Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (Complete Score) - Part 5

[joker9494949494]

7:20 on scares the shit out of me. why didnt they use it?!!? i LOVE iut. jerry goldsmith is a genius. omen, alien, hollowman, any movie he did its genius.

[TemplarReturns]

@joker9494949494 Jerry Goldsmith is so adaptive, he's the personification of a musical chameleon. The Omen especially, I think some of that aesthetic echoes here.

[Triakis2011]

I was sitting there screaming at the screen - "go back, go back" - there is no way that I would have entered that shaft in a million years. It ended in the only it could for Dallas.

[whitebladeofcoolness]

this is my favorite scene from the movie. i still remember when i first saw this film. usually, i try to pick out the guy thats going to survive it all, and i picked Dallas. man was i surprised!

[Etherdave]

You knew Dallas wasn't leaving that air duct alive anyways... no matter what music was playing in the background. It could have been Britney Spears in the background... in fact that might've been scarier...

[naedanger123]

@Etherdave Or maybe even Justin Beiber...

[bostonpiano]

I haven't checked, but-- from the aural sound of the recording (and placement of instruments/mics)--is this the London Symphony performing/recording? Love the score

[RogueRotting360]

@bostonpiano This is the National Philharmonic.

[timdedecker]

For those searching the scary music (used in the movie) before Dallas gets killed in the shaft:

/watch?v=JtFzzvqrL9c

Starts at 04:54! From the movie "Freud"

[lol2434]

Awesome!!

[PapagenoJuan2]

The Dallas theme is classic!!! GET OUT OF THERE FOO, HE IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!! DALLAS!!

[jubolito]

loved it, brutal track.

[plagueofangels666]

THE BEST!

[Asdferfjg]

a robot... ASH IS A GOD DA** ROBOT!!

[BlackieGirl]

I don't know. In this case, I think that I prefer Scott's choice. The score for Freud conveys not only a sense of dread, but also sadness. I, for one, had really grown to like Dallas as a character, and at this point you just KNOW that he's not making it out of that air duct alive. So, I feel that the music as heard in the film, conveys that feeling.

All that being said, I could listen to Goldsmith's score over and over. It's supremely terrifying. So who's to say?

[Ashiman]

you think you re tuff because you listen this , let me tell you, you re spoonfed, mentally.

[juresaiyan]

@BlackieGirl Yeah me to. I really liked Dallas. He had that sort of cool guy thing to him. Like a rock band member of the 60s-70s :D. And you just knew he wouldn't make it to the end of the movie. Right from the very beginning, when the Alien comes on-board. :(

[TemplarReturns]

@BlackieGirl I could definitely agree with you there. Dallas is a very poignant and respectful person, but however, when it comes to ensuring the safety of the Nostromo crew, I love he accepts the fact that he probably wont come back from there alive even though what's after him knows he's there. I never paid attention to the heartbeat sound before, funny how I never noticed it.

This track truly represents the dread and the fate that his crew cannot help him and that there's no turning back.

[videogamer568]

great

[dafmurray]

Still prefer the cues from Goldsmith's score to Freud that Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings retained from the initial temporary track for the air shaft sequecnes with Dallas. Goldsmith's own cues for these scenes don't seem to have as much sense of dread.

[johncarpenter1980]

i (somewhat) agree...but you have to admit that is a pretty creepy track

[Edbrad]

Hey, what do you mean? first you say you prefer Goldsmith's cues, then you say his cues dont have the same sense of dread?

[dafmurray]

Edbrad, I don't think I phrased my comment very well. I meant as much as I love Goldsmith's original score to Alien, for that one scene with Dallas in the air shats, I think Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings choice of Goldmsith's cue 'Desperate Case' from Freud was scarier (and worked amazingly well considering it was written for a completely different kind of movie/scene.) If you search YouTube for 'Freud Part 5 of 14' you'll hear the original cue in the original scene.