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Basil Poledouris,, my favorite movie composer, died yesterday at age 61. Cancer, as usual.
Here's my favorite song from the Conan soundtrack, "Theology/Civilization". It's special because it was the only passage in Conan's whole life when he was happy. No commitments, no women or heartbreaks, just his friend Subotai and him running across the lands, all cares to the (four) winds. Basil took it and ran with it.
I always liked his music because it was very honest music, pastel colored, straightforward. Emotional songs for emotional scenes. Harsh tones for harsher scenes. Zimmer came close to Basil's style for a while but dropped the ball right around "Pirates of the Caribbean" IMO, now it seems all he does is cut-'n-paste. Whatever...
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Da_bang80
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Wait, I thought some guy named Klaus Bedelt did POTC? At least that's what it said on all my pirated copies of the POTC soundtrack...
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Apparently Badelt worked with Zimmer and ended up sharing his basic style. This is pretty obvious with Pirates of the Caribbean and a little less obvious with Badelt's earlier The Time Machine (which is an excellent score).
Interestingly enough, Pirates of the Caribbean was 'supervised' (there were seven composers in total for POTC) by Zimmer's apprentice, Badelt, whereas Dead Man's Chest was scored by Zimmer himself.
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