Nick Glennie-Smith - We Were Soldiers: Original Motion Picture Score
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Artist: Nick Glennie-SmithEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Prelude
- What Is War?
- Look Around You
- Flying High
- First Step
- NVA Base Camp
- Telegrams
- More Telegrams
- I'll Go With You
- Horrors
- Photo Montage
- That's A Nice Day
- Jack
- Jack's Death
- Final Battle
- Final Departure
- End Credits
Free Music Notes for We Were Soldiers: Original Motion Picture Score
Free Music Review: Great Companion to the Movie
Hit: 5 Stars
Like the movie, this score draws the listener into the feel, action, suspense and drama of the story. Like all great scores, this too is great to listen to while reflecting on the events of the movie/true events, and/or prepare you to see it again.
We Were Soldiers: Original Motion Picture Score Poster
Since Francis Coppola's epochal Apocalypse Now helped reinvent the scope of what a war film could be, the music of the battlefield epic has logically shifted as well, from heroic martial themes to Platoon's introspective strains of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and the fusion of Hans Zimmer's electronic-tribal soundscapes for The Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down.Composer Nick Glennie-Smith seems to have taken his tip from Barber, composing and arranging an orchestral score of pensive grace and quiet, dramatic power for this Mel Gibson-Randall Wallace Vietnam war dramatization. It's music that underscores the point that the true heroism of war is often more about personal survival than it is about battlefield victory. The Spartan strains of Joseph Kilna Mackenzie's "Sgt. Mackenzie" (originally written as a tribute to Mackenzie's grandfather, a WWI vet) occasionally percolate up in the arrangements, giving the score a battle-weary sense of spirituality that spans the ages. The composer's solo-trumpet denouement "Final Departure" is as emotionally powerful as it is antiheroic, leading to a gospel-infused end-credit sequence that further underscores the story and scores a compellingly human sense of scale. The talented Glennie-Smith has toiled in middling comedies and actioners for years, but this powerful work promises exceptional things to come. --Jerry McCulley
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