The Most Inspirational Piece Of Flim Music...ever!

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Title: Going The Distance
Composer: Bill Conti
Film: Rocky

Why: Apollo Creed, the heavyweight champion of the world, comes into this fight as the overwhelming favourite to win and win easily. In his professional career he has, up until this point, never even been knocked down never mind beaten and his opponent has seemingly got everything going against him; class, power, heart, skill etc.

The fight begins and Apollo dances around the ring, showboating for the crowd and taunting his opponent, who appears to be taking this fight very seriously. A few quick jabs from Apollo land on Rocky's face and makes way for more taunts and jeers. Then, a momentary lapse of concentration from Apollo and Rocky lands a massive right hook, knocking Apollo to the floor. Apollo gets up quickly but looks stunned and completely embarrassed. He lays into Rocky with a barrage of punches and by the end of the round Rocky looks way out of his depth, nose broken and eye bleeding.

During the interval, Apollo's trainer pleads "Finish this bum and lets go home....he doesn't know this is an exhibition...he thinks it's a fight...finish this bum and lets go home!"

Round 2 begins and Apollo comes out with all guns blazing, no taunts, no jeers, no lapses in concentration. All-out attack. He lands punch after punch after punch, but Rocky fights back and lands some devastating blows to the champions body and face. Rocky seems sure of a knockout as he reigns blows down on Apollo....the bell goes for the end of round 2...both fighters keep punching...the referee tries to break them up....each fighter push and verbally attack the other.....Apollo - "Come on Stallion...."....Rocky: "You ain't so bad....you ain't so bad....".....the ringside commentator: "Looks like we are in for World War 3...."

CUE "GOING THE DISTANCE" TO ACCOMPANY FOOTAGE OF THE REST OF THE FIGHT UP UNTIL ITS EMOTIONAL CLIMAX.

Pass me a hanky... :cry:
 
Perhaps inspirational is the wrong word but I always thought the music in Jaws added to the viewer's expereience as you knew something nasty was going to happen but didn't know what.

Only worked the first couple of times you watched it though.
 
nothing to do with this really but the Green Mile is on at 10pm tonight, awesome film.....keep the tissues handy if you watch.
 
Never heard of it An, but got this review from a google search....

Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial 1973 film stars Marlon Brando as an expatriate American in Paris reeling from his wife's suicide and entering into a nihilistic sexual relationship with a young woman (Maria Schneider). The film is still shocking, not simply because of its (sometime unconventional) sexual sequences, but because Brando's protagonist needs his liaison with Schneider's character to remain anonymous, an experience not to be shared but indulged on either end. Bertolucci is also operating on subtext here: in a way, Brando's nonengaging engagement is a metaphor for a certain attitude toward directing movies. Jean-Pierre Léaud costars, but the film is more than anything a vehicle for a great performance by Brando.

:D :D :D :D :D
 
Not so much as inspirational!! but the music that matched the excitement surely the clip that won the award the other week as the most scary bit of celluloid ever seen ALFRED HITCHCOCKS PHSYCHO!!!!(1960) and the shower scene in the Motel :o :P B)
 
An Capall, I sincerely hope that you, of all people, are having a joke! Surely you didn't waste some 90 minutes of pure Irish breath sitting through such jingoistic post-Cromwellian propaganda, which served only to extol Ireland's brute oppressor? Shame, shame on you.
 
Walker - "an experience not to be shared, but indulged on either end"? Indeed. The very essence of many of its' scenes, if I recall...
 
Would have to be Ennio Morricone for me (not to be confused with Whigfield - a very good group) although choosing which film would be very difficult.
 
Difficult to think of any films in which the music made a lasting impression.

Probably 2001 was the most obvious.
 
This is not "which is the best film score", but rather the best inspirational piece of film music.

If any particular piece of music has to be nominated it needs to be done for a specific reason.
 
You're right there, Hutchy - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" is fantastic; it's also been used in a couple of other films & Dr Greene's final epsiode in ER.
 
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