Thursday Tunes
Most people first became aware of Vangelis as the composer and performer of the main title for the Oscar-winning 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. One year later, he also composed and recorded the entire soundtrack for a little movie called Blade Runner.
One of my favorite pieces of music comes from that soundtrack: "One More Kiss Dear." It's an incidental background piece of which you only catch a few seconds in the movie. The tonality is deliberately shifted upwards in order to emulate a gramophone recording of the 1920s. In the film, this was intended to evince the Philip Marlowe-esqe gumshoe image of the main character -- which it accomplished quite well, I think. Of course, it didn't hurt that Harrison Ford was playing the lead. I've often thought that Hollywood has really missed an opportunity in failing to cast Ford as Marlowe on the big screen... but I digress.
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One of my favorite pieces of music comes from that soundtrack: "One More Kiss Dear." It's an incidental background piece of which you only catch a few seconds in the movie. The tonality is deliberately shifted upwards in order to emulate a gramophone recording of the 1920s. In the film, this was intended to evince the Philip Marlowe-esqe gumshoe image of the main character -- which it accomplished quite well, I think. Of course, it didn't hurt that Harrison Ford was playing the lead. I've often thought that Hollywood has really missed an opportunity in failing to cast Ford as Marlowe on the big screen... but I digress.
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