Score Your Week | Mission To Mars
Every Monday (or Tuesday, better late than never) here at Filmdogs, a member of the pack will be offering a recommendation for a soundtrack to help you speed up those never ending work days and (if possible) inspire you.
Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest composers to ever live thanks to scores he did for films like: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, and The Untouchables. Quentin Tarantino and those wanting to be as hip as Quentin often sample his music for their films such as Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-ass. However, it may be his work for Brian DePalma‘s so-so Sci-fi guilty pleasure from 2000, Mission to Mars, that is my favorite. The film itself is DePalma’s ode to 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet despite some well done sequences and a great cast it never lives up to that name.
Now Morricone’s score? That is a different story. It successfully conveys both the isolation, tragedy, excitement, and joy that is space travel. If I was going on a mission to a brave new world I would pray to have music like the track below backing me up. It’s titled “A Heart Beats in Space.” Enjoy.
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Don’t forget his work on the outstanding Carpenter film The Thing from ’82. I love that movie, and it’s score, more and more on each additional viewing.
That’s right. Great Score. I wish the man would do more work in Hollywood.
In Kill Bill As The Bride is walking through Tokyo Airport (about an hour into the movie), she walks in front of a billboard advertising RED APPLE CIGARETTES. These non-exsistent smokes are also found in other Tarantino motion pictures for example Pulp Fiction (Bruce Willis’ character requests a pack after his meeting with Marcelus Wallace inside club) and From Dusk till Dawn (There is a pack about the dash of the Gecko brother’s car).
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