Programs to music from less than stellar movies

[astimegoesby]

I remember "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" didn't exactly get rave reviews and remember how many skaters used that soundtrack during the early-to-mid '90s? Ditto "1492" a few years later.

I guess it doesn't matter how bad the movie is as long as the soundtrack is good and the skaters don't interpret the choreography too literally.

Thanks for the information about B&S' "Lady Caliph" program, cassieandcheetah! I always assumed that music was an obscure classical piece from the 1800s, not a recent movie soundtrack.

 

[gkelly]

I actually think using music from a bad movie, or an obscure movie, can be a plus, rather than a minus. Unlike with a great or really popular film, the music isn't so associated by a huge audience of people. It can give it a fresher feel than say, using the theme from Titanic. It gives more licence (or easier licence, anyway) for the skater to do what they'd like with the music, rather than trying to express a story or theme from the actual film, because that's what everbody's going to expect.

Like Michael Tyllesen portraying an artist stepping into his painting, to music from The Right Stuff?

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

Lady Caliph for Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze for their '02 Olympics short program...Few people have probably seen or heard of the movie (first of all, it's Italian and it's based on a super-obscure novel I attempted to read but coudn't start on), but wow, what an awesome piece of music! That particular track was called "The Dinner," and I loved how they didn't make a single cut in the track but used the intact version for their short program....But then after all it was Ennio Morriconne, so maybe not all that bad to start with.

I thought B/S skated to Nocturne. I don't have the actual soundtrack, but I have the CD Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone. There are two tracks from The Lady Caliph - Dinner and Nocturne. Dinner does not sound like what B/S skated to, but Nocturne does. Nocturne is also the right length. But B/S did not skate to Yo-Yo Ma's version since this CD came out in 2004. If you want to listen to an excerpt, here's the link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Yo-Yo-Ma-Play...198135-6304758?ie=UTF8&qid=1188496996&sr=8-10

Herm (sk8ngnutt)

 

[cassieandcheetah]

I thought B/S skated to Nocturne. I don't have the actual soundtrack, but I have the CD Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone. There are two tracks from The Lady Caliph - Dinner and Nocturne. Dinner does not sound like what B/S skated to, but Nocturne does. Nocturne is also the right length. But B/S did not skate to Yo-Yo Ma's version since this CD came out in 2004. If you want to listen to an excerpt, here's the link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Yo-Yo-Ma-Play...198135-6304758?ie=UTF8&qid=1188496996&sr=8-10

Herm (sk8ngnutt)

I have the actual soundtrack CD, and I have to agree the yo-yo ma version you posted here sounds nothing like "la Cena," which is the track that B/S used, and which translates to "the dinner" in Italian. But as far as I can tell, it's really "La Cena" they used, not "Nottorno."

 

[maggylyn]

I actually think using music from a bad movie, or an obscure movie, can be a plus, rather than a minus. Unlike with a great or really popular film, the music isn't so associated by a huge audience of people. It can give it a fresher feel than say, using the theme from Titanic. It gives more licence (or easier licence, anyway) for the skater to do what they'd like with the music, rather than trying to express a story or theme from the actual film, because that's what everbody's going to expect.

A great piece of music is timeless and can stand on its own - which is precisely why I hate when skaters insist on "telling the story" of whatever movie the music came from. I think it's different when it's music from an opera. But from a movie - I'd much rather they made it their own and go with what the "feeling" of the music conveys and forget the movie. Sometimes I agree there might be a little bit of story from the movie but overall it tends to be overkill and overboard.

And don't even get me started on the skaters who think their costumes must also "tell" a story. Isn't that the birthplace of the horrific costume? (But that's another thread entirely.)

 

[Tinymavy15]

And don't even get me started on the skaters who think their costumes must also "tell" a story. Isn't that the birthplace of the horrific costume? (But that's another thread entirely.)

yeah, like i could scream when skaters (and there are so many of them) wear outfits with large crosses for romeo and juliet. IMHO, you should look like romeo and juliet, not the graveyard they were buried in. gosh.

 

[anya_angie]

As any film score collector can tell you, sometimes, bad, even awful films have the most amazing scores. Jerry Goldsmith's score for Supergirl is one of the most requested and sought after in his career. James Newton Howard's The Village is perhaps the best thing he's done to date and rightfully deserved its Oscar nomination. A lot of people don't like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but there's little doubt that the score was beautifully constructed nonetheless. There's been a whole thread on IMDB in the composers section about great scores from bad movies.