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BP Top 50 Movie Scores List 6

BP Top 50 Movie Scores List

1. Star Wars 2. Psycho 3. Jaws 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 5. There Will Be Blood 6. The Third Man 7. Vertigo 8. Raiders of the Lost Ark 9. Lawrence of Arabia 10. Lord of the Rings 11. Taxi Driver 12. The Social Network 13. The Godfather 14. Once Upon...

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1. Star Wars

score by John Williams I have purchased John Williams’ score for Star Wars five times, in various configurations, over the course of my life.  (Only one less than Ben-Hur!)  If you tell me it’s been remastered, I’m buying it.  If...

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2. Psycho

score by Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho would undoubtedly be iconic and memorable were it only contained to those horrific, ear-piercing screeches that accompany the famous shower scene, and which return whenever Mother reappears. Visuals can...

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3. Jaws

score by John Williams Like the greatest film composers, John Williams understands what the emotional core of a film is, and writes his scores to compliment and inform that. With Jaws, Williams zeroed in on the pure, primal instinct that...

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4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

score by Ennio Morricone It’s one of the most memorable opening few bars in film scoring history; a far-away drum beat, like a Native American chant played on horse hooves, followed by staccato whistling and a legato, high-pitch wailing. Ennio...

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5. There Will Be Blood

score by Johnny Greenwood From the first frame, it sets your teeth on edge, the mountains, still, flooded with the atonal drone of Johnny Greenwood’s score. Something is deeply wrong, and it’s down to the rocks, suffused in the earth...

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6. The Third Man

score by Anton Karas Anton Karas’s alternately jaunty, distant, jarring, and haunting zither score is one of the singular breakthroughs of The Third Man, already a landmark film in and of itself. Discovered in a Vienna restaurant during production, Karas...

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7. Vertigo

score by Bernard Herrmann The opening notes of Bernard Herrmann’s theme for Vertigo send the audience right to the edge, and leave us teetering on it for the rest of the picture. What sort of abyss awaits if we let...

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8. Raiders of the Lost Ark

score by John Williams The Raiders march, brimming with brash heroism and can-do gusto, is one of the most memorable of John Williams’ themes in a career slopping over with memorable themes.  (Any composer today would kick orphans just to...

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