Favorite Maurice Jarre Movie Score

[joeybee12]

Poll question: Favorite Maurice Jarre Movie Score

He's had quite the varied career--watching the extras on the Dr. Zhivago DVD got me thinking about this. I think I'll have to vote for Dr.Z.

[soleft]

1. Where's the Barn Raising theme from Witness

???????

[joeybee12]

8. I think that's in "Other"

Never saw the movie, so I didn't include it. Sorry.

[blackcat77]

2. "Grand Prix"

I'm a racing fanatic, it's my favouite racing-themed film and Jarre did the score...

[frylock]

5. saw grand prix when i was like 5 or 6..

decided then and there that I was gonna be a race driver!

[dweller]

3. somehow i had jarre pegged as

the composer of the Iceman score, but it turns out it was Bruce Seaton.

so i voted for the Doctor Z.

dp

[frylock]

4. how come there weren't any words to lawrence of arabia?

lawwwwwwwwrence
lawrence of arabia
he was an english guy
who fought the turks

[Armstead]

6. Oh I'm so glad you brought him up

He is so great. It's amazing how many really great scores he has written over the years.

One you didn;t mention is "Is Paris Burning?" It was a mundane WW 2 movie, but a great sountrack by him.

[joeybee12]

7. Yeah, I almost put that in as an obscure entry, but I never saw the

movie.

Oh well..............

[Armstead]

9. The theme song is somewhere on the Internet

I fgound a sitre that had it for download.

[VOX]

10. "The Man Who Would Be King" is my favorite...

Jarre is one of the few film composers who can write in Eastern notation, and he also has a feel for it. (As he did for "Year of Living Dangerously.")

But the score for "The Man Who Would Be King" has many clever touches in it -- a theme (based upon "The Minstrel Boy") for the two overly-enterprising Englishmen played on native instruments that fades into a brass band; the eerie, low sounds of the Tibetan horns, and so on.