G L A D I A T O R | Sountrack Review
January 25th 2009 02:45
Music from the motion picture
G L A D I A T O R
Music by Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
DECCA CD 467 094-2
More often than not a new film release will be accompanied by the release of a CD with music from the film.
I still listen to, and enjoy The First Wives Club (WORK CD 4853962) CD because it has some great songs and singers along with that rare treat, You Don't Own Me sung by Bette Midler, Diane Keaton & Goldie Hawn the three female leads from the film. The on-going good value of such a track as this is proven by its appearance in something like PACT Youth Theatre's, First Rice Club (part of UNBECOMMING), as derivative fringe satire soundtrack it is queered over holding new meaning.
Motion pictures these days are most likely to have a compilation of covers or original hits that somehow underscored the film with polish, dignity or emotional familiarity and provide good listening later with no necessarily direct link back to the film. The Australian release of slasher movie CUT bore the compilation CD by Liberation Music of the same name which had an old favorite on it, I Got You from Split Enz, I would argue the CUT CD Soundtrack is better then the movie.
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard have created an evocative score for Ridley Scotts remarkably entertaining epic GLADIATOR. Each track is very fine listening. My favorites, Strength and Honor, Elysium and the beautiful Patricide. This is a soundtrack I will play on cold winter afternoons as much as I imagine playing it in the warm summers night. It is certainly evocative of the movie, but the depth of emotion delivered (particularly via Gerrard's singing) transcends the original film. It is worth a listen at home on its own.
There's some neat pictures from the film inside the CD jewel box, and if you loved the film for whatever reason you may well find the CD enjoyable on that level only. I enjoyed the film, but I have fallen in love with the music. Worth listening to again and again for ambient echoes as well as thumping great epic sounds.
The common idea is that you shouldn't really notice the music during a film - it should be part of the overall package and seamlessly contribute to an over all effect. Well this music does just that, but it lives beyond the end of the film. I think it's great because of this.
Review by David Jobling
G L A D I A T O R
Music by Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
DECCA CD 467 094-2
More often than not a new film release will be accompanied by the release of a CD with music from the film.
I still listen to, and enjoy The First Wives Club (WORK CD 4853962) CD because it has some great songs and singers along with that rare treat, You Don't Own Me sung by Bette Midler, Diane Keaton & Goldie Hawn the three female leads from the film. The on-going good value of such a track as this is proven by its appearance in something like PACT Youth Theatre's, First Rice Club (part of UNBECOMMING), as derivative fringe satire soundtrack it is queered over holding new meaning.
Motion pictures these days are most likely to have a compilation of covers or original hits that somehow underscored the film with polish, dignity or emotional familiarity and provide good listening later with no necessarily direct link back to the film. The Australian release of slasher movie CUT bore the compilation CD by Liberation Music of the same name which had an old favorite on it, I Got You from Split Enz, I would argue the CUT CD Soundtrack is better then the movie.
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard have created an evocative score for Ridley Scotts remarkably entertaining epic GLADIATOR. Each track is very fine listening. My favorites, Strength and Honor, Elysium and the beautiful Patricide. This is a soundtrack I will play on cold winter afternoons as much as I imagine playing it in the warm summers night. It is certainly evocative of the movie, but the depth of emotion delivered (particularly via Gerrard's singing) transcends the original film. It is worth a listen at home on its own.
There's some neat pictures from the film inside the CD jewel box, and if you loved the film for whatever reason you may well find the CD enjoyable on that level only. I enjoyed the film, but I have fallen in love with the music. Worth listening to again and again for ambient echoes as well as thumping great epic sounds.
The common idea is that you shouldn't really notice the music during a film - it should be part of the overall package and seamlessly contribute to an over all effect. Well this music does just that, but it lives beyond the end of the film. I think it's great because of this.
Review by David Jobling
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