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@BeaumouManatee · 4:52

Watching a movie for the score: House of Sand and Fog (2003) - score by James Horner

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But anyway, so for anyone who hasn't seen the movie or read the book, what this story is about is this sort of this escalating conflict between two parties

Part 1 (overview of plot, book-to-film adaption, why I have doubts going in, why I'm watching for the music anyway)

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@BeaumouManatee · 3:57

Part 2 (initial thoughts on both film and score)

So if there's some kind of lengthy bureaucratic issue that she would have to resolve, she's not the person who's going to do it. Initial thoughts on the score so far so at the very beginning, it didn't sound like James Horner to me. It sounded like it could be anybody writing the score. It was just melancholic and atmospheric as I would describe the opening few shots
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@BeaumouManatee · 1:17

Part 3 (score most resembles parts of Boy in the Striped Pajamas)

Alright, just another quick update. I'm now about halfway through the film. I watched it while I was eating breakfast this morning and the only update I really have is that I still like it. So I don't know why my mom thought it was trash, but anyway, also the score now, as the plot thickens, is definitely resembling James Horner style a lot more, and it especially evokes for me passages from the score of Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which is another outstanding score
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@BeaumouManatee · 5:00

Part 4 (made it to a particularly poignant part of the story)

And the story, as I said, is only going to go downhill from here, which, speaking of that, the only other update I'll share at this time is that sort of the one weak point in the movie, and I guess in the plot of the book is this the officer who is the third party. The unstable element that ends up escalating the story
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@BeaumouManatee · 4:27

Part 5 (finished the movie. What made it work: Ben Kingsley 85%, cinematography 5%, Jennifer Connolly 2%, Horner's score 8%)

Like after spoiler alert, after the sun is shot and the dad is running along through the hospital corridors and praying and very anxious to be with his son, and even after he finds out his son is dead, it felt like the music was inappropriately loud and soaring and majestic
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