Movie Score

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "davehoz" <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> I was watching _Born Free_ the other night, and that's when I 
> realized who *should* be doing the Harry Potter score: John Barry! 

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> Anyone else agree with me?

I haven't seen Born Free or Alice's Adventures... so I had to look him 
 up on IMDB.  On his list is one of my favorite movies, The Verdict 
(and one of the many things I love about its director, Lumet, is his 
use of music, namely, it's RESTRAINED).  I can't remember the scores 
of the many other movies of his I've seen, which I take as a good 
sign.  I have no problem with leaving a movie theater humming the 
theme, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named gave me a couple of hummable ones 
with HP, but I do mind if the score is so prominent that I'm aware of 
it through most of the movie.  E.g., if you're going to have a stinger 
like the one they impose on the scene where Harry doesn't shake 
Draco's hand, you'd better have a very long list of very good reasons. 
 I *hate* that kind of scoring.  (Oh, my face is flushing just 
remembering it--my embarrassment is not for Draco, but for the 
composer.)

Amy Z