- We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
- One Of The Living
- We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
- Bartertown
- The Children
- Coming Home
発売日:2003年11月11日(火)
レーベル:Varese Sarabande
レビュー (Amazon)Australian director George Miller's
Mad Max was a modestly budgeted, post-apocalypse sci-fi exploitation masterpiece that turned both he and star Mel Gibson into hot Hollywood commodities. The
Road Warrior delivered on that promise in spades, its success insuring that the Max films would become a full trilogy. The bloated Hollywood effects and set budgets may have overwhelmed
Thunderdome's visual potential (has the post-apocalypse ever looked so
busy?), but the addition of veteran composer Maurice Jarre now seems one of the production's shrewdest moves. Anchored by a pair of Tina Turner pop songs (the bittersweet hit "We Don't Need Another Hero" and the 80's tech-inflected "One of the Living") and a disposable instrumental version of "Hero," Jarre follows with cues unusually sequenced into three sweeping orchestral suites. "Bartertown"'s primitive, metallic rhythmic flourishes, seasoned by jazzy sax and dark strings, give the film its sense of time and place, while the bright, semi-exotic pastoralism of "The Children" and "Coming Home"'s more traditional heroics give the film its distinctive,
Lawrence of Arabia-Lite dramatic sweep. --
Jerry McCulley