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Old 11-20-05, 01:47 AM
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Directors who scrore their own work...

I just finished watching the second Halloween....besides Carpenter, are there any other directors that score their own films?
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Robert Rodriguez
Clint Eastwood

The only two that come immediately to mind for me.
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John Ottman is a composer (The Usual Suspects) who scored his own directoral debut (Urban Legends: Final Cut).
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Woody Allen also scored one of his own films a long time ago (Sleeper).
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Rob Zombie scored and directed House of 1000 Corpses.
Anthony Hopkins scored and directed August.
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Mike Figgis, I think.
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Originally Posted by Legolas
John Ottman is a composer (The Usual Suspects) who scored his own directoral debut (Urban Legends: Final Cut).
What a classic!

But anyhow, I have a lot of respect for a director who scores his own work. Shows a pretty wide range of talent.
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Originally Posted by Ovid
Darren Aronofsky
Which movie of his did he score?
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Which movie of his did he score?
I'm pretty sure Clint Mansell did the music for both of his films.
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Originally Posted by jaeufraser
I'm pretty sure Clint Mansell did the music for both of his films.
That's what I thought too.
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Hal Hartley, lately.
Old 11-20-05, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Kant
How can you forget John Carpenter?! Halloween and Assault on precint 13! Classic.
Did you not bother to read the first post of the thread?
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Originally Posted by FinkPish
Did you not bother to read the first post of the thread?
Ha! He attempted to delete it, but it's forever enshrined in the quote of another.

Oh, and Groucho...you were beat to Charlie.

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Originally Posted by natevines
What a classic!

But anyhow, I have a lot of respect for a director who scores his own work. Shows a pretty wide range of talent.
And also, save money on production as well, without essentially employing another composer to score the film.
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Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
Oh, and Groucho...you were beat to Charlie.
Imagine how heartbroken I was to find out that Groucho has me on ignore.
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Alejandro Amenabar did the score for The Others. Eastwood came to mind first though.
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Mike Figgis is first who came to mind. Also Prince (Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge)
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It doesn't really qualify as scoring, I suppose, but Mel Brooks has written songs for many of the movies he has directed.
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Originally Posted by Rockmjd23
Also Prince (Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge)
Your forgot the best one: Purple Rain. I wouldn't considered these as movie scores, but as various individual songs being played at random in a movie.

A traditional film score are original orchestrated compositions, of instrumental cues that are inserted, played in the background, which enhances, and corresponded with the activity, or the character's mood being portrayed during a particular scene.

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