Theme Song...

On Oct 12, 9:46 pm, David Oberman wrote:
> Blue wrote:
> >your all time favorite!
>
> I'm a Survivor
> from "Reba"
>
> __

<< You spend a lot of time in Massachusetts
Seems like every other week you have a meeting, waiting for you
there
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That eerie plaintive bottleneck slide wail of Ry Cooder in *Paris,
Texas*. It just goes on, no hurry, howling at low ebb no matter the
circumstance, which is about all you can say about the region itself.


--
'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:33:29 -0700, No Man wrote:

>That eerie plaintive bottleneck slide wail of Ry Cooder in *Paris,
>Texas*. It just goes on, no hurry, howling at low ebb no matter the
>circumstance, which is about all you can say about the region itself.

Paris really isn't very deserty.....but I'm not all that familiar with
the movie. Is Paris where Harry and Nattassia *used* to live? Or where
she lives in the 'monologue scene'?
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Magnus, Robot Fighter wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:33:29 -0700, No Man wrote:
>
>
>>That eerie plaintive bottleneck slide wail of Ry Cooder in *Paris,
>>Texas*. It just goes on, no hurry, howling at low ebb no matter the
>>circumstance, which is about all you can say about the region itself.
>
>
> Paris really isn't very deserty.....but I'm not all that familiar with
> the movie. Is Paris where Harry and Nattassia *used* to live? Or where
> she lives in the 'monologue scene'?

Hey, that's a compliment to my old section of Blackland Prairie. It
ain't a desert in the sand sense. But where Travis began the movie sure
is; just over the border somewhere below Big Bend is a moonscape.
"There's nothing out there." He was heading towards Paris because that
was the last morsel in his existence; he'd responded a long time ago to
one of them land deals through the mails. He bought it when they were
all together; "I thought we might all live there someday."

So Paris, Texas, represents utopia.

Let me see, his bro' picked him up around Marfa or Ft Stockton, the
neighborhood where they filmed *Giant*. He was heading out northeast,
and he only had some six hundred miles to go. Brother Walt and his wife
lived in LA, and that's where they drove, and Jane was sending money to
their son Hunter from Houston, so that's where Travis took Hunter and
drove back to. I don't know where they were living when the happy family
was all together. In a trailer somewhere.


--
'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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"No Man" wrote in message

> Magnus, Robot Fighter wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:33:29 -0700, No Man wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That eerie plaintive bottleneck slide wail of Ry Cooder in *Paris,
>>>Texas*. It just goes on, no hurry, howling at low ebb no matter the
>>>circumstance, which is about all you can say about the region itself.
>>
>>
>> Paris really isn't very deserty.....but I'm not all that familiar with
>> the movie. Is Paris where Harry and Nattassia *used* to live? Or where
>> she lives in the 'monologue scene'?
>
> Hey, that's a compliment to my old section of Blackland Prairie. It ain't
> a desert in the sand sense. But where Travis began the movie sure is; just
> over the border somewhere below Big Bend is a moonscape. "There's nothing
> out there." He was heading towards Paris because that was the last morsel
> in his existence; he'd responded a long time ago to one of them land deals
> through the mails. He bought it when they were all together; "I thought we
> might all live there someday."
>
> So Paris, Texas, represents utopia.
>
> Let me see, his bro' picked him up around Marfa or Ft Stockton, the
> neighborhood where they filmed *Giant*. He was heading out northeast, and
> he only had some six hundred miles to go. Brother Walt and his wife lived
> in LA, and that's where they drove, and Jane was sending money to their
> son Hunter from Houston, so that's where Travis took Hunter and drove back
> to. I don't know where they were living when the happy family was all
> together. In a trailer somewhere.

This reminds me of the story of the Englishman touring Texas, who was told
by a native that "if only we had more cool water and good people, this place
would be a Paradise!"
He replied "Yes, indeed. The same thing might be said about Hades."
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On Oct 12, 11:44 pm, Blue wrote:
> your all time favorite!

Can't limit my choice to one, so:

'Tara's Theme" (GWTW)

All the 'James Bond' themes composed by John Barry

'Zorba' theme

'Adventures of Don Juan' (Flynn film)

'Doctor Zhivago'

Theme of 'Razor's Edge' (Power version)

"Kings Row'

'Intermezzo' (Bergman and Howard)

many more.
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:41:56 -0700, wrote:

>On Oct 12, 11:44 pm, Blue wrote:
>> your all time favorite!
>
>Can't limit my choice to one, so:
>
>'Tara's Theme" (GWTW)
>
>All the 'James Bond' themes composed by John Barry
>
>'Zorba' theme
>
>'Adventures of Don Juan' (Flynn film)
>
>'Doctor Zhivago'
>
>Theme of 'Razor's Edge' (Power version)
>
>"Kings Row'
>
>'Intermezzo' (Bergman and Howard)
>
> many more.
>
>
>

The soundtrack to the Bill Murray "Razor's Edge" is quite good also.
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In article , says...
> That eerie plaintive bottleneck slide wail of Ry Cooder in *Paris,
> Texas*. It just goes on, no hurry, howling at low ebb no matter the
> circumstance, which is about all you can say about the region itself.
>
>
>

Paris, Texas is good!

Off the top of my head...

Get Carter (the real one)
Last Of The Mohicans
Zulu
Blade Runner (end credits)
Where Eagles Dare

--
Halmyre

What in Swansea are going on here?!
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In article ,
Blue wrote:

> your all time favorite!

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" has to be up there for 'best theme
song that never occurs in the film' . . .

--
Jitterbug phone works! (Third time's a charm!)
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On Oct 17, 9:16 am, Anim8rFSK wrote (in part):

> "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" has to be up there for 'best theme
> song that never occurs in the film' . . .

Amen!

Yrs,

Michael
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On Oct 12, 10:44 pm, Blue wrote:

>
> your all time favorite!

Off the top of my head:

_The Sea Hawk_ (1940), Erich Wolfgang Korngold
_The Red Pony_ (1949), Aaron Copland
_Raintree County_ (1957), Johnny Green
_Spartacus_ (1960), Alex North
_Mysterious Island_ (1961), Bernard Hermann
_The Great Escape_ (1963), Elmer Bernstein
_The Pink Panther_ (1964), Henry Mancini
_Cool Hand Luke_ (1967), Lalo Schifrin
_Patton_ (1970), Jerry Goldsmith
_Blade Runner_ (1982), Vangelis
_Cat People_ (1982), Giorgio Moroder
_Local Hero_ (1983), Mark Knopfler
_Witness_ (1985), Maurice Jarre
_Little Women_ (1994), Thomas Newman

Yrs,

Michael
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smee wrote:
> On Oct 12, 10:44 pm, Blue wrote:
>
>> your all time favorite!
>
> Off the top of my head:
>
> _The Sea Hawk_ (1940), Erich Wolfgang Korngold
> _The Red Pony_ (1949), Aaron Copland
> _Raintree County_ (1957), Johnny Green
> _Spartacus_ (1960), Alex North
> _Mysterious Island_ (1961), Bernard Hermann
> _The Great Escape_ (1963), Elmer Bernstein
> _The Pink Panther_ (1964), Henry Mancini
> _Cool Hand Luke_ (1967), Lalo Schifrin
> _Patton_ (1970), Jerry Goldsmith
> _Blade Runner_ (1982), Vangelis
> _Cat People_ (1982), Giorgio Moroder
> _Local Hero_ (1983), Mark Knopfler
> _Witness_ (1985), Maurice Jarre
> _Little Women_ (1994), Thomas Newman

If it doesn't have a lyric, it ain't a song. A song is a composition for
the human voice, with or without instrumental accompaniment.

--
Frank in Seattle
____

Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:49:21 -0000, smee
wrote:

>> your all time favorite!
>
>Off the top of my head:
>
>_The Sea Hawk_ (1940), Erich Wolfgang Korngold
>_The Red Pony_ (1949), Aaron Copland
>_Raintree County_ (1957), Johnny Green
>_Spartacus_ (1960), Alex North
>_Mysterious Island_ (1961), Bernard Hermann
>_The Great Escape_ (1963), Elmer Bernstein
>_The Pink Panther_ (1964), Henry Mancini
>_Cool Hand Luke_ (1967), Lalo Schifrin
>_Patton_ (1970), Jerry Goldsmith
>_Blade Runner_ (1982), Vangelis
>_Cat People_ (1982), Giorgio Moroder
>_Local Hero_ (1983), Mark Knopfler
>_Witness_ (1985), Maurice Jarre
>_Little Women_ (1994), Thomas Newman

The Magnificent Seven (1960) Elmer Bernstein
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