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Offline Bob

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Is this based off a classical piece?
on: December 24, 2015, 04:34:07 AM

Movie -- Sum of All Fears
Piece -- The Mission


I was busy, but I thought I heard this melody in a classical station today.  Male vocalist though.  I wondered about it.  And it's a movie composer.  They might borrow and adapt.  Take the original source material that has this melody, write a pop song, add around it for the movie....

Is there an original source for this?  Maybe an opera? 





https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164184/soundtrack

https://www.amazon.com/The-Sum-Fears-Jerry-Goldsmith/dp/B000066NYR



I was looking at this, but it's not...
Romance: Io la vidi e al suo sorriso
 from opera "Don Carlo"
 Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

Offline dcstudio

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Re: Is this based off a classical piece?
Reply #1 on: December 24, 2015, 09:08:08 AM
Movie -- Sum of All Fears
Piece -- The Mission


I was busy, but I thought I heard this melody in a classical station today.  Male vocalist though.  I wondered about it.  And it's a movie composer.  They might borrow and adapt.  Take the original source material that has this melody, write a pop song, add around it for the movie....

Is there an original source for this?  Maybe an opera? 





https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164184/soundtrack

https://www.amazon.com/The-Sum-Fears-Jerry-Goldsmith/dp/B000066NYR



I was looking at this, but it's not...
Romance: Io la vidi e al suo sorriso
 from opera "Don Carlo"
 Composed by Giuseppe Verdi

I know that Neussun Dorme  or however you spell it is what he is listening to at the end of the movie when they all get murdered.  I always found it kind of odd how the bad guys in Jack Ryan movies all seem to like Italian opera.  Guess it makes them look smarter...or more cultured.

I am listening and it does not sound familiar to me. :)

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Re: Is this based off a classical piece?
Reply #2 on: December 24, 2015, 01:40:15 PM
Sets up the montage sequence.  Haha.

I found a line somewhere about "The Mission" being Goldsmith and the other guy, but I still don't trust that. 
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."
 

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