John Williams - The Patriot: Original Motion Picture Score (2000 Film)
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- The Patriot
- The Family Farm
- To Charleston
- The Colonial Cause
- Redcoats at the Farm and the Death of Thomas
- Ann Recruits the Parishoners
- Preparing for Battle
- Ann and Gabriel
- The First Ambush and Remebering the Wilderness
- Tavington's Trap
- The Burning of the Plantation
- Facing the British Lines
- The Parish Church Aflame
- Susan Speaks
- Martin Vs. Tavington
- Yorktown and the Return Home
- The Patriot Reprise
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Free Music Review: John Williams' Score For "The Patriot" Shines
Hit: 5 Stars
There have been comparatively few films about the colonial period in America, and even fewer about the American Revolution. Given the reverence held for this period by modern Americans this is surprising. Among the best of these few are "Drums Along the Mohawk," "Allegheny Uprising," "Northwest Passage," and "Last of the Mohicans." Roland Emmerich's "The Patriot" is a solid and rousing, if at times overly patriotic, entry to a a limited field of good films. The subject brings to mind fifes, drums, brass, and victorious fanfares. John Williams' fine score to this film (one of the year's best scores) has all that and a good deal more. He adds a subtle, rustic musical foundation that reminds us that the origins of the American republic were about uncommon valor from common folk too. John Williams' film music has become more introspective of late, "Saving Privat Ryan," "Angela's Ashes," parts of "Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace," and somewhat unexpectedly "The Patriot." This is not a complaint. His attention to the human element is stunning, and at times as powerful as any action score. Similar musical threads are evident in earlier Willams' scores dealing with the American past, "JFK," "Born on the Fourth of July," and "Saving Private Ryan," indeed, "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Patriot" could almost be historical and musical bookends (consider the haunting use of the brass section in all of these). But this score is far more complex and satisfying than any of that earlier and elite company. Both the film and Williams' music explore the human costs of war, and and it is not all bugles, drums, and glory. Note that Williams actually has three major themes for Benjamin Martin, as the simple farmer and father, as revolutionary patriot, and a very disturbing brass them for his bloodied past and his dark, uncontrolled resolve for vengence. This is an outstanding soundtrack recording that, like most of Williams' film music, stands well on its own. While Emmerich's film is perhaps too long, too broad in story, too ambitious in scope (it might have been more effective to have stayed with the historical Swamp Fox story), and a bit over the top at times (Mel Gibson and Roland Emmerich, what else need be said), John Williams' score keeps things balanced and adds another notable entry to the work of one of America's greatest musical treasures. The film opened appropreately over the Fourth of July weekend, and Williams' score is a fitting musical, birthday salute.
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