My name is Catherine, I am 17 years old, I live in Worcestershire and currently am studying for A le...
My name is Catherine, I am 17 years old, I live in Worcestershire and currently am studying for A levels in music, theatre studies, film studies and general studies. I love acting, watching films, playing and listening to music.
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This is an incredible soundtrack written for the 18th Century action/drama film Plunkett and Macleane starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It is composed by Craig Armstrong, also composer to some of the famous heavy instrumental tracks used in Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet in1996 such as the track 'O Verona'. This whole sound track is in a very similar style to that of Romeo and Juliet in the sense that it uses so many different genres of music within one film. As the film is set in the 18th Century it seems a bit of an odd choice to ask Craig Armstrong to create the film score as he is known as an Electronica artist. Overall surprisingly it works though. This CD has some amazing tracks ranging in styles from Carl Orff's symphonic, apocalyptic methods, to Opera, to modern day dance tracks and calm/subdued background tracks.
If you like to listen to a range of music, from classical to modern upbeat tracks, this is the CD for you. However, if you're expecting funky 'songs' with lyrics like a traditional soundtrack, don't buy this, it is a conceptual album rather than a CD just to listen to for pleasure.
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loved this film so I am intrigued to hear the soundtrack again, didnt really take much notice whilst the film was on. good work..Dave
berlioz 19.04.2005 14:32
I would disagree in this not being a "traditional" soundtrack. Since this is a score soundtrack it is most certainly a traditional one. The song albums that you often see plaguing the film music scene are much more untraditional soundtracks since they mostly contain songs that have not even been written for the movie in question. A score on the other hand has and is therefore a truer representation of the music in the movies unless the film has been drowned out by songs primarily. Also your review was a little short on material. Perhaps you could add some more info for those hungry for it, but hey, welcome to Ciao!... Berli
bgen 19.04.2005 10:45
Good review; still, some more info would be helpful, and would also increase your ratings. Welcome to Ciao!