Movie Monday - Movies that I love, soundtracks that I adore ! Part II

Last week my Movie Monday was based on movie soundtracks with lyrics such as I don't want to miss a thing of Aeromith from the well known movie Armageddon.  

You can check it on this link : http://rilireallyknows.blogspot.com/2014/11/movie-monday-movies-that-i-lov.html

To make long story short, for this Movie Monday I prepared some wonderful heartbreaking music soundtracks likeeeeeee.....

1) Forrest Gump : I am Forrest…. Forrest Gump  - Alan Silvestri

This is one of my favourite music that reminds me of a bed time song. This song name is I am Forrest…. Forrest Gump and I am sure that you all understood this magnificent movie. The music was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. Silvestri's music was nominated for Best Original Score in the 67^th Academy Awards.

2)  Pirates of the Caribbean : He is a Pirate - Klaus Badelt & Hans Zimmer's

"He's a Pirate" is a musical theme credited to Klaus Badelt (with Hans Zimmer's assistance) for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The track is best known as the main theme for the Pirates of the Caribbean films. It is featured at the end of each film, and is the first theme heard as the end credits roll.

 
3) Amélie : Comptine d'Un Autre Été - Yann Tiersen

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film.The soundtrack features both compositions from Tiersen's first three albums, but also new items, variants of which can be found on his fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time. Beside the accordion and piano the music features parts played with harpsichord, banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone and even a bicycle wheel at the end of "La Dispute" (which plays over the opening titles in the motion picture).

4) Anna Karenina : Dance with Me - Dario Marianelli 

Marianelli is an Italian composer , Italy. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), and Anna Karenina (2012), the last three for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score. In 2008, Marianelli won both an Oscar and Golden Globe for the score of Atonement.

5) Grand Budapest Hotel : Alexandre Desplat -  Lute and Plucked Strings I Moderato

The soundtrack is composed by Alexandre Desplat, who worked with Anderson previously on Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. It is co-produced by Anderson with music supervisor, Randall Poster; they, too, worked together on Moonrise Kingdom. The original music is by Desplat, along with Russian folk songs and pieces composed by Öse Schuppel, Siegfried Behrend, and Vitaly Gnutov, and performed by the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. The 32 tracks, with orchestral elements, keyboard instruments and ambient drones, feature eclectic variations and central melodic themes. Flamenco guitars are used in "Overture: M. Gustave H" and church organs in "Last Will and Testament". The opening song, the Appenzell yodel "s'Rothe-Zäuerli" by Ruedi and Werner Roth, is from the Swiss folk group's Öse Schuppel's album Appenzeller Zäuerli. 

6) Chariots of Fire : Vangelis Papathanassiou

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 musical score by Greek electronic composer Vangelis (credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou) for the British film Chariots of Fire, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Original Music Score. The album topped Billboard 200 for 4 weeks. The opening theme of the film (called "Titles" on the album track listing but widely known as "Chariots of Fire") was released as a single in 1981, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week after, climbing steadily for five months (it made #1 in its 21st week on the chart). "Titles" also reached #12 in the United Kingdom, where its parent album peaked at #5 and spent 107 weeks on the album chart. The single also peaked at #21 in Australia on the Australian Singles Chart.

7) X-Men First Class : Henry Jackman - Magneto

Henry Jackman, who had worked with Vaughn in Kick-Ass, composed the score. Following the James Bond influences on First Class, Jackman drew inspiration from John Barry's work in the said series, which he described as "extremely posh pop music".[90] Jackman started his work with a "Superman-style theme", which is only featured in the final parts of the film as Vaughn thought it was too "successful and triumphant" for a disjointed and up-and-coming team. Therefore, Vaughn reworked a 'stretched' half time version of the theme into the remainder of the film. The themes for Magneto and Shaw have similarities to reflect their "perverted father-son" relationship, with even a seamless transition during the scene where Shaw is killed to represent Lensherr's full transformation into Magneto. 

8) John Williams together with Nino Rota are my favourite old time composer. Rumour has it that Steven Spielberg was after something subtle for the shark in Jaws - perhaps a piano motif. He was persuaded to change his mind and the famous 'chomping' of the low strings is one of the most instantly recognisable themes of all. In contrast, the moment when the bicycles soar though the air in E.T. would melt the coldest heart. The music in the film up to that point is quite low-key but it finally takes flight with a magnificent thrilling melody on the high strings.

Nor is his more recent work any less potent. A score like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a masterpiece of colour. Unlike so many contemporary scores, it explores the whole range of orchestral possibilities.Further, he succeeds in capturing the flighty wit of Catch Me if You Can with crisp, jazzy textures, while Minority Report conveys a disturbing futuristic vision through dissonant strings. And, like all his scores, there are moments of unexpected beauty.

 Catch Me If You Can: John Williams -  Catch me if you can

Catch Me If You Can: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack of the 2002 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio,Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Amy Adams. The original score was composed by John Williams. The film was the twentieth collaboration between Williams and director Steven Spielberg. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The first track of the soundtrack is featured in The Simpsons episode "Catch 'Em If You Can".

 Star Wars : John Williams - Main theme song 

Williams delivered a grand symphonic score in the fashion of Richard Strauss and Golden Age Hollywood composers Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Its main theme, "Luke's Theme" is among the most widely recognized in film history, and the "Force Theme" and "Princess Leia's Theme" are well-known examples of leitmotif. Both the film and its soundtrack were immensely successful it remains the highest grossing non-popular music recording of all-time and Williams won another Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1980, Williams returned to score The Empire Strikes Back, where he introduced "The Imperial March" as the theme for Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. The original Star Wars trilogy concluded with the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, for which Williams' score provided most notably the "Emperor's Theme," "Parade of the Ewoks," and "Luke and Leia." Both scores earned him Academy Award nominations.

9) Psycho : Bernard Herrmann – prelude/ the murder / finale

Bernard Herrmann was an American composer known for his work in motion pictures. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver.

10) The last two soundtracks are written by one of the most well know Italian composer, pianist, contractor and academic Nino Rota. Just magnificent.... semplicemente magnifico !!!! 

Romeo and Juliet ( 1968) : Nino Rota - What is a Youth 

The soundtrack for the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet was composed and conducted by Nino Rota. It was originally released as a vinyl record, containing nine entries, most notably the song "What Is a Youth", composed by Nino Rota, written by Eugene Walter and performed by Glen Weston. The music score won a Silver Ribbon award of the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1968 and was nominated for two other awards (BAFTA Award for Best Film Music in 1968[ and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 1969).

Speak Softly Love : The godfather – Nino Rota

"Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)" is a song written for The Godfather (1972), the first film in The Godfather trilogy. The lyrics are by Larry Kusik but the music itself is by Nino Rota. The signature musical theme that opens the piece closely models a theme that appears early in "Preludio - Povero Ernesto!" in the opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). A similar melody also appears in the Overture to La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901).[citation needed] There are also different sets of lyrics for the song in Italian ("Parla Più Piano"), French ("Parle Plus Bas") and also in Sicilian ("Brucia La Terra"). The Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in The Godfather Part III. It had been nominated for Best Original Score.  However, Rota's score for The Godfather Part II won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Score, despite containing the same piece.

Enjoy 

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