Minority Report

Label: Dreamworks
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 600445038523
EAN: 0600445038523
ASIN: B000068C9F

Release Date: 2002-06-18

Minority Report

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Tracks:

Minority Report
"Can You See?"
Pre-Crime To The Rescue
Sean And Lara
Spyders
The Greenhouse Effect
Eye-Dentiscan
Everybody Runs!
Sean's Theme
Anderton's Great Escape
Dr. Eddie And Miss Van Eych
Visions Of Anne Lively
Leo Crow.The Confrontation
"Sean" By Agatha
Psychic Truth And Finale
A New Beginning

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While Steven Spielberg's sci-fi detective thriller revolves around the intriguing premise of future cops arresting criminals before their crimes, beneath its high-tech veneer it asks a simple but infinitely powerful question: Do we have the power to alter our own destiny? Coming on the heels of the director's posthumous collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, it also affords longtime Spielberg musical collaborator John Williams a rare back-to-back opportunity to construct a musical future-world. The composer's efforts here are largely a forceful departure from A.I.'s sparkling minimalist influences, employing an enduring cinematic cliché--that film futures often sound much like the works of early-20th-century serialist/modernist classical composers--that puts a compelling new spin on the ever slippery concept of postmodernism. If the cues here occasionally recall the jagged edges, dark corners, and rhythmic fury of some of Goldsmith's best sci-fi scores, it's only a tribute to both legends' deep musical roots and preternatural scoring instincts. But make no mistake, this is pure Williams at his most compelling, employing his full arsenal of technique and always masterful use of color to construct a new genre--call it "future noir"--from inspirations as diverse as Bartók, Ligeti, Penderecki, Webern, and Schoenberg. Like Herrmann's suspenseful scores for Hitchcock (one of the film's intentional musical touchstones), there may be nary a memorable melody in it, but it's a riveting--and occasionally harrowing--listen from opening bars to its final, minimalist-tinged string flourishes. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

A Brilliant and Complex Piece of Music.......2005-07-09

This is an amazing addition to any John Williams fan's collection. It has many exciting tracks, like three quarters of the disc is comprised of action and suspense. The remaining few are beautiful. Track 9 "Sean's Theme" is the most heartbreakingly beautiful peice I have heard in ages.

A must buy.

Misses a main point.......2005-04-26

Seems to me that the centrally important music in this movie was not written by John Williams: it was Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, the first movement of which was played (in part) twice by my count. No accident that it was the "Unfinished." That was the movie's essence: unfinished crimes. Only if Schubert--or any other composer--had written an "Uncommitted" symphony could it have been more appropriate.

Problems with the actual recording..........2004-06-26

I liked the music from Minority Report, but rather than talk about the soundtrack itself (because I figure you've seen the film otherwise you wouldnt be here, and you've got many other reviews here talking about the music) I'd like to mention the recording quality of the CD which is EXTREMELY POOR!

I have an expensive stereo system and for a modern recording I was severly dissapointed in the quality of the mastering. It hisses, it pops, I thought I was listening to vinyl!!!! Maybe you can't here it on low volumes, or if other stereo systems have more bass which hide it? Personally, I like listening to my music LOUD and this recording SUCKS!

Everybody runs . . ........2003-10-18

. . . to get this brilliantly dark soundtrack for one of Spielberg's most intriguing works in recent years. I just loved the cue "Everybody runs" . . . even when I heard it for the first time in the movie, accompanying the tense scene where John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is trapped in the futuristic vehicle tearing along the highway -- the music is just SOOOO good (no noticeable melody here, but just so fitting and -- I guess the right word here is -- BREATHTAKING), I had to buy the CD for that one cue only. When Anderton kicks away the window glass and climbs out of the car to perform this genuinely stunning acrobatic act, you can actually sense the trumpets in Williams's break-neck score simulating the wind and blasting into Anderton's face. (The score deserves five stars for that one single moment only!!!) Now that I've had the CD for a few days (and listened to track 8 like fifty times), I also find other cues memorable, especially "Minority Report," "Spyders" (no Herrmann this, just much more effective), "Eye-Dentiscan" (harrowingly good), and the heart-warming "Sean's Theme." I recommend this soundtrack to anyone who loves Steven Spielberg, John Williams, or just one knockout of a movie score that'll take you away into a bleak, futuristic, cold world. Spielberg notes that John Williams is the greatest musical storyteller the world of the movies has ever known; I couldn't agree more.

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