UHF Score
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:12 am
I wasn't sure where to put this topic or if another similar one existed already. Mods, feel free to lock, move, or whatever.
For a comedy movie, the score for UHF is very good. As a fan of film score music, I am familiar with many artists (John Williams being my absolute favorite, but also Alan Silvestri, Jerry Goldsmith, and Danny Elfman).
Now, I just watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which is new on DVD. I've seen it plenty of times before, but this time I was paying particularly close attention to the opening scene and the similarities with UHF's opening. It's uncanny how similar those two extras look! Anyway, like I said, I am a huge fan (almost as much as I am an Al fan) of John Williams and his music. But I couldn't help notice that the score music during the opening of UHF is much better than John William's music for the opening of Raiders. In fact, I started hearing the UHF music playing in my head over the Raiders of the Lost Ark scene. Of course, the rest of the music for those films is legendary, but that's beside the point.
Some other really excellent moments in the score include Rambo sequence theme, driving up to U62, end celebration theme, and the "sad" theme (the one played during emotionally low moments in the film). What other pieces of the film score do you like? Also, does anyone know if the theme from the Rambo sequence is a "parody" of the music from Rambo? I've never seen Rambo, so I wouldn't know. I know that the Gone with the Wind music and Raiders of the Lost Ark music are parodies of the original theme and score respectively.
For a comedy movie, the score for UHF is very good. As a fan of film score music, I am familiar with many artists (John Williams being my absolute favorite, but also Alan Silvestri, Jerry Goldsmith, and Danny Elfman).
Now, I just watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which is new on DVD. I've seen it plenty of times before, but this time I was paying particularly close attention to the opening scene and the similarities with UHF's opening. It's uncanny how similar those two extras look! Anyway, like I said, I am a huge fan (almost as much as I am an Al fan) of John Williams and his music. But I couldn't help notice that the score music during the opening of UHF is much better than John William's music for the opening of Raiders. In fact, I started hearing the UHF music playing in my head over the Raiders of the Lost Ark scene. Of course, the rest of the music for those films is legendary, but that's beside the point.
Some other really excellent moments in the score include Rambo sequence theme, driving up to U62, end celebration theme, and the "sad" theme (the one played during emotionally low moments in the film). What other pieces of the film score do you like? Also, does anyone know if the theme from the Rambo sequence is a "parody" of the music from Rambo? I've never seen Rambo, so I wouldn't know. I know that the Gone with the Wind music and Raiders of the Lost Ark music are parodies of the original theme and score respectively.