I've noticed score wise lately while watching OHMSS and FRWL that the original Dr No Bond theme was used. Now my question is has it been used in other Bond movies ( I also loved FRWL's addition of some of the other score cues from Dr No).
Dr. No Original Bond Theme in other Bond movies.
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MooreDalton
, Jan 14 2013 06:43 PM
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Posted 14 January 2013 - 07:31 PM
YOLT (helicopter battle)
TSWLM (Marvin Hamlisch faithfully reproduced it for Bond's ride on the camera trolley)
Other, similar arrangements have been used throughout the series (eg: LTK truck chase, TND 'Company Car', etc).
My second-favorite arrangement has to be George Martin's "over-produced" version in LALD.
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Posted 15 January 2013 - 12:41 AM
If you mean the actual recording by Norman and Barry. Its Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 07:31 PM
It also appeared over the end credits of some versions of Thunderball.
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:06 PM
If you mean the actual recording by Norman and Barry. Its Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Agreed, all others are re-arrangements - yet the original was still being used in the trailers right up until 1989!
Edited by Dan Gale, 16 January 2013 - 11:07 PM.
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 06:46 AM
Given the 50th anniversary, I'm surprised the original Monty Norman/John Barry arrangement wasn't used in Skyfall. Not during the film proper perhaps, but over the end credits?
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 09:55 AM
I was hoping that too Guy, or even in the trailer? I know it's the old arrangement, but it's classic Bond and represents the series in a way no other arrangement can!
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:18 PM
In The Music of James Bond, John Burlingame writes that John Barry was irritated with Peter Hunt, who loved the theme, using the original recording in both YOLT and OHMSS. "I could have used t[he Bond theme there, but it would most certainly have been orchestrated and treated in a totally different and more appropriate manner. There's no intrigue, dramatically. ... it had that 'record feel,' it doesn't draw you into the picture." (p, 78-79)
David Arnold arranged the most faithful version of the original recording for the Casino Royale closing credits. Curiously, his arrangement of the Monty Norman theme is in the credits of Skyfall, and Barry is not mentioned. Though I did read M's flat in the film is actually that of John Barry's.