OT: War Film Scores

[warspite1]

Back to sea for the next up. A great film, so realistic one can smell Frentzen's farts emanating from the TV... [:(]

And, like the Luftwaffe March another stirring, totally brilliant and descriptive theme toon.

Das Boot - Klaus Doldinger from Das Boot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbAc-H44Uw

[warspite1]

We stay at sea for the next toon but move back in time. Not really a war film but its got one of His Majesty's Ships as the centre piece so it counts [:)]

This is the closing music from this particular film - and once again this is an electronic piece which should be out of place in the 18th century, but its such a wonderfully atmospheric piece - especially listening to it as we watch HMS Bounty burn - and the mutineers last link to civilisation goes with it....

Closing Titles - Vangelis from The Bounty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oop6Rq_4XMQ


Well if it isn't a young Liam Neeson! Bob The Builder was in this version too

[Chickenboy]

For real this time:

A Bridge Too Far has a sensational score. My favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7vrvM0iO4

[geofflambert]

I'm surprised warspite1 didn't mention the British theme from Battle of Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3idxKx ... wfk255ML3i

[geofflambert]

Here's a longer version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtBMgAUQQS8

[Bullwinkle58]

The score for Woody Allen's "Love and Death" is pretty good. Classic(al) even.

[Trugrit]

My three favorites:

Band of Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1DosMJafGk

The Pacific:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E-6Qd0wJlQ

Saving Private Ryan – Omaha Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6pxRAKwsE

[geofflambert]

It's odd that those Spits in the artwork are unarmed.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'm surprised warspite1 didn't mention the British theme from Battle of Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3idxKx ... wfk255ML3i

warspite1

I haven't finished yet [:)] but now you have mentioned it for me [&o]

But this version needs to be played because of the start.....Oh man this slays me....put the speakers on max. Oh dear, I've just soiled myself....

Battle of Britain Finale and Battle of Britain March - Ron Goodwin from the Battle of Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLDZkypBHnw


Time the Hurricane got some love

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

It's odd that those Spits in the artwork are unarmed.

I see 8 .303's. Looks good to me [&:]

[warspite1]

Next up is a wonderful hymn claimed by the USN, the RN and many others besides.

Eternal Father - Rev John Dykes from Crimson Tide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrAA5PuZpWM

and from the same film - another stirring mutha of a theme toon.

Main Theme - Hans Zimmer from Crimson Tide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYe4dSunbs8

Capt. Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes." By all means sir, drop that f****, twice! I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.


Go 'Bama!

[crsutton]

Great Escape
Last of the Mohicans

[John 3rd]

LOVE Crimson Tide! If you have not seen that movie, DO SO!!!

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Last of the Mohicans

Another good score. Several years back I ran with my son up a mountain, just to demonstrate how hard it really was. I had this score in my mind. I couldn't do it now without Bionics [;)]

[John 3rd]

...or an O2 tank???

[BBfanboy]

Here is something Japanese ...
From Empire of the Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDpdI8lmFE

[warspite1]

The next great piece is the main title from Schindler's List. The best film ever made should have a memorable theme tune - even if that tune is so hauntingly sad and unbearably melancholy. The fact is that this piece of music is perfect for the film subject.

Theme music - John Williams from Schindler's List

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNSsv86lsok


The genius of Spielberg in full effect. I don't know if this was his idea or where it came from - but this was truly inspired EDIT: Apologies, these pictures should be the other way around of course

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

LOVE Crimson Tide! If you have not seen that movie, DO SO!!!

warspite1

+1 (and then some more)

Gene Hackman is just perfect for the part of the sub captain. Following on from the part quote I added above, the scene goes on.

Capt. Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy.
[Stifled laugh]
Capt. Ramsey: "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz.
Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more...
Capt. Ramsey: Complicated?
[Men Laughing]
Hunter: Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.
Capt. Ramsey: [laughing] I'm very impressed. In other words, the sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
Capt. Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just think that in the nuclear world the true enemy can't be destroyed.
Capt. Ramsey: [chuckling, tapping glass] Attention on deck. Von Clausewitz will now tell us exactly who the real enemy is.
[laughing]
Capt. Ramsey: Von?
[Men Laughing]
Hunter: In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself

This is a truly brilliant exchange (I love the 'von' [:)]) and the look that Ramsey shoots Hunter with after Hunter's last remark is just priceless.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

A Bridge Too Far has a sensational score. My favorite.

warspite1

I'd quite forgotten how good this toon is [:)]

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

It's odd that those Spits in the artwork are unarmed.

I see 8 .303's. Looks good to me [&:]

Someones expecting bloody great cannons poking out of the wings.

Battle of Britain march on the car cassette player.
Driving through a 60kmh zone.
End of track, driving at 80kph, whoops.

Ashokan Farewell from Ken Burns Civil War series.

And I forgot about Oxygene from Gallipoli1