The Quiet American [Soundtrack] [Import] [PR]
Craig Armstrong （Varese Sarabande）CD
発売日：2003年3月4日(火)
≪関連『映画・ドラマ』タイトル≫
- クレイグ・アームストロング
- 『愛の落日』 (2002)
曲目リスト ※試聴はAmazonでどうぞ。
- The Quiet American
- Saigon 1952
- Pyle's Best Friend/Asking for A Divorce
- Drive Up Holy Mountain/The General
- Brothers In Arms
- Escape from Watchtower/Dreams of Phuong
- Death In the Square
- Fowler's Temptation
- The Quiet American (Piano Solo)
- The Ritual of Revenge
- Do You Still Miss Him?
- End Titles (Nothing In This World)
レビュー (Amazon)
In adapting Graham Greene's tale of a love-triangle set against the political intrigues of '50s Vietnam, director Philip Noyce didn't shy away from the novelist's unsettling, still-timely subtext: That America has historically fomented acts of terror to justify intervention. Composer Craig Armstrong responds to that challenging dramatic landscape with a musical score of carefully measured tension and brooding elegance. The composer's main theme sets the tone, infusing longing string passages with nervous, synthetic percussion and the vocals of Hong Nhung to produce music that subtly transcends boundaries of geography and genre. The solo piano version of his main theme recalls Thomas Newman's evocative work, with its spare, bittersweet melody hanging hauntingly in the air. Armstrong's compelling cues may be rooted in orchestral scoring traditions, but they are injected with bracing doses of contemporary production and arranging touches that give the story a crucial sense of timeless parable. --Jerry McCulley
