O muzyce z filmu z francuskiej strony Hornera (tłumaczone google tłumaczem)
Seventeen months ... It's time that we had to wait for The Karate Kid to play a new score by James Horner. Waiting a long journey through the desert. However, early in the film, our patience is rewarded with a captivating moment: the generic names scroll on a black background, and this for more than two minutes, leaving only the music speak. Through the development of it, James Horner we gradually permeates the universe of the film as if we opened a window on it. All played in the contrast between the warmth of the voice of Fahad Al Kubaisi, similar to that deployed by Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in The Four Feathers, and the crystal clear sound, fragile piano. The first image has not yet arrived but the emotions are already appearing. The twenty first five minutes of the film will confirm the first positive feelings: music everywhere put forward with the director to present his characters and his story. The absence of silence or pause is significant as it demonstrates its confidence in the composer.
Then, as The Karate Kid which featured each of the first pieces in a wide variety orchestrations, James Horner also gives us here over the 100 minutes that seem to have been composed for the film, a whole range of colors: gravity ( through a long and beautiful horn solo), when both son and Auda Saleeh are separated from their father, the sweetness when they grow in the gardens of the city of Hobeika, the beauty of wide open spaces where a plane flies over the last , to represent the irony of spending disinterested Nesib (Antonio Banderas) which is enriched by betraying the pact with his rival Amar (Mark Strong), father of two boys ...
So the first thing to remember: James Horner, in great shape, door beautifully all the emotions that pass through each scene of the film, even if the musical moments are found again and stuck to the same in several places: the violins heard in the trailer (at 1'26), are thus taken nearly four times to illustrate a tragic moment, just as agitated strings (1'03) followed by snarling trombones (1'14) involved from a threat arises.
The other important point to remember is that Black Gold is perhaps the James Horner score that relies most on the repeated use of the same theme throughout the film. This theme, haunting notes malheriennes recovery (present in CSI, Balto, Apollo 13 and Titanic), and already fully bloomed in the chaos of Stalingrad continues its migration within the work hornerienne. Same meaning according to the film suggests, as we suggested in our analysis "between sensitivity and intelligence," the suffering of body and of being, the breaking point between hope and despair. Such moments are frequently found here, especially when the characters lost in the desert dying of thirst, one after the other. However, Black Gold delves deeper into this migration theme, since through its many variations James Horner appropriates more widely this theme incorporates his language with him and develops new colors: the love between a prince Princess and the joy we have experienced following the discovery of a water source, an epic ride ... So, the movie, almost addictive melody that we have in mind and reminds us of the full range of emotions during the session.
Two other themes, secondary, be noted: when the child and the loss of a loved one are mentioned, the notes played by a piano or a violin soloist, citing Casper's Lullaby, accompanying the singer's plaintive voice of Qatar, establishing and an intimate and melancholic music the most beautiful effect. Then a pattern inherited from Troy (to hear you have to listen, for example The Wooden Horse Of Troy And The Saking from 8'56 to 9'16) resonates on several occasions when the issue is focused on the conquest of power.
"Everything that has value that can not be won by love or by blood. "Said the film's main character. Fell in love photos shot by his friend Jean-Jacques Annaud during the long weeks that he spent in the Tunisian desert dunes, James Horner sign with a new Black Gold majestic music and great value, in symbiosis with the messages and ideas of the film.
"The 4-note theme is a very discreet appearance (such as at the end of Harry's Resignation in The Four Feathers) at the announcement of the death of a character in the second scene of the film"
