Milius, who wrote... Apocalypse Now and... directed Conan the Barbarian... is there when Pauline Kael arrives. Kael is the liberal New Yorker film critic. To her, a Milius film is only slightly better than a slime mold.His greatest stroke in Conan was in getting Basil Poledouris to do the score. It wouldn't be a tenth the movie it is if it had the ordinary score of a Sword & Sorcery film.
Milius has had some wine. He has an intermediary tell Kael that he would like a “conference” with her. A message comes back: Kael wants to know if Milius, who in meetings with executives was fond of displaying pistols, is armed.
“Tell her I’m not armed,” Milius says. “But I myself am a weapon.”
A Man After My Own Heart
But, of course he is.
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Yeah, that score does make the movie.
It's excellent music. Really a well put-together movie.
Poledouris is one of the under-rated film composers. I suspect, if he hadn't become prominent just as John Williams hit the scene, we'd have a lot more scores by him.
And yes, Conan is one of the best blends of film and score around.
LittleRed1
A lethal weapon that hasn't been licensed or registered?
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