Movie scenes with good themes / songs - Youtube (1 Viewer)

As mentioned earlier, several youtube video clips on "A Bridge too Far" have been removed, presumably for copyright reasons. Here is one surviving clip with the movie theme march. There is no video, but there are some good still-shots of XXX Corps on the move. That's one snappy march which sure gives me a kick to get up and go.

Raymond. %^V


 
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Sgt Mackenzie from We Were Soldiers.

Some background :
Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a Sergeant in the Seaforth Highlander, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in in Moray Scotland went to fight in the Great War. Sergeant MacKenzie was bayoneted to death at the age of 35, while defending one of his badly injured fellow soldiers in the hand-to-hand fighting of the trenches.

The track was then included in his band Clann An Drumma's album Tried and True. While working on the film We Were Soldiers director Randall Wallace, received a CD of the album and was haunted by the emotion and spirit of reverence captured in "Sgt. MacKenzie". He arranged for Joe and band mate Donnie MacNeil, who played the pipes, to re-record "Sgt. MacKenzie" with the backing of an 80-piece orchestra and the United States Military Academy Choir at the famous Abbey Road Studios. The lament was introduced into the film during key scenes with MacKenzie singing on his own and on the last track of the film with the orchestra and choir.

Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie went to fight in France during WWI and was shot in the shoulder. The military sent him home to Scotland for treatment, where the surgeon wanted to amputate his arm. Sgt. MacKenzie refused, stating that he had to go back to his men. While recuperating in the hospital, he was asked what it was like to kill "the Hun" (as the Germans were called then). He replied, "what a waste of a fine body of men". His last picture, with him in uniform, was taken on the steps of the hospital. This picture hung in his home above the fireplace. Upon his return to the front, he and his men were engaged in fixed bayonet combat.

The composer says :

To the best of my knowledge, and taken from reports of the returning soldiers, one of his close friends fell, badly wounded. Charles stood his ground and fought until he was overcome and died from bayonet wounds. On that day, my great grandmother and my grandmother were sitting at the fire when the picture fell from the wall. My great grandmother looked, and said to my grandmother "Oh, my bonnie Charlie's dead". Sure enough a few days passed, and the local policeman brought the news - that Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie had been killed in action. This same picture now hangs above my fireplace. A few years back my wife Christine died of cancer, and in my grief I looked at his picture to ask what gave him the strength to go on. It was then, in my mind, that I saw him lying on the field and wondered what his final thoughts were. The words and music just appeared into my head. I believe the men and woman like yourself who are prepared to stand their ground for their family - for their friends - and for their country; deserve to be remembered, respected and honoured. "Sgt. MacKenzie", is my very small tribute to them. After "Sgt. MacKenzie" was first released on our Tried and True CD album in 2000, a copy of the song made its way to the hands of Hollywood director, Randall Wallace and actor Mel Gibson. Immediately they both agreed that "Sgt. MacKenzie" should feature prominently in their upcoming movie. The rest, as they say - is history!
Joseph Kilna MacKenzie

Sgt MacKenzie - Scottish song with English translation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Ad04mukI

Same but with modern day and WWI/2 images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9E7L_gYbWI

In the movie they played that song as the Huey's were taking off to take them to the valley. Cant find the version with that music but this is the Huey flying scene with different music. Sgt Mackenzie also features in the final charge scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRzcIrvtpLY

Brett
 
Chuck,
An oldie but a goodie.
Some good war movies in 60's with good themes. Used to be background music when I was having my 1/72 wars on the floor.
Brett
 
For those who like movie themes/scores below is an interesting link showing all Oscar winners and nominations.

Anybody heard of Alex North ? Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone.

The American Film Institute ranked North's score for A Streetcar Named Desire #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:
Cleopatra (1963)
The Misfits (1961)
Spartacus (1960)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Academy Awards for Original Score:
Winner - Honorary Oscar for memorable achievement in a host of distinguished motion pictures (1986)
Nominated - Under the Volcano (1984)
Nominated - Dragonslayer (1981)
Nominated - Bite the Bullet (1975)
Nominated - Shanks (1974)
Nominated - The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Nominated - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Nominated - The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Nominated - Cleopatra (1963)
Nominated - Spartacus (1960)
Nominated - The Rainmaker (1956)
Nominated - Best Original Song (with Hy Zaret) Unchained Melody (1955)
Nominated - The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Nominated - Viva Zapata! (1952)
Nominated - Death of a Salesman (1951)
Nominated - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Golden Globe Awards for Original Score:
Winner - The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Nominated - Spartacus (1960)

ASCAP Award for Original Score:
Winner - Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Winner - Lifetime Achievement (1986)

Grammy Awards for Original Score:
Nominated - Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Nominated - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Nominated - Cleopatra (1963)

Full info at :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score
 
Another score (and film for that matter) that is very high on my likes is The Sand Pebbles.
 
The Military Workshop said:
For those who like movie themes/scores below is an interesting link showing all Oscar winners and nominations.

Anybody heard of Alex North ? Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone.

The American Film Institute ranked North's score for A Streetcar Named Desire #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:
Cleopatra (1963)
The Misfits (1961)
Spartacus (1960)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Academy Awards for Original Score:
Winner - Honorary Oscar for memorable achievement in a host of distinguished motion pictures (1986)
Nominated - Under the Volcano (1984)
Nominated - Dragonslayer (1981)
Nominated - Bite the Bullet (1975)
Nominated - Shanks (1974)
Nominated - The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Nominated - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Nominated - The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Nominated - Cleopatra (1963)
Nominated - Spartacus (1960)
Nominated - The Rainmaker (1956)
Nominated - Best Original Song (with Hy Zaret) Unchained Melody (1955)
Nominated - The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Nominated - Viva Zapata! (1952)
Nominated - Death of a Salesman (1951)
Nominated - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Golden Globe Awards for Original Score:
Winner - The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Nominated - Spartacus (1960)

ASCAP Award for Original Score:
Winner - Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Winner - Lifetime Achievement (1986)

Grammy Awards for Original Score:
Nominated - Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Nominated - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Nominated - Cleopatra (1963)

Full info at :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score
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The Agony and the Ecstasy - I love that move. Rex Harrison calling up to Charlton Heston 'When will it be done'? as he says Mass in the Sistine Chapel - gold...just gold. I liked Rex Harrison in quite a few movies, particularly in this one and My Fair Lady and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. There is a scene in the last of these movies when Harrison as the ghost is dictating his memoirs to Gene Tierney and she says 'must you use that word'? He says yes, so she eyeballs him and thumps out four (unknown) letters. Pretty rude for 1947.
 
RPZ said:
Another score (and film for that matter) that is very high on my likes is The Sand Pebbles.
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The Sand Pebbles was composed by Jerry Goldsmith (1929 - 2004) one of the all time great movie score composers.

He was nominated for 18 Oscars but only won for The Omen. The Sand Pebbles score was nominated along with Papillon (a favourite of mine), Patton, Chinatown, Star Trek, Basic Instinct, LA Confidential, Wind and the Lion, Planet of Apes, Boys From Brazil.

Others by him include Alien, Rambo First Blood (all Rambo films), Air Force One, US Marshalls, The Mummy, Total Recall, Tora Tora Tora, MacArthur, Von Ryans Express, and First Knight to name a few. Also composed The Man From U.N.C.L.E TV theme. Did a few Westerns : Rio Lobo, 100 Rifles, Bandolero.

I think it goes to show music is a huge part of the movie experience.

Goldsmiths total list of music credits is huge and his Wiki entry is at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith

Brett
 
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