And this is what is turning over in my head as I get up, that little bit of an unimportant experience that has got in and taken hold so that it is sitting in front of your mind upon waking like a big dog beside your bed, wagging it's tail wanting attention, you know what I mean? OK here it is:
Last night as we were getting ready for bed, Mom was channel surfing -- one after another, soccer, Monk (on the Hallmark channel!), soccer, the new Melrose Place (really here so quickly?), some weird scifi movie with a fighting monkey, soccer, CNN, a bunch of animated kids shows, and one channel that was showing a drama in Spanish (I say that because down here it seems the practice is anything live originally in English is subtitled not dubbed, the animated stuff is dubbed but the live stuff isn't) one of the CSIs and then we hit on Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the flipping stopped. It was the market scene, the big one where Indie and Marion are bickering and they get chased and she hids in the basket and gets stolen by the Nazi's and he goes after the basket and has the fights and pulls out the whip and shoots the guy with the knife and makes the truck explode with, he thinks, Marion in it. We all know the scene. Well I was watching it and thought WOW! that is not holding up at all well. Not just not holding up, that it was bad, that all the punches LOOKED fake and the timing wrong and bumbling, real amateur-hour stuff --- and then it hit me, they had changed the music. It was just some generic orchestral piece. Obviously composed (sort of) to go with the pace of the action but nothing like the real music. And it absolutely wrecked it. Now this is on a real cable channel that is being fed into an deluxe hotel, so I ask what is UP with that? Can you license to broadcast a movie without the music? Like with TV shows that use current pop/rock songs that go from country to country and swap them out, like they did with Skins? Why would they want to? And with something as iconic as the music to Raiders. Anyone know how that works and why they would even bother with a 20 + year old movie? It was just so wrong, that the wrongness kept with me till this morning (and yes I know that that must say something very major about me).
But now, having paid attention to it, the big dog will go on its way and I can move on to another sunny day here. Heading down to the more then comprehensive breakfast buffet soon, and then off for a day of exploring. Probably with the Raiders soundtrack running through my head!
Monday, December 7, 2009
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Hate to say it Lis but often music is half of a movie. What would Hitchcock be without Herrmann? Watch the scene where she's driving to the motel in psycho on mute—it's boring. Or better yet put on some Wagner it changes the mood completely.
If they were going to change the music to Raiders maybe they should have gone the comedy route and dubbed in Yackety Sax by Boots Randolph and sped up the film.
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