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Post by Gnorn on Feb 17, 2005 1:31:39 GMT
Hello all. One of the great features of the album is that the music keeps going on and on, and that one song follows the other. There's constantly music that is sweeping you up.
I hope this will be done for the movie as well, one constant and sweeping soundtrack, not 10 minutes of animation and the out of nowhere Forever Autumn starts to play. But music all the way!
-Gnorn
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 17, 2005 11:55:17 GMT
Thing is, the album and the film are 2 seperate creations. The music (album) provides us with 'musical' visualisation and the film will give us the visualisation that the music gave us in the album.
H_C
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 17, 2005 19:38:49 GMT
I understand what you're saying, H_C but the music doesn't have to be realy audible all the time, but sometimes soft in the background. Anywho, JW will probably get it right whatever way he does it. But since I learned of his movie, I allways invisioned it as a 1 on 1 adaption of the album.
-Gnorn
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 18, 2005 10:35:42 GMT
It could well turn out that way due to time duration
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Post by theheatray on Feb 18, 2005 11:48:20 GMT
Will he keep in line with the original narrative of Richard Burton?
I wonder how he will play the spirit of man scene, will he actualy have his CG characters singing the songs?
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 18, 2005 16:14:14 GMT
It could well turn out that way due to time duration :) Yes, I read that in the other thread. Would be very cool. But we'll just have to wait to find out how the adaption is exactly done. -Gnorn
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Post by HTT on Feb 18, 2005 16:39:16 GMT
The Spirit of man scene could easily translate into film - Cor, I'd love to see a CGI'd Phil Lynott in action! I can just imagine the scene with him ranting his lines, and Beth shaking/slapping him during hers!
Some of the other songs I'm not sure of - Forever Autumn would make a lovely soundscape, but to see someone actually singing it may detract from the visuals you can impart.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 18, 2005 20:00:20 GMT
Indeed, with Forever Autumn they should show fleeing people, the exodus, sad weary people. And with Thunder Child we should see the armada fleeing from the coast and then the big battle.
-Gnorn
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Feb 18, 2005 21:14:56 GMT
With Forever Autumn - I really hope that they recreate the song literally with the journalist gazing up at birds flying south across the autumn sky - plus glimpses of his lost love and maybe winter approaching and leaves blowing about etc. I think that would be very effective.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 18, 2005 21:45:41 GMT
For 'Forever Autumn', scenes of the couple together in happier times would fit nicely, strolls through a park, there feet moving through fallen leafs off tree's, cutting to them looking up together as birds fly over head as it pan's down to reveal a wrecked London, smouldering as Fighting Machine move distanly through the haze.
H_C
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Feb 19, 2005 1:57:26 GMT
Yes, hope Jeff does things as tastefully as humanly possible though. The last thing we want is Mills & Boon meets the Martians!
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 19, 2005 21:51:53 GMT
For 'Forever Autumn', scenes of the couple together in happier times would fit nicely, strolls through a park, there feet moving through fallen leafs off tree's, cutting to them looking up together as birds fly over head as it pan's down to reveal a wrecked London, smouldering as Fighting Machine move distanly through the haze. H_C I'd want to see a frog playing banjo followed by u bunch happy animals. -Gnorn
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Feb 19, 2005 22:53:06 GMT
How about a load of rabbits running around then trying to cross a road. They could write in a new song about 'Bright Eyes' about car headlamps.. Oh, that's already been done.. Seriously though, I really like the idea of the main songs being illustrated by scenes which are symbolic of the wording. The rest of the film could be set to orchestral arrangements of some of the themes or even some instrumental remixes.. Sort of like the video game versions of the tunes from the album. Forever Autumn is a love song, and, although I'm not really a fan of love songs, it's a damn good and evocative one. I'm sure Jeff will get the balance right.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 19, 2005 22:59:19 GMT
It's more of a lost-love song.
-Gnorn
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 20, 2005 19:49:24 GMT
i'm hoping that forever autumn is NOT in this movie. in fact, i'm hoping that this movie isn't a musical at all, but an actual movie with a normal soundtrack. sure, the main theme can be based on the soundtrack, but i really don't want to see a musical on the screen, like phantom of the opera or chicago... thats what the album is for.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 20, 2005 20:12:44 GMT
Now, I have now idea to how true this is. This is something I have known about for many a year after reading it (god knows where or when) but 'Forever Autumn' was originaly never intended for TWOTW album, a kind of after thought. A track made soley for the 'Moody Blues' but then put into TWOTW album after it was 'liked' and OK'd. . . As I say, it was something I read a very long time ago so I really have no idea if it's true.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Feb 20, 2005 22:10:11 GMT
Now, I have now idea to how true this is. This is something I have known about for many a year after reading it (god knows where or when) but 'Forever Autumn' was originaly never intended for TWOTW album, a kind of after thought. A track made soley for the 'Moody Blues' but then put into TWOTW album after it was 'liked' and OK'd. . . As I say, it was something I read a very long time ago so I really have no idea if it's true. I'm sure I've heard that as well.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 20, 2005 22:21:38 GMT
Never heard of it, but I can imagine it to be true. All the other songs are illustrating the subject which is song about. Forever Autumn is more poetic, so to speak. Still like the song, though...
-Gnorn
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Feb 21, 2005 0:50:12 GMT
I can see both sides... It works well as an illustration of the Narrator's separation from Carrie but it's also a bit of a digression from the rest of the themes in the album which follow the novel closer. But, it's been part of the album in the twenty or so years since I first heard it and deserves to be included, I think.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 21, 2005 1:00:10 GMT
Deserves? MUST be included. Since besides Eve of the war, it is the most distinctive song of the album. Without it, it's not JW's WotW.
-Gnorn
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