Five film theme tunes way better than their movies
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Music is such an integral part of movie-making that sometimes it can be just as important, if not more so, than the visuals on the screen.
There’s no way that Jaws would be anywhere near as scary as it is without John Williams’ ominous repeated cello note preceding some unfortunate teens getting chomped, or imagine that cornfield chase scene in Interstellar without Hans Zimmer’s outrageously stirring orchestral work underpinning it; it wouldn’t be the same at all. The staggering talent of movie composers to match the directors’ vision and translate it into theme tunes we know and love is not something to be taken lightly.
And sometimes, those theme tunes are much, much better than the movies they’re attached to; quite simply, either the film itself doesn’t work or the director has an off month or two, resulting in a bit of an onscreen mess, while the composer continues to float to the tune of their own baton.
Here we have some examples of movies where you can nip straight out and get the vinyls while leaving the Blu-rays on the shelf.
Five theme tunes that bested their film origins:
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