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Night at the Opera and Miami International are definitely in my Top 5 of his.
'City of Lovers' definitely in my top 5.
For action it's, 'White Knight', 'African Rundown' and 'Come in 007 your time is up'
My only problem is that it transitions so neatly into 'Dinner Jackets' and 'The Tell' that when it gets to 'Stairwell Fight' you get the shock of your life with its very loud, very aggressive openings bars 😂
The YKMN instrumental is used in nine tracks on the soundtrack.
I personally think Miami International is a masterpiece of action scoring and tension building.
YKMN makes several bold apparences (at 8:25 for exemple).
Then at 9:36, I LOVE how the horns begin to blur the line between YKMN and the Bond theme, at least that's how I hear it (YKMN is actually based on the guitar riff of the Bond Theme. Same musical intervals with a different structure).
Then at 9:59 we are now in full Bond Theme territory, but the build has been so expertly crafted that it actually took me years to notice, maybe I'm just slow, I don't know :p
It's not the glorious/victorious Bond Theme that we all know and love, it's much more tense, which really makes sense storywise (no, CR doesn't wait till the end to use the Bond Theme ;)).
The hybrid YKNM/Bond Theme comes back at 12:14 for the amazing finale.
Masterpiece!
Yeah, Miami has a fair bit of the Mickey Mouse-ing to me, and I kind of like that in things like, for example, the aeroplane fight or rooftop escape in TLD, Barry would simply play the tune in full and it worked brilliantly. YKMN is a great bit of action music, I feel like it would have worked getting a full play.
Exactly. My thoughts too.
I actually agree about the Mickey Mouse-ing. I think it is done right and elevate the Miami scene, but I totally get that it's not everyone's taste. Sometimes it is a bit much.
The orchestra hits at 7:52 combined with the close-ups of the truck (closer and closer) are so unintentionally funny, but I still love it.
I respectfully disagree about using YNMY like Barry would have done it. Actions scenes drastically changed after LTD (in Bond and overall), so I guess the music had to change to. Kamen was the first to depart from this (granted, he didn't write LTK's title song).
We often talk about GE soundtrack as something completly different (do I dare say innovative?) but I think LTK is really a big leap too for the franchise sound. And I can't think of any Bond post LTD where the theme plays during an action scene "à la John Barry", because I think it just wouldn't work. But Arnold is very good at injecting the main theme (or "I Will Return" for DAD) in the score, I think.
And again, it's all a matter of preferences of course :)
Yeah, you might be right. It's not something you really hear at all nowadays; the closest thing is probably when James Gunn or Ryan Reynolds or someone does a needle drop of an ironically cheesy and upbeat 90s song during an action scene, which is inevitably all done in one shot (I really don't need to see that again).
Random thought: maybe we should do a 'best cue from every score' thread? Would folks be up for that?
Yeah. Also, nice idea for a thread. I'm in!