We are Defending", "The Last Night"--and the first & last Battle segments also are particularly moving.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#17re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:50pmSamuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - effectively used in the film of "The Elephant Man" and "Platoon", and a million other places...
#18re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:54pm"Return of the King"'s score is beautifully sad, especially Sir James Galway's flute solos and "Into The West." And the score for "Schindler's List."
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#19re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 1:31pmThe John Barry score played at the end of MIDNIGHT COWBOY--not the Harry Nilsson song. Indescribably sad.
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#20re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:40pmAgree with Matt_G about Joy Luck Club (damn that movie is good!) and Little Women.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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#21re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:53pmYou guys beat me to them all. I agree on Forrest Gump and Titanic. Titanic's score is beautiful.
#22re: Movie Score Makes You Sad
Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:04pmSorry to stray a bit, but if you like TITANIC and have a real good sense of humor, you must listen to the Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up It's Act mud flinging tribute to the Broadway and Film versions of TITANIC.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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