Thor Joachim Haga
Forumsvar Lagt Inn
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Innlegg
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Totally at odds with my current surroundings. Sunny and spring-like. But it’s where I’m at in my walkthrough. Such a hypnotic score in all its aleatoric explorations and deconstructions. A classic in its own right. I love the bits that send associations to Corigliano’s pupil, Elliot Goldenthal.
Such a mesmerizing work for a mesmerizing film. Not for the orchestral theme lovers; this is static and exploratory — but in very intriguing ways that only Jóhannsson could do.
What about the Night at the Museum scores? I’ve read good things about those, but never managed to get into them.
I love how the main theme seems to sing out “Night at the Museeeeeeeeeum”.
Good additions, Malte!
Since DAS BOOT was brought up, I should also point out that I’m a big Herbert Grönemeyer fan from childhood. Brief backstory: In the 80s and 90s, we sometimes visited some German friends of my parents who lived in Hamburg (they vacationed near our summer house in Denmark every year; hence why we knew them). They also had two sons, a bit older than me, but more or less the same age. While this was before I had German in school, I picked up a few words, including constructing the weird phrase “Volkswagen Geschmack” that I repeated over and over again — which they thought was funny. So during one of our visits there, the two sons had made a mixed tape for me, called “Volkswagen Geschmack”, with a homemade cover:
Long story short (or not so short now), the cassette contained one Grönemeyer album on each side – SPRÜNGE and 4630 BOCHUM. I loved them, and still do.
But only later did I realize he was so multi-talented, both as an actor (in DAS BOOT and other things) and a film composer. Like on THE AMERICAN and A MOST WANTED MAN by Anton Corbijn.
I’m not good at destilling favourites into lists
But that’s the whole fun of being a film music nerd! Lists for life!
In seriousness, good selections.
My initial idea was about real-life regimes, like those of Trump, Putin, Xi, Jung-un….but doesn’t have be as concrete as that. Certain sci fi elements can be added. For example, THE HANDMAIDEN was also on my mind, whether you pick the Sakamoto or Taylor.
But I suppose oppressive regimes in any shape or form would qualify, really. Including prison films.
Many good suggestions so far, by the way!
As someone who cares neither for the Marvel AVENGERS, nor James Bond, this entertaining (but slightly bombastic) score is the closest I’ll get to both.
