On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:09:22 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:

In article ,
vincent p. norris wrote:

Midway *does* have good music...another John Williams score.

I guess I never noticed that! I'll try to pay closer attention next
time I watch. (And I will watch; I love looking at those old
airplanes, even if they're the wrong ones.)

One of the characteristics of a good movie score is that you
don't notice it.

Well...I'll disagree with you, to some extent. A good score should not be
intrusive, but the best ones enhance the movie. The opening for "The Rocketeer"
is a good example. "Star Wars," as mentioned by others, is another good case.
Each major character had their own musical theme...subtle most of the time, but
they'd be worked together during action sequences.

Lucas went a long, LONG way to build sympathy for Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker
by the time Vader dies in "Return of the Jedi." But the crowning touch was the
"Empire Strike Back" theme, played in a minor key on a single mandolin, just as
Anakin dies.

Or, to slip back to aviation, imagine the scene at the beginning of "Twelve
O'Clock High," when Stovall puts the Toby mug back on the 918th mantel. The
music transitions from a song of peace to a song of war as Stovall's mind
transfers from the tranquility of the abandoned air base to the harshness the
return of a shot-up bomb group.

Ron Wanttaja