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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America Discussion Thread

by Silas Lesnick
Mar 1st, 2011
Alan Silvestri will provide the score to this summer's Captain America: The First Avenger, according to a story at Film Music Reporter.

Silvestri is best known for his work with director Robert Zemeckis, providing the scores for a dozen of his feature films, including all three Back to the Future films and (winning him a best Original Score Academy Award) Forrest Gump. His most recent work was for 2010's The A-Team.

The film, hitting on July 22nd, will see Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, a military officer who volunteers for an experimental procedure that transforms him into the patriotic hero, Captain America.
 
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Ooooohhh.....the movie is 10x better then what it's going to be now!
 
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Makes sense. The most vanilla, ballless Hollywood director matched with a composer who has been phoning in his scores since the 90's.
 
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So let me get this straight I could play the soundtrack from Forrest Gump and follow the Captain America movie? Realistically that's about what we are getting....

(Huh...That is funny, I have to go tweet that)
 
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Shut your food holes. Silvestri is amazing. He has his own style, and one of the few composers who actually does a HEROIC theme. :lol

Nothing jazzes me more in a movie then a big huge action scene and the theme of the character belts out.

The Mummy Returns is my favorite score of all time. And Silvestri is my favorite composer. I love his stuff. :D
 
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James Horner is far worse than Silvestri.
 
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If its the same guy that did the score to FG I liked that score. As long as its not the same then it should sound nice to the ear.
 
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He hasnt done a score like Forest Gump since Forest Gump.

Yes, his scores have a similer sound, but they arent the same. Van Helsing isnt the same as The Mummy Returns, and neither are anything like Beowulf.

He's like John Williams in the sense that you can tell HE did the score, but the themes arent the same. I dont care what anyone says. I can hum pretty much every BIG Silvestri theme, so....

Back To the Future
Quick and The Dead
Predator
The Mummy Returns
Van Helsing
Beowulf
Lilo and Stitch
GI-Joe
and The A-Team (his theme, not the A-Team theme.)

I think he's great....:lol
 
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Van Helsing sounds exactly like The Mummy Returns--you really couldn't have picked two scores that sound more alike
 
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Van Helsing sounds exactly like The Mummy Returns--you really couldn't have picked two scores that sound more alike

No, I think there's a difference between the two. They are recogniseable as being made by the same composer, but they are not the same.

And while The Mummy Returns isn't my favorite score, I do have to agree that it is very awesome and heroic. Especially the part where the bus rides on Tower Bridge after they just fought the mummies! :rock :rock :rock :rock
 
Well, to be fair Carl we know you hate the movie but some of us actually enjoy them quite a bit.

That has nothing to do with it. I like good scores from bad movies, too. I'm just genuinely baffled that out of all of the amazing and genius scores throughout the history of film his favorite is "The Mummy Returns"? How odd.
 
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I am.

That and the simple fact it was THAT score that got me into film soundtracks. So it's part the fact it's awesome, and it's part the fact that it was my gateway.

Everytime I heard that tune in the theater, I got excited. It got me pumped. Few scores have done that for me.
 
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Description of possible trailer over at superherohype.com.

[
QUOTE]Scooper 'RealIrOnMaN' got a chance to watch a trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger at the Russian Movie Expo and has reported back with a description. The first trailer (which may or may not be like the description) will hit theaters later this month, but not with Rango this weekend as some sites are reporting. If you'd like to know what was featured in the clip, read on...

Opening scene. Recruitment.

Calling: "ROGERS. STEVEN."

Doctors are looking at Pre Super-Soldier Serum Steve.

Steve: "Just give me a chance!"
Doctor: "Sorry, son! *Takes a paper. Stamps REJECTED!*"
Doctor (or not): "Just saving your life."

Paramount. Marvel Studios. Cut to Camp Lehigh.

Col. Chester Phillips (Peggy Carter by his side) says to standing soldiers & Steve: "General Patton has said, that wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."

Steve (Pre Super-Soldier Serum) gets beaten by someone on the streets. Takes a part of garbage can as his shield.

The guy, that beat Steve: "You just don't know when to give up, do you?"

Steve (looking all angry at this guy): "I can do this all day!"

Sadly, Steve takes another beating from the guy.

Chester Phillips (looking at soldiers & Steve): "Our goal is to create the greatest army in history!"

Cut to Bucky (in army uniform) & Steve (in normal clothes):

Bucky: "I should be going with you."
Steve: "I know you think I can't do this!"
Bucky: "This isn't about (something), Steve, this is war!"

Chester Phillips: "Every army begins with one man!"

Cut to Abraham Erskine & Steve:

Abraham to Steve: "Five tries in five different cities."

* Soldiers walking by in camp

Abraham to Steve: "I can offer you a chance!"

Cut to Steve in Camp, receiving some special envelope. Abraham Erskine in coat & hat standing by Chester Phillips next to Steve & other soldiers.

Chester Phillips: "He (Steve) will be the first in a new breed of Super-Soldiers!"

Cosmic Cube? Some explosions. Peggy Carter & Steve together.

Steve: "Why me?" (chamber, full of scientists, generals. Steve gets inside the vita-rays capsule)

Abraham: "Because alignment, because of value, of strength, because of value of power."

Steve gets injected by something, saying: "That wasn't so bad."

Someone replies to Steve: "That was penicillin."

First look at Howard Stark, looking real smart & classy.

Chester Phillips: "We are going to win this war because we have the best man!"

Abraham to Howard: "Now, mr. Stark!"

Chester Phillips: "They will personally deliver (or something, I don't remember) Hitler to the gates of hell!"

* Really good & long view of Steve's painful transformation into Super-Soldier. Lights out! *Some army music plays* Everyone is shocked to see the brand new Steve Rogers. Howard Stark & Abraham Erskine are amazed.

Peggy Carter: "How do you feel?"

* Cut to streets of New York (the ones, we've seen on set pictures - looking realistic), people walking by.

Steve: "Taller"

* Cut to some icy lands.

Someone says to Steve: "Your task won't be simple!"

* Cut to Heinz Kruger's submarine, Steve is breaking it, asks Heinz: "Who the hell are you?"

Heinz Kruger: "The first of many!"

* Cut to some gunshots & Peggy, car explosion (the one we've seen on set video).

Someone says to Steve: "Your enemy is not, what you expect!"

* Cut to the big army of HYDRA & Johann Schmidt (not the Red Skull yet).

Steve & the Howling Commandos are inside some factory, with Schmidt's goons around. Johann takes his human mask off & we get to see first full & clear shot of Red Skull's face, that now looks even more violently red, than it was in the tv-spot.

Cut to Howling Commandos wrecking ___ & kicking butt, big explosions (some of them we've seen in the tv-spot), flying spaceship (here it looks incomplete, more CGI-ish), HYDRA firemen making a fire circle around Cap & HYDRA men in the forrest near some car.

Steve (in his army uniform): "Don't know if I can do this!"

Cap & HYDRA on motorcycles, chasing him through the forest. Another explosion! Cap jumps on one of the HYDRA soldiers' car!

Abraham's voice (to Steve): "That's why you were chosen!"

Cap, possibly in HYDRA headquarters, fighting the Red Skull (not sure about this one, but looked like it).

Arnim Zola's lab, more explosions.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER.

Steve (to Peggy, holding his unpainted silver shield - tv-spot moment): "What do you think?"
Peggy: "I think it works!"


Notes:
* There are some unfinished CGI elements in this trailer (for example, the hovering space airship).

* This footage may or may not be the first trailer

* USO suit wasn't shown! But the helmeted/ripped USO suit was shown!

* I don't know when it premieres, but it looks like soon enough.[/QUOTE]
 
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I am.

That and the simple fact it was THAT score that got me into film soundtracks. So it's part the fact it's awesome, and it's part the fact that it was my gateway.

Everytime I heard that tune in the theater, I got excited. It got me pumped. Few scores have done that for me.

It's time to file that one in the back of your appreciation cabinet and move on.
 
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