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Shane / Soundtrack Suite
« on: April 30, 2018, 10:13:55 pm »
I've been listening to the soundtrack music of the movie called "Shane".  I haven't been able to shake it.  It reflects various moods making it, musically, one of the most complicated Western soundtracks that has ever come out.  I hope you all enjoy it . . .   :)

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Re: Shane / Soundtrack Suite
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2018, 01:16:51 pm »
Ya, Holland, there's an expansiveness to it, sort of like the old west itself I suppose. It's music that takes us above our troubles for some dreamy moments of possibilities and goodness. Some of it is majesterial as well, rich in emotion. People went to plush theatres to listen to plush themes.

I remember the day when there were neighbourhood theaters. You'd buy a ticket outside from a lady in a glass booth, then walk slightly upward on black-and-white mosaic tiles to brass-handled doors through more brass handled doors and there'd be plush red carpeting under your feet, huge posters of upcoming features. A ticket-taker tore your ticket in half and if you came late, I remember nuns and other ladies in skirts wearing white gloves and carrying flashlights would usher you down to a vacant seat. The movie would play pretty much continuously and you'd stay for it to start up all over again for the parts you missed and you'd say, "This is where we came in!" and probably stay to the end again if it was a good one.


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Re: Shane / Soundtrack Suite
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2018, 09:16:45 pm »
^^^It was a good movie, para, and I liked the music.  The movie (as well as the book) had many story lines buried in it.  There was the story of a young boy and his fascination for weapons and his painful growth towards maturity.  Then there was Shane himself, a gunfighter living into a time where he was no longer needed or wanted.  There was also the cattle baron, the man who wanted to run his cattle free on the range and hated the settlers who were closing the land off.  Then there were the settlers, who had built their properties up and wanted to remain on the land.  It was quite an effective mixture of story lines.  Because of it, the movie had something to say.  The music added to it all. 

It does remind me of the old days when movie theaters ran movies for hours and if you bought a ticket, you could stay and watch them over and over again.  It was a good way to spend an afternoon.  Only problem would be when our fellow kids would misbehave and make a lot of noise . . .   :)
 
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Re: Shane / Soundtrack Suite
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2018, 09:34:35 pm »
A good quality Youtube video of the opening of this movie has come out.  I hope you all like it!   :)


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William Penn (1644-1718) from Some Fruits of Solitude (1718)

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Re: Shane / Soundtrack Suite
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2018, 09:06:33 pm »
^ I missed that one.  It's almost two hours, but maybe I should watch the whole movie.     
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