The Gunbarrel (Spoilers)
Matt S
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The soundtrack track listing has the gunbarrel at the start of the film, and the track was leaked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpKX0X9lU9M
It follows Newman's arrangement from Spectre with very little changed, except for the added guitar in the vamp.
It sounds like the fanfare part is going to play over black again, which really bothered me. Bombastic music on a black screen? It feels like something is missing. I don't imagine this can be fixed here because the vamp is too long for Bond to be walking the whole time. And with Johnny Marr on guitar, why not have him play the classic guitar melody here? It's a missed opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpKX0X9lU9M
It follows Newman's arrangement from Spectre with very little changed, except for the added guitar in the vamp.
It sounds like the fanfare part is going to play over black again, which really bothered me. Bombastic music on a black screen? It feels like something is missing. I don't imagine this can be fixed here because the vamp is too long for Bond to be walking the whole time. And with Johnny Marr on guitar, why not have him play the classic guitar melody here? It's a missed opportunity.
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"The spectre of defeat..."
You can blame Arnold for that! I'm not a massive fan of it either.
Someone has made a sort of possible version of the gunbarrel using it:
https://twitter.com/antovolk/status/1311748106103513092?s=20
I'd also prefer if they stuck to a more traditional gunbarrel structure of leading into the main guitar line after the gunshot, rather than moving straight to the final bars of the theme, which Arnold first introduced in Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. I didn't mind having that a couple of times, but I'd love a return to a more traditional format.
There's nothing like discussing Daniel Craig era gunbarrels to make me feel like a sad, moaning git...there always seem to be a whole lot of nits to pick with them.
To me, TLD remains the last movie where the gunbarrel sequence is a classic one.
TLD is a great gunbarrel, a couple of favourites of mine are also FYEO and OP.
I also like the way Bill Conti arranged the Bond theme in FYEO. Great gunbarrel, directly opening to Tracy's grave with these particular few notes...
In LTK for instance, Michael Kamen tried to put something darker into the movie, which is quite logical considering the level of violence in this one. He did a decent job but I can't say I'm thrilled when I hear it.
To me, Newman is by far the worst composer ever in the entire franchise. He managed to spoil the pleasure of listening to the Bond theme in SF and Sp.
He used Arnold's arrangement from the previous two films..?
Only for the end credits. The rest is his own arrangement and I think it's a failure.
I expect nothing from Zimmer. Perhaps I will be positively surprised...
It's not the same to me. If you listen to the scores of CR and QoS, you can hear the difference. I have nothing against Newman, but I still don't get why they didn't keep Arnold. The score from QoS was one of the few good elements of the movie. I know Newman and Sam Mendes had worked together in the past (Road to Perdition in 2002 with...Daniel Craig), but I don't see any reason to get rid of Arnold whose work was appreciated by many fans.
"The spectre of defeat..."
"The spectre of defeat..."
Hope it's playing in the Jamaica club background...impossible since seeing that behind the scenes short to hear it and not walk like a panther...as Dana Broccoli might observe.
Hope so too but remember what they did with the arranged theme from OHMSS in Sp: absolutely nothing. They just put it into the trailer. I think it could have been awesome to hear it during the car chase in Rome instead of that shitty Grand Bazaar score.
A few times the people who scored the trailers did better than the people who scored the films. Like the Parodi-Fair music for the GoldenEye trailer was far superior to what Eric Serra came up with for the film. But film scoring is a different industry than trailer scoring. But while the OHMSS theme was exciting in the SP trailer, I would have been very disappointed if that theme showed up in another film.
That will be nice, but I did like seeing Bond go back to wearing a suit in the gun barrel, recalling some of the early gun barrels with Simmons, Lazenby and Moore.
Agreed. One of the highlights for me were the remastered CDs which included the Gunbarrel music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1i-PQUDeLs&ab_channel=brightslash
I deeply hate the design of SF gunbarrel. The close up on Craig is something I'll never understand.