Smashing Soundtracks for Stew to Score

Smashing Soundtracks for Stew to Score

Postby Divemistress of the Dark on 15 Aug 2006 04:32

OK, so just now I was reading SC's bio on the Internet Movie Database, and it got me to thinking:

Just how great would it be had Stew scored "Snakes on a Plane?"<sup>*</sup>

What movies do you wish he'd scored? Any key changes to actors or other personnel?

Personally, I'd love to see him work on the soundtrack to some really soulful movie, like a remake of "Shaft" or "Black Mama, White Mama." He's the funkiest white man around.

<sup>*</sup>"Snakes on a Plane" isn't out yet in the U.S., but it's what's called a "cult movie." Probably won't make much bank, but it's already generated such word of mouth it'll surely have advertisers falling all over themselves to associate their products with it.
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Postby jedsoon on 15 Aug 2006 17:55

it's wide open for me. i haven't seen everything he's done, but will probably get around to most of it. the key for me is that a soundtrack be made available for me to purchase and listen to. the movie often comes second, although i rank wall street as one of my faves.

i would like to try dead like me, but don't have a good outlet for it. not too long ago i had the chance to get both seasons for the price of one and passed on it. i just couldn't bring myself to buy two box sets of a tv show i'd never seen before. but i would buy a soundtrack in a heartbeat.

some of my tastes run completely opposite of stew's. he has stated that very bad things is the only one of his movies that he can watch and enjoy these days, but i personally don't find it very entertaining. i was even more disappointed by the score, as i couldn't really recognize it as distinctly his. however, i would still buy a soundtrack, if it contained the bulk of stew's score and not just the pop songs from the movie, just for my collection.

i am wanting to watch i am david, because i got to hear a piece of the score on the movie website. it had a passion-like vibe (that's peter gabriel's score for last temptation, not the mel gibson movie). but, it's been out over a year and i haven't checked it yet, so i guess i'm not in a hurry. too busy with my own project to even come up for air.

snakes on a plane seems cheesy, but if stew had done it i would definitely be paying more attention.
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Postby conroy on 15 Aug 2006 22:48

I wish Stewart had gotten to score some more of the other brilliant movies by Ken Loach like Ladybird, Ladybird and My Name is Joe. Even though I haven't seen the film and don't plan on seeing it from what I've read, he would have been perfect for The DaVinci Code.

I think one oif his most underrated scores was for the tv series Breaking News. Here's hoping it will arrive on DVD one day along with The Equalizer and one of my childhood favorite saturday morning tv series, Shazam. It had a great score and, to me anyway, is kind of a precursor to what Stewart would later go on to do. I really wish more movie studios would do with movie score cues like what Stewart is doing with the Everyone Stares derangements and including them as Easter Eggs on the DVDs.
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Postby sockii on 16 Aug 2006 00:09

Conroy said:
"Even though I haven't seen the film and don't plan on seeing it from what I've read, he would have been perfect for The DaVinci Code."

Nah, that movie was too much of a talkie snooze-fest...not even a Stewart score would have saved it!

Me, I'd love to see/hear Stewart work on a film with Luc Besson (something futuristic yet fun like "The 5th Element"), or maybe a Hong Kong action/comedy from Stephen Chow ("Shaolin Soccer"). But I'm weird that way...
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Postby Divemistress of the Dark on 16 Aug 2006 01:27

I remember really liking Ken Loach's movie "Riff Raff" when it came out. Actually I just bought a copy of it lately...it's not available on DVD, so I have it on a pile of VHS tapes with "Savage Nights" and a couple of 1950s horror movies I loved as a kid. One night soon I'm going to hook up the old tape player and give those flicks a whirl.

I guess I mentioned 'Snakes on a Plane' because I'm a huge Samuel L. Jackson fan. Mr. Jackson is intelligent and articulate, but he often stars in movies that I might call "so bad they're good" - although his movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown" were not bad!

Come to think of it, Quentin Tarantino directed both those movies, and the provocative 'Kill Bill' that came out a few years ago...although mostly Tarantino uses music released in the 1970s, so his projects might not provide much opportunity for a film score.

I also find myself interested in movies that are just plain wrong, like 'Bad Santa' featuring Billy Bob Thornton, or really richly layered ('Cool Hand Luke'), but none of those seem an obvious match for Mr. Copeland.

Seems like it'd be too obvious to suggest Stewart do the score for really obscure Brazilian movies or modern Fellini adaptations, but I swear I'd love to see something like that.

Seems like he's mixed it up a little, done a movie he loved and then one that would make some money. Can't say I blame him.

You know with whom I'd dearly love to see him work? Michel Gondry. I really loved 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (which I thought redeemed Jim Carrey's career in a way nothing else could) and Gondry has done some really cool and interesting music videos (a neat one made out of Legos for the White Stripes, and a really bizarre and hypnotic one for Kylie Minogue, of all people). Another natural fit might be SC with Spike Jonze...he'd've done wonders with the soundtrack to 'Being John Malkovich.'
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Postby Popcorn Blizzard on 18 Aug 2006 21:25

I think of Stewart when I hear that wild drumming in the 'Tusken Raider' scenes of the original Star Wars movie.

I'm sure he'd do a good job scoring this upcoming 'Apocalypto' film. It's got Mayan jungles, a black panther, and a total eclipse going on.

Actually I'd trust him to score anything. I checked out his catalog a while back and found out he composed the closing credits for Desperate Housewives.
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Postby Divemistress of the Dark on 19 Aug 2006 04:59

I saw an interesting French movie tonight called 'Army of Shadows.' It's by Jean-Pierre Melville and is about the French resistance during World War II.

It had some really cool atmospherics, and is a classic 'film noir'. Good soundtrack, but could have used some improvement.

Wonder if Olivier has any comments...!
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Postby jedsoon on 20 Aug 2006 11:43

samuel l. is great in anything. i even read a good review of snakes that might make me give it a chance. and i should clarify that i actually enjoy cheese and movies so bad they're good, but cheesy in this case refers to disaster movie-cheesy, which i don't have a taste for in general.

stew should have scored the new miami vice movie!
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Postby georgygirl on 20 Aug 2006 23:29

I didn't hear all Copeland's scores, but from the ones that I have, I like Rumblefish, Leopard Son and Pecker even if in the last two I never saw the movie... :?
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