OT: what movie would actually be worth seeing with a live-performed soundtrack

Submitted by icactus on
Serious question where your answers will be given undue weight in a real world application. Current favorites internally are Jurassic Park and Home Alone but surely the movie knowledge of this blog can provide a better answer.
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Vote_Crisler_1937

July 24th, 2016 at 7:56 AM ^

Jurassic Park or J. World. E.T. Gettysburg. I also really liked the soundtrack to Chris Nolan's Batman movies or even Batman v Superman. BvS isn't a great movie but those drums and that guitar lick every time Gal Gadot gets ready to fight would be awesome.

That's what we need. Her performing her parts live on stage with a live band rocking her theme music behind her.



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July 24th, 2016 at 8:22 AM ^

  Last year the NY Phil performed it live at Hill Auditorium (the day after homecoming when Alan Gilbert was part of the halftime show). Bernstein's score was great.

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bluenoteSA80

July 24th, 2016 at 9:02 AM ^

I'm not saying that as a cop-out answer either. If the band/orchestra is filled with skilled musicians, a live performance always beats a recorded one....and as a musician myself, what a boon that would be to the pocketbooks of working musicians.

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YaterSalad

July 24th, 2016 at 9:11 AM ^

Rocky Horror Picture Show ... They've done it at the State where people act out the scenes and sing along on that weird stage like platform below the screen. An addition of band performing the songs would be very cool.

Apart from that, anything John Williams ... Like Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Those would be pretty amazing.

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GoBlueBrooklyn

July 24th, 2016 at 9:41 AM ^

I have been to many live score performances and the top two were probably the 1931 DRACULA (with Bela Lugosi) with a new score by Philip Glass, who performed it live with his ensemble and THERE WILL BE BLOOD with live orchestra that included composer Jonny Greenwood, which was incredible.

I just missed the live NY Phil performance of FANTASIA, as my kids vetoed it (I have work to do) and, at the price, I did not want to risk them squirming for 2 hours in the concert hall. I also missed the recent John Carpenter tour where he was performing his film music, although I am unsure what the film component was.

I've also produced something of this nature with a screening of the Buckminster Fuller documentary, with live score performed by Yo La Tengo, which was beautiful.

Ones I would like to see? I would love to see UNDER THE SKIN with live score (its on Apple Music if you havent heard it), and, crazily, TRON LEGACY, which was scored by Daft Punk which, I would love to see live as it has lots of orchestral and electronic mixed and I think it would be amazing. (EDIT: I see someone mentioned this above while I was typing! Great minds think alike!)

The reason live soundtrack "songs" over the film would never work is the editing of the songs in the film and the fact that, likely, the performance would distract from the film. When done right, the live scores do a beautiful job of amplifying your emotional experience of the film without overwhelming your visual interest in the movie, IMO. as an example, the Glass DRACULA, they sat behind the screen and were illuminated very softly at the bottom of the image, smaller than subtitles. It was amazing to be able to look down and reference them while having this HUGE image of the film to enjoy. 

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Bando Calrissian

July 24th, 2016 at 11:44 AM ^

Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, with the full chorus and everything. The soundtrack was so notoriously poorly recorded, that it's the only real way to get the full effect of Prokofiev's score.

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