We're from the 80s. We love sly. We want this flick to be big. AND... Steve Austin talks to meli on the main page (As you may have noticed)!....This movie may just save Lion's Gate from a raider. Read on this killer NY Times piece. Just click on the pic.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Rooting for the Expendables
We're from the 80s. We love sly. We want this flick to be big. AND... Steve Austin talks to meli on the main page (As you may have noticed)!....This movie may just save Lion's Gate from a raider. Read on this killer NY Times piece. Just click on the pic.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
On Pride
From the liner notes to the Rocky Soundtrack - by Sylvester Stallone - 1976
When I wrote the script for Rocky,I wanted passion music. I wanted a symphony of powerful men, of lonely women, of thick-necked losers, of human ships that crash in the night. Of love. Of courage. Of dignity cast in bronze.
I only wished the music could come from inside me, but I was born with ears of stone. Bill Conti shook everyone's hand [at the initial consultation] and walked out the door. Three weeks later, Conti walked in the door with music under his arm.
The music began.
I was sweating.
I am impossible to satisfy, I thought.
I was cheering!
How did this thin man with an Afghan dog, seize the soul of every character and set it to music?! Then it dawned on me. Simple. How could I have not known at our first meeting that he was brilliant: Bill Conti is Italian.
When I wrote the script for Rocky,I wanted passion music. I wanted a symphony of powerful men, of lonely women, of thick-necked losers, of human ships that crash in the night. Of love. Of courage. Of dignity cast in bronze.
I only wished the music could come from inside me, but I was born with ears of stone. Bill Conti shook everyone's hand [at the initial consultation] and walked out the door. Three weeks later, Conti walked in the door with music under his arm.
The music began.
I was sweating.
I am impossible to satisfy, I thought.
I was cheering!
How did this thin man with an Afghan dog, seize the soul of every character and set it to music?! Then it dawned on me. Simple. How could I have not known at our first meeting that he was brilliant: Bill Conti is Italian.
Bill Conti
and speaking of Bill Conti, I could have uploaded Redemption, that great number that starts Rocky II or Alone in the Ring (which hundreds of people on youtube upload their homemade versions of), or his great score for The Right Stuff, but here's the end of Victory, when it just becomes this classical music video with these wild images. John Huston, who directed everything from The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen, to Wise Blood and Fat City, knew exactly how to use Sly and Bill to great effect. Posted by Fredoakd, in Argentina. He's also posted this great march from the end credits but only half, and the 2nd half is just as good but different. Also, Please enjoy what Starvinmarvin90 (a youtube user) has done by putting Going The Distance to Kill Bill. Puffy sampled this back in the 90s for his track Victory, but he didn't do half as good a job. This is crazy violent. But that song is so good.
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