This is the music (a tune he called 'LEnfant) chosen as the theme for Chariots of Fire and when you see the characters on the beach running this is the music they are running to, but at the last minute, Vangelis wrote ANOTHER masterpiece to use in that film. Watch the opening of Chariots of Fire without sound and play this at the same time - you'll see it fits nicely.
dam it, im from indonesia and i dont know about this movie till know, my fuckn goverment is shit ,try to scare us with some communist ghost!! , btw this is good movie, i mean, the set, how they talk 98% like a real us, except for steering wheel, in that picture in the left, the real is on the right,
Please do your research before you make claims. Maurice Jarre did the score, but this scene, music was composed by Vangelis. It's from his L'Opera Sauvage (L'enfant)
@Mayalla But why does your description state it's not on the OST? (do you mean original sound track?). Of course it is most definitely on the original sound track, original print, original release. It's in the film. Please correct your description.
@humbleradio It's not on the commercially released soundtrack. If you buy a CD that says "Year of Living Dangerously" you will not find this song on it. Supposedly the director added Vangelis' song at the last minute, and that is why it is not credited in the film and does not appear on the soundtrack.
@ChristiaanVDA Commercially released soundtracks are often quite different than the actual soundtrack. Sometimes songs are added that were not in the film yet are on the 'commercial soundtrack' such as on "The Big Chill" and other albums. Also, the reverse is true, where songs in the film are not released on the commercial soundtrack album. In both cases it usually has to do with rights. Vangelis chose not to have it released on another album. Same with his "Blade Runner" score (he finally did).
@DogDevilman Il ne me plait pas la musique de film seulmente Williams je suis fanatique du l'opera et la musique clasique je aussi suis auter si tu cherche mon nome sur google tu me trouberai "Truvianni" excuse mon mauvais Francais ma je suis Americain ma je parles Francais
WTF you dunno who composed this?NOT MAURICE JARRE,VANGELIS!!!WRITE VANGELIS,title of the track "L ENFANT" and you will find it.If you still not believe us,go to some Vangelis site and see his albums.Then,select "Opera Sauvage" and you will find it on this album.
I know Linda Hunt deserved the academy award, she was phenomenal.
But Ms Weaver nailed this scene. Perfectly directed. PERFECT music. Subtle but evident change in expression from Bembol Roco as he answers the door - he captured even that detail.
This is all about trust. I think this is my favorite scene from any movie.
Ms. Weaver did a great job, but her follow up movies probably made her a lot of money, but they were definitely inferior to her performance in this movie.
An underrated movie, and an underrated performance.
wonderful film of 1982 by peter weir! a love story (mel gibson and sigourney weaver) unfolding amidst the political chaos during sukarno's regime in 1965 indonesia. vangelis's score (l'enfant of opera sauvage) is haunting. for portraying the role of (male) billy kwan the great linda hunt won the academy award for best supporting actress. go for this movie!
It is track number 3 from Opéra sauvage(a soundtrack for a nature documentary by the same name) by Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou or Vangelis as we all know him, this song should be way more popular then it is
@magarac02 wrong. The OST was done by Maurice but this track is by Vangelis from his Opera Sauvage. Vangelis' L'Enfant Please use the search function to find it right here on Youtube.
@Mayalla You are confusing the terms 'score' with 'sound track'. Score is the music composed for a film. Sound track is any music, pop music, classical, and scored music that is USED in a film. This piece by Vangelis IS ON THE SOUND TRACK, but not scored for the film. See the difference? Don't be rude to people because they say it's Maurice Jarre. That's a common mistake since Jarre is the composer of the film score.
on my first tour in iraq we took fire in a open market. jumped into an apartment building for cover and while making our way to the roof i could hear this song being played from within one of the apartments. a lot of screaming and yelling and shooting incoming and out and all i could think of is where id heard this before. got home and after a bit of research i found it. id seen the movie as a kid but couldnt place the music when i heard it in iraq. ill never forget that day and this song.
@MrPutasemea nope. ive done 2 iraq tours and one a-stan. how come i cant visit your page? did you block me even before i could reply? what a pussy you are.
Great, great cinema. You have to get both the original soundtrack (Jarre) and the Vangelis album to get all the music. It was not put together in one single collection.
@cesar1e1 Hi Cesare1e1 Yes, you are right that the main composer is Maurice Jarre of the soundtrack except for this track. It is from Vangelis' Opera Sauvage and is called L'Enfant. This track,although really in the movie, was not added to the Official Soundtrack and Vangelis never really got the credit for it as far as I know.
@Mayalla, you said"This track,although really in the movie, was not added to the Official Soundtrack and Vangelis never really got the credit for it as far as I know."
Yes, in the IMDb entry for this movie, under Soundtrack, it lists Vangelis and the Opera Sauvage as being uncredited.
By the way, this is a wonderful clip, thanks for posting it.
@cesar1e1 its definitly vangelis and its not very hard to find out either it evan sounds like vangelis , maurice jarre's music is completely different
I didn't care much for the movie, but the music and this particular scene, I thought, were brilliant. I taped and kept the movie years ago, just for this scene.
The country is on the verge of civil war and she only wants to go be with the man she's fallen in love with. POWERFUL!!!
Combining that with L'Enfant by Vangelis makes this an INCREDIBLE scene...a CLASSIC one actually! And how can one go wrong with using Vangelis anyway?
I was SO blown away when I saw this for the first time not long ago. WHAT A SCENE!!
Haunting song from a brilliant movie. Peter Weir at his finest. Perfect unison of music and celluloid merged. Sigorney looks great in the rain, the driving beat throughout the scene, watching her discover that with all of the chaos around her and how hopeless it all seems, she is able to find sanctuary with Mel Gibson's embrace and kiss. Very poignant and romantic scene. I own both the soundtrack album and several of Vangelis's works. He was highly underated for his ability and talent.
Yeah I couldn't agree more...this song haunts me even to this day..like a gateway to the past of things that are lost forever... like time..memories..sad like a reflection..
thank you for post! same great music happens in film when they do car get-away - most romantic scene in all movies ever I think! - more even than this scene!) - who has it? where?
Me too--took me the longest time to find it. Had to write to an advert agency that had used the theme in a commercial. Still a great soundtrack by Maurice Jarre.
When I hear this soundtrack it reminds me of a portal of sorts. Like a window to the past...past loves, events -- things lost forever. Very erie. But very beautiful. You don't want to listen, but at same time you do.
Sorry, Elizabeth, I gave the incorrect impression. The Year of Living Dangerously takes place not in Cambodia 1975 but in Indonesia, in 1965. My overhasty writing gave the wrong impression.
And, in a selective memory, the West remembers the Pol Pot massacres but not the massacres of Communists and left-wingers in 1965.
The Laurens van der Post novel is not about love but about the personal and the political.
Sorry, I miswrote (is that even a word?), too. I knew the movie is set in Indonesia because that's where Sukarno was.
I was referring only to the movie. I think it's a romance, not a political movie. The advance knowledge that comes between the lovers could have been that of enemy troop movement or weapons development had the movie been set in WWII. It is how that knowledge affects their relationship that's the core of the movie, I think.
As a movie it can be watched and enjoyed apolitically by a person unaware of what happened. However, the book by Laurens van der Post was political.
Peter Weir, here and in Gallipoli, tries to integrate the person into a larger social context. Here, it is Indonesia 1965: in Gallipoli, the slaughter of Australian men in WWI.
It's a political romance, then, like Casablanca. In fact, the ending quotes Casablanca, being set at an airport.
Though I haven'r read the novel, I can't watch the movie without being keenly aware of the political situation. The most poignant part of it for me was Billy Kwan unfurling his banner.
This movie is about the moral compromises of the Cold War. It was years before I could make myself sit through it, because it was so painfully similar to my experiences in Vietnam. Not that I had any love affairs over there, oh no.
This film is about betrayal on a personal and political level. It is set in a time right before Vietnam would become the world's focus. Southeast Asia was a powder keg.
The film turns on the idea that IF Mel Gibson stays in Jakarta he will be killed. In actuality, his assistants are in far greater danger, while Western journalists were unharmed in the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia.
No, this film turns on the idea that Mel Gibson has to make a choice between his career and his love. The political upheaval in Cambodia is there only to provide an element of conflict and an exciting backdrop, exactly what I'd expect to find in a wartime romance since those are, in fact, the two chief components of the genre.
I love this movie. The music rocks although the best kissing scene with this music is played while they are making out after leaving the party! The scence rocks. Thanks for posting.
The composer is definitely Vangelis and was wonderful. I only bought the soundtrack of the film for this track, to find that it wasnt on it and so I had to buy Opera Sauvage where it is. Still cant believe recording company did that, so stupid, IMO and disappointing.
Hey. You might like the movie "Indochine" - it's French, set in what is now Vietnam and is a bit like A Year of Living Dangerously. Music's not as good though...
And how about The Scent of Green Papaya? Not much story or plot but also set in Viet Nam, I think; visually exquisite and with Western classical music.
IthinkI implicated "intentions" as a puentaDo YouThinkThatMelWouldBe happy never trying to use information from Siguery , bothHad lesson to do (Billy Loved her). Mel was very idealistic the truth as a value itself was very important to him he deceived her somehow for this value, Billy didn't care about the truth case he cared only about her in this moment.focusing on one thing we rally desire can harm in some way (how do You know they did what they really desired?)anyway i also belive they did;)
I know that that type of answer may not satisfy You, Mel Gibsons assistant wouldn/t be satisfied for sure ;) because it is a bit naive but still beautiful
there Is Strongly Said In This movie that the most important thing is our intentions. Like in this dramatic moment when the Mel Gibson's assistant asking "am I stupid"
without moralizing (that we can do whatever we want thru hard work(capitalism) or we can be civilization of love;) socialism) describing situation that everything even the best ideology might be derailed cause of our intentions.
she wants that big austrailaian cock inside her
tgrman1 2 weeks ago
You can easily tell that this is a Vangelis track. Just listen to it.
huikuri 1 month ago
This music was from an Old Style Beer commercial in the early 1980s
gaguy1967 1 month ago
What happened to good movies like this? The amount of crap that passes for movies today is a shame.
scifi75 1 month ago
she wants that astraulian dick in her british cunt
tgrman1 1 month ago
this is what god made women for and god made man for , the end
tgrman1 1 month ago
With the music score this is one of the most erotic love scenes in movie making. So suggestive and powerful.
october71777 2 months ago
This is the music (a tune he called 'LEnfant) chosen as the theme for Chariots of Fire and when you see the characters on the beach running this is the music they are running to, but at the last minute, Vangelis wrote ANOTHER masterpiece to use in that film. Watch the opening of Chariots of Fire without sound and play this at the same time - you'll see it fits nicely.
poetcomic1 3 months ago
"A Vangelis track composed for the film, L'Enfant, also featured on his album Opera Sauvage."
humbleradio 4 months ago
This absolutely was in the film. And it's 'The' Year of Living Dangerously".
humbleradio 4 months ago
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Vangelis= REAL music unlike the GARBAGE of today
Tranqvillia= The new hope for Music
SpiritMolecule1 5 months ago
Whenever I hear this I think of the fainting kittens and cry a little.
ba55dr0pped 6 months ago
EPIC Greatness.
taffydavenport1965 6 months ago
It's VANGELIS = King of simple yet powerful and memorable melodies.
LemmyDecaution 7 months ago
One of the most emotional films i have ever seen. this was back when films were great....Sigourney Weaver and Monsr Gibson were excellent in this
MovieMad007 8 months ago 3
dam it, im from indonesia and i dont know about this movie till know, my fuckn goverment is shit ,try to scare us with some communist ghost!! , btw this is good movie, i mean, the set, how they talk 98% like a real us, except for steering wheel, in that picture in the left, the real is on the right,
RUDZ1982 9 months ago
Know the original name of the song? I would have it, I love this song
bertillo91 10 months ago
@bertillo91
L'Enfant by Vangelis and available on albums like his Best Of...
TrefyJot 7 months ago
c'est bien ce qui me semblait; ce n'est pas vangelis qui a composer cette musique,mais MAURICE JARRE
DogDevilman 11 months ago 2
@DogDevilman
Please do your research before you make claims. Maurice Jarre did the score, but this scene, music was composed by Vangelis. It's from his L'Opera Sauvage (L'enfant)
Mayalla 11 months ago 10
@Mayalla Effectively I made a mistake.
It is good a music consisted by Vangelis.
Excuse I
DogDevilman 11 months ago
@Mayalla But why does your description state it's not on the OST? (do you mean original sound track?). Of course it is most definitely on the original sound track, original print, original release. It's in the film. Please correct your description.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@humbleradio It's not on the commercially released soundtrack. If you buy a CD that says "Year of Living Dangerously" you will not find this song on it. Supposedly the director added Vangelis' song at the last minute, and that is why it is not credited in the film and does not appear on the soundtrack.
ChristiaanVDA 3 months ago
@ChristiaanVDA Commercially released soundtracks are often quite different than the actual soundtrack. Sometimes songs are added that were not in the film yet are on the 'commercial soundtrack' such as on "The Big Chill" and other albums. Also, the reverse is true, where songs in the film are not released on the commercial soundtrack album. In both cases it usually has to do with rights. Vangelis chose not to have it released on another album. Same with his "Blade Runner" score (he finally did).
humbleradio 3 months ago
@DogDevilman c'est le pere de Jean Michel Jarre?
truvianni 7 months ago
@truvianni OUI
DogDevilman 7 months ago
@DogDevilman Merci bien je pense comme ca ma je ne te pas etre bien sur
truvianni 7 months ago
@truvianni Il y a un autre compositeur qui est bien
c'est Michael Garrison ;il etait Américain.
ecoute ses musiques
DogDevilman 7 months ago
@DogDevilman Il ne me plait pas la musique de film seulmente Williams je suis fanatique du l'opera et la musique clasique je aussi suis auter si tu cherche mon nome sur google tu me trouberai "Truvianni" excuse mon mauvais Francais ma je suis Americain ma je parles Francais
truvianni 7 months ago
@truvianni ne t'inquiete pas
j'arrive a déchifrer ton français
tu est fan de musique classique et d'opéra
DogDevilman 7 months ago
WTF you dunno who composed this?NOT MAURICE JARRE,VANGELIS!!!WRITE VANGELIS,title of the track "L ENFANT" and you will find it.If you still not believe us,go to some Vangelis site and see his albums.Then,select "Opera Sauvage" and you will find it on this album.
WolfgangAmadeusF 1 year ago
Forget, Alien and Avatar, this is the movie I will always remember Sigourney Weaver.
C3F6D4 1 year ago
this music is so passionate and haunting at the same time.. moves right through
i think sigourney weaver was an incredibly beautiful woman. in this movie ...
billyva45 1 year ago
getting all i couldn't do today
Europa2099 1 year ago
@ssgoder Please give a line of connection to Petra from Europe (you may choose the method, but it should be fast)!
Europa2099 1 year ago
I know Linda Hunt deserved the academy award, she was phenomenal.
But Ms Weaver nailed this scene. Perfectly directed. PERFECT music. Subtle but evident change in expression from Bembol Roco as he answers the door - he captured even that detail.
This is all about trust. I think this is my favorite scene from any movie.
RAF71chingachgook 1 year ago
@RAF71chingachgook
Ms. Weaver did a great job, but her follow up movies probably made her a lot of money, but they were definitely inferior to her performance in this movie.
An underrated movie, and an underrated performance.
C3F6D4 1 year ago
j'adore....
MothersHour 1 year ago
Vangelis - L'enfant agh it's fucking stuck in my head....tune!
cofpaddy 1 year ago
Vangelis - L'Enfant, Great film scene+song pairing
cofpaddy 1 year ago
What is the matter with you people. The late great Maurice Jarre composed this.
07drew70 1 year ago
@07drew70 No need to be rude. You are wrong. If you read the comments you will find out why. Thanks for playing.
Mayalla 1 year ago 8
@Mayalla
I bought the soundtrack specifically for this song. To my disappointment, it was not on the CD. Later I found out it was a Vangelis song.
C3F6D4 1 year ago
@07drew70
I thought so too, for years. Jarre composed the movie's score, but this gorgeous theme is from Opéra Sauvage, is called l'Enfant and is by Vangelis.
Like so many pieces by Vangelis, this one helped to MAKE this film, helped it to resonate with the audience.
OronOfMontreal 1 year ago
Nothing short of fabulous...
gatorbait51 1 year ago
wonderful film of 1982 by peter weir! a love story (mel gibson and sigourney weaver) unfolding amidst the political chaos during sukarno's regime in 1965 indonesia. vangelis's score (l'enfant of opera sauvage) is haunting. for portraying the role of (male) billy kwan the great linda hunt won the academy award for best supporting actress. go for this movie!
nico19611 1 year ago
lady gaga and all the other over made hooker looking entertainers, take note....a real woman that attracts real men.
ssgoder 1 year ago 2
She's hot.
Druid1tothe10th 1 year ago
Astounding movie. Depicting a threatening, but beckoning part of the world.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
It is track number 3 from Opéra sauvage(a soundtrack for a nature documentary by the same name) by Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou or Vangelis as we all know him, this song should be way more popular then it is
eyesofvenus 1 year ago
Maurice Jarre please correct
magarac02 1 year ago
@magarac02 wrong. The OST was done by Maurice but this track is by Vangelis from his Opera Sauvage. Vangelis' L'Enfant Please use the search function to find it right here on Youtube.
Mayalla 1 year ago 16
@Mayalla Any fan of Vangelis know whats tune it is like. Some people are just stubborn idiots huh...
cofpaddy 1 year ago
@Mayalla You are confusing the terms 'score' with 'sound track'. Score is the music composed for a film. Sound track is any music, pop music, classical, and scored music that is USED in a film. This piece by Vangelis IS ON THE SOUND TRACK, but not scored for the film. See the difference? Don't be rude to people because they say it's Maurice Jarre. That's a common mistake since Jarre is the composer of the film score.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@magarac02 Vangelis composed it? It's off his Opera Sauvage album. Correct yourself.
cofpaddy 1 year ago
this is one of those songs that you never forget
zoozoobugz 1 year ago 2
I love this movie... it reminds me of a particular year...
fal2grace 1 year ago
Vangelis' L'Enfant - Awesome
cofpaddy 1 year ago
on my first tour in iraq we took fire in a open market. jumped into an apartment building for cover and while making our way to the roof i could hear this song being played from within one of the apartments. a lot of screaming and yelling and shooting incoming and out and all i could think of is where id heard this before. got home and after a bit of research i found it. id seen the movie as a kid but couldnt place the music when i heard it in iraq. ill never forget that day and this song.
ssgoder 1 year ago 65
@ssgoder Thank you for your powerful comment. Honoured!
Mayalla 1 year ago 2
@Mayalla I mean no disrespect, but pleaase leave us alone...LD/coda 461 Marblehead
Nam
ssgoder we ain't leaving you behind... hang in there kid; 461 knows people
tim41710 1 year ago
@ssgoder damn bro that is a very compelling & interesting story you experienced; I bet that theme has left an indelible impression on your psyche.
judaschongo 1 year ago
@ssgoder Holy sh*t, man. Helluva story.
spfoley1 1 year ago
@ssgoder That is a story the world should be able to hear.
ShelterDogs 1 year ago
@ssgoder Yawn. And then you rolled out of bed and remembered it was all a big dream.
MrPutasemea 1 year ago
@MrPutasemea nope. ive done 2 iraq tours and one a-stan. how come i cant visit your page? did you block me even before i could reply? what a pussy you are.
ssgoder 1 year ago
@ssgoder excellent description of what must have felt like a totally unreal event.
ginesjj 1 year ago
@ssgoder
That is an amazing story, ssgoder. Gave me the chills. I also thank you for sharing it with us.
OronOfMontreal 1 year ago
@ssgoder Life is so bizzare I don't think I'm ever going to forget your comment.
egoriskarma 1 year ago
@ssgoder do you like this song?
leavesyoubreathless 11 months ago
@ssgoder About as cool a story as they come. Thanks for serving.
kolbpilot 6 months ago 2
Great, great cinema. You have to get both the original soundtrack (Jarre) and the Vangelis album to get all the music. It was not put together in one single collection.
Edenegirl 1 year ago
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cesar1e1 1 year ago
@cesar1e1 Hi Cesare1e1 Yes, you are right that the main composer is Maurice Jarre of the soundtrack except for this track. It is from Vangelis' Opera Sauvage and is called L'Enfant. This track,although really in the movie, was not added to the Official Soundtrack and Vangelis never really got the credit for it as far as I know.
Mayalla 1 year ago
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@Mayalla, you said"This track,although really in the movie, was not added to the Official Soundtrack and Vangelis never really got the credit for it as far as I know."
Yes, in the IMDb entry for this movie, under Soundtrack, it lists Vangelis and the Opera Sauvage as being uncredited.
By the way, this is a wonderful clip, thanks for posting it.
4Topwood 1 year ago
@cesar1e1 If you look at v=3kRS4pkrBqE (use to replace the last bit on this URL) you can see the proof. :)
Mayalla 1 year ago
@cesar1e1 its definitly vangelis and its not very hard to find out either it evan sounds like vangelis , maurice jarre's music is completely different
luckypop23 1 year ago
I didn't care much for the movie, but the music and this particular scene, I thought, were brilliant. I taped and kept the movie years ago, just for this scene.
GaryG660 1 year ago
WHAT A POWERFUL CINEMATIC MOMENT!!
The country is on the verge of civil war and she only wants to go be with the man she's fallen in love with. POWERFUL!!!
Combining that with L'Enfant by Vangelis makes this an INCREDIBLE scene...a CLASSIC one actually! And how can one go wrong with using Vangelis anyway?
I was SO blown away when I saw this for the first time not long ago. WHAT A SCENE!!
seekingsnavely 1 year ago 5
@seekingsnavely she realized it was all falling apart... love this movie.
fal2grace 1 year ago 2
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cesar1e1 1 year ago
Great film. Great music.
ChesapeakeBeach 1 year ago
Okay - so from 0:07 to 0:13 -
I thought that noise was the bed creaking under their new-found lust.
I was like, "God he's FAST!"
Turns out it was a teletype - jokes on me.
Ha.
carell5 1 year ago
Beautiful.
johnnyphoenix74 2 years ago 3
BRILLIANT!!
seekingsnavely 2 years ago
Thank you Mr100bills
chainsaw1971 2 years ago
great one of the greats
go vangelis
freed10000 2 years ago
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cesar1e1 1 year ago
i love it when there sitting at that dock bar and their drinking those green drinks..
reminds me alot of Im in the mood for love.
Mr100bills 2 years ago
That's one of my favourite scenes as well.
Mayalla 2 years ago
It s hot
chainsaw1971 2 years ago
Lovely...
chainsaw1971 2 years ago
That is so fucking HOT!!! I loveit.
see21lady 2 years ago
Love ya alu baby boo!!
bdelezo 2 years ago
love this film and soundtrack..
ty for posting
Mr100bills 2 years ago
is there a sountrack??
chainsaw1971 2 years ago
@chainsaw1971 yes..if i can find it i send it to you.
Mr100bills 2 years ago
@chainsaw1971 ive sent it to you..enjoy
Mr100bills 2 years ago
Gorgeous. No other words for this.
johnnyphoenix74 2 years ago
ah Goblok kau Tolol
lu kagak tasu ape ape tt bahasa kite jangan
hina org betokaw !
ente mo pendekin hiduplu biangkerok
Sungkawa 2 years ago
the scene needed no words....
madmelgibson 2 years ago 3
This piece was nearly used as the opening music for "Chariots Of Fire", until Vangelis wrote "Themes" at the last moment.
firstmusic00 2 years ago
This is such a beautiful movie
tonylee1973 2 years ago 4
Just say NO to Western sensualism.
bleucheese14 2 years ago
No to cheese, even if it's bleu!
JavaCertified 2 years ago
Had a previous version of this song as one of my favorites, then it got pulled. Glad it's back: so simple and beautiful.
videostrategies 2 years ago
I love it too and find it sexy
novasun07 2 years ago
This scene has to be one of the hottest, sexiest scenes in a film. Shows nothing, but says it all.
dbirdwell 2 years ago 7
Love this piece of tune!
Matches perfectly to the movie.
claus250 2 years ago 5
hypnotic
billyva45 2 years ago 2
i can play this on keyboard :D awesome song :D
abdab9404 2 years ago
Great song from one of my all time fav movies.
patjmiii 2 years ago
Haunting song from a brilliant movie. Peter Weir at his finest. Perfect unison of music and celluloid merged. Sigorney looks great in the rain, the driving beat throughout the scene, watching her discover that with all of the chaos around her and how hopeless it all seems, she is able to find sanctuary with Mel Gibson's embrace and kiss. Very poignant and romantic scene. I own both the soundtrack album and several of Vangelis's works. He was highly underated for his ability and talent.
LSUTexasTiger 2 years ago 7
Yeah I couldn't agree more...this song haunts me even to this day..like a gateway to the past of things that are lost forever... like time..memories..sad like a reflection..
ForeverSoul 2 years ago 2
You got that right ! bravo
4535210 2 years ago
too late for the french foreign legion
joining doctors without borders
marek4400 2 years ago
I remember that song on Chariots Of Fire too
saanzacs 2 years ago
totally different song, dude. Try again.
uricehe4 2 years ago
thank you for post! same great music happens in film when they do car get-away - most romantic scene in all movies ever I think! - more even than this scene!) - who has it? where?
soyyoroaldo 2 years ago
What a great scene!
sillguy 2 years ago
thank you so much for posting this piece of music. i had purchased the soundtrack years ago only to find this important piece was missing.
OriginalScratch 2 years ago 2
Yes, I remember that, too. Wasn't that the craziest thing ever...
reepicheep66 2 years ago
Me too--took me the longest time to find it. Had to write to an advert agency that had used the theme in a commercial. Still a great soundtrack by Maurice Jarre.
jeepersfreepers 2 years ago
When I hear this soundtrack it reminds me of a portal of sorts. Like a window to the past...past loves, events -- things lost forever. Very erie. But very beautiful. You don't want to listen, but at same time you do.
heavydutyjohnson 2 years ago 5
This movie made my heart melt:) And the music's amazing...
fal2grace 2 years ago 3
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stagflation2010 2 years ago
One of the greatest movies ever. Linda Hunt was brilliant. Mel Gibson&Sigourney Weaver - perfect screen couple
Magnolia296 2 years ago 5
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Marycarmenrod 2 years ago
Onje of the BEST MOVIES EVER and great score too
dreyer3421 2 years ago 3
can't agree more
genius direction, acting and music!
pennyfritz 2 years ago 2
a terrific track...
and a great film..
cuttysark1976 2 years ago 2
does anyone have this track??
cesca11076 3 years ago
l`enfant vangelis
5735740 2 years ago
does anyone have this track??
Yes I have it, uncut and on my computer
JeffreyP506 2 years ago
the most touching movie i ever seen
dvandenm 3 years ago
Sorry, Elizabeth, I gave the incorrect impression. The Year of Living Dangerously takes place not in Cambodia 1975 but in Indonesia, in 1965. My overhasty writing gave the wrong impression.
And, in a selective memory, the West remembers the Pol Pot massacres but not the massacres of Communists and left-wingers in 1965.
The Laurens van der Post novel is not about love but about the personal and the political.
spinoza1111 3 years ago
Sorry, I miswrote (is that even a word?), too. I knew the movie is set in Indonesia because that's where Sukarno was.
I was referring only to the movie. I think it's a romance, not a political movie. The advance knowledge that comes between the lovers could have been that of enemy troop movement or weapons development had the movie been set in WWII. It is how that knowledge affects their relationship that's the core of the movie, I think.
ElizabethTalbot 3 years ago
As a movie it can be watched and enjoyed apolitically by a person unaware of what happened. However, the book by Laurens van der Post was political.
Peter Weir, here and in Gallipoli, tries to integrate the person into a larger social context. Here, it is Indonesia 1965: in Gallipoli, the slaughter of Australian men in WWI.
It's a political romance, then, like Casablanca. In fact, the ending quotes Casablanca, being set at an airport.
spinoza1111 3 years ago
Though I haven'r read the novel, I can't watch the movie without being keenly aware of the political situation. The most poignant part of it for me was Billy Kwan unfurling his banner.
ElizabethTalbot 2 years ago
This movie is about the moral compromises of the Cold War. It was years before I could make myself sit through it, because it was so painfully similar to my experiences in Vietnam. Not that I had any love affairs over there, oh no.
Axgoodofdunemaul 2 years ago
This film is about betrayal on a personal and political level. It is set in a time right before Vietnam would become the world's focus. Southeast Asia was a powder keg.
cameronobscura22 3 years ago
The film turns on the idea that IF Mel Gibson stays in Jakarta he will be killed. In actuality, his assistants are in far greater danger, while Western journalists were unharmed in the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia.
Orientalist.
spinoza1111 3 years ago
No, this film turns on the idea that Mel Gibson has to make a choice between his career and his love. The political upheaval in Cambodia is there only to provide an element of conflict and an exciting backdrop, exactly what I'd expect to find in a wartime romance since those are, in fact, the two chief components of the genre.
ElizabethTalbot 3 years ago
I love this movie. The music rocks although the best kissing scene with this music is played while they are making out after leaving the party! The scence rocks. Thanks for posting.
yorugua97 3 years ago
The composer is Maurice Jarre AND NOT vangelis!
chrissieTheChris 3 years ago
wrong.. the composer is vangelis
Jwofl 3 years ago
The composer is definitely Vangelis and was wonderful. I only bought the soundtrack of the film for this track, to find that it wasnt on it and so I had to buy Opera Sauvage where it is. Still cant believe recording company did that, so stupid, IMO and disappointing.
efcvs 3 years ago
Don't listen to her, UK kills animals!
termi21 3 years ago
Hey termi, what's happened?
efcvs 3 years ago
Yeah, I know how you feel. I was so ticked off I nearly tossed the alumn out the window.
JeffreyP506 2 years ago
It is Vangelis. I used to have the soundtrack.
kingwilson06ad 3 years ago
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WhiteWorldLord 1 year ago
@chrissieTheChris Get your facts straight, the composer is Vangelis and NOT Maurice Jarre!
The name of the track is L'enfant, from Vangelis' 1979 album, Opera Sauvage!
WhiteWorldLord 1 year ago
This is the pefect theme fo this film - throbbing and sultry and strange. Love it. You can feel the sweaty, heavy tropical weather.
CherryGarrard 3 years ago
So I'm not the only one who sweated her way through this?
"Throbbing and sultry and strange" is just about perfect.
ElizabethTalbot 3 years ago
Hey. You might like the movie "Indochine" - it's French, set in what is now Vietnam and is a bit like A Year of Living Dangerously. Music's not as good though...
CherryGarrard 3 years ago
Saw Indochine, loved it.
And how about The Scent of Green Papaya? Not much story or plot but also set in Viet Nam, I think; visually exquisite and with Western classical music.
ElizabethTalbot 3 years ago
Play it at Xmas, at night, with the tree lights on. It works then too!
JeffreyP506 2 years ago
Truly excellent music. Beguiling.
21shergar 3 years ago
true, You may be right.
HansVonMigel 3 years ago
IthinkI implicated "intentions" as a puentaDo YouThinkThatMelWouldBe happy never trying to use information from Siguery , bothHad lesson to do (Billy Loved her). Mel was very idealistic the truth as a value itself was very important to him he deceived her somehow for this value, Billy didn't care about the truth case he cared only about her in this moment.focusing on one thing we rally desire can harm in some way (how do You know they did what they really desired?)anyway i also belive they did;)
HansVonMigel 3 years ago
I know that that type of answer may not satisfy You, Mel Gibsons assistant wouldn/t be satisfied for sure ;) because it is a bit naive but still beautiful
HansVonMigel 3 years ago
there Is Strongly Said In This movie that the most important thing is our intentions. Like in this dramatic moment when the Mel Gibson's assistant asking "am I stupid"
without moralizing (that we can do whatever we want thru hard work(capitalism) or we can be civilization of love;) socialism) describing situation that everything even the best ideology might be derailed cause of our intentions.
HansVonMigel 3 years ago
but those are rhetoric already:)
HansVonMigel 3 years ago
vangelis is the best greek musician
mikegrecia 3 years ago 3
I so much love this beautiful melody
thanks for upload
12gaAutomatic 3 years ago 9
Thank you very much for posting this clip. Awesome
Heathingoilferrari 3 years ago
Weaver at her most attractive....until Galaxy Quest.
Beguiling music.
21shergar 3 years ago
i like this movie because it bring us a lot of answers
HansVonMigel 3 years ago 4
So 1980's ..takes you back
yodasteveo 3 years ago
Great music. Vangelis at his very best
panathatube 3 years ago 17
Loved this movie + score,
+ such a damn HOT woman she is
SorPasser 3 years ago 3
Sigourney Weaver was damn hot
dreyer3421 3 years ago 7
Have never seen this film properly as only ever seen this part as love this piece of music! Superb track!
trojka35 3 years ago