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I watched Platoon a few days ago, and I had never noticed before just how overwhelming I find the music. It's really just entirely too much, both in volume and its robustness. It seems as though Stone believed he needed it to pad certain transitions, when IMO it really was not necessary and no music at all in certain scenes would have said much more.
when I first heard adagio for strings in platoon I thought it was the perfect music to evoke the sadness and futility of war, kinda like in the same way flight of the valkyries evoked madness and crazyness of war in apocalypse now
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when I first heard adagio for strings in platoon I thought it was the perfect music to evoke the sadness and futility of war, kinda like in the same way flight of the valkyries evoked madness and crazyness of war in apocalypse now
You don't find it almost campy? BTW how do you feel about the use of music, or lack thereof, in Full Metal Jacket? IMO Kubrick got it right.
A point that most Americans don't know........ The Ride of the Valkyries is and was, the Regimental March of the British Army's Parachute Regiment, from the early days of the Second World War.
I watched Platoon a few days ago, and I had never noticed before just how overwhelming I find the music. It's really just entirely too much, both in volume and its robustness. It seems as though Stone believed he needed it to pad certain transitions, when IMO it really was not necessary and no music at all in certain scenes would have said much more.
Thoughts?
The time I saw it, in the theater in 1986, it seemed to mesh with the movie. It does seem a bit much now, but I don't like the movie as much as I did then either.
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A point that most Americans don't know........ The Ride of the Valkyries is and was, the Regimental March of the British Army's Parachute Regiment, from the early days of the Second World War.
You don't find it almost campy? BTW how do you feel about the use of music, or lack thereof, in Full Metal Jacket? IMO Kubrick got it right.
Well, FMJ wasn't totally devoid of music, Kubrick used a couple of popular 60s song ins a few key scenes, like he used "These Boots Were Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra in the 'me so horny!' hooker scene. And then he used "bird is the word" in the scene where the Marines are attacking Hue city with tanks, that I can understand, bird is the word is kind of an insane and crazy song and the scene where the tanks are firing into the city and the soldiers are making jokes about Ann Margret and cowboys and indians is perfect
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Well, FMJ wasn't totally devoid of music, Kubrick used a couple of popular 60s song ins a few key scenes, like he used "These Boots Were Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra in the 'me so horny!' hooker scene. And then he used "bird is the word" in the scene where the Marines are attacking Hue city with tanks, that I can understand, bird is the word is kind of an insane and crazy song and the scene where the tanks are firing into the city and the soldiers are making jokes about Ann Margret and cowboys and indians is perfect
Yes, and then there was that somber piece that was played both in the scene where "Pile" shoots the gunny and himself, and then when Joker shoots the sniper in the next to last scene. However, the music in FMJ seems to be more complimentary to what's happening, rather than something that's meant to carry the scene. Also, the two rock pieces you mentioned are much more light-hearted than the heavy pieces played in Platoon.
and then there's the song that plays during the end credits "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones, remember a few years later there was a TV show about the Vietnam war called "Tour of Duty" where they used "Paint it Black" as the theme song, I guess they were inspired by FMJ
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