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Four Feathers, The (2002)
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  Not a bad Score
The film left much to be, well let's say... James Horner did the best with what dramatic film he had to work with. In all honesty Horner should not have taken this one on. His music is far beyond what the images of this film had expected to be. It's a shame.
Outstanding score.
I just want to say that I absolutely enjoyed this score. It is James Horner's best in quite awhile. HE has redeemed himself after a few very disappointing scores such as Enemy at the Gates, Windtalkers, etc. Hey the vocals aren't that bad as some people have said. The vocals do an effective job in establishing the setting and work well with and not against Horner's music. Tracks labeled Sniper!, Escape, & the Mahdi are good examples. While listening to the first half of The Mahdi, I couldn't help but picture the Starship Enterprise and the music James wrote for Star Trek II. But I think the musical reference werent out of context with the film Four Feathers. I would recommend this score to openminded music listeners. Give it a chance.
Four feathers for "The Four Feathers"
When you have a war movie and the composer for the film is James Horner, you know that the music will be good. And it is. The Four Feathers is Horner's latest war film to score, with previous ones being Braveheart, Enemy At the Gates, and Windtalkers to name a few. This score basically contains 3 parts to it. The first is a military like feel that represents the war aspect of the film. The second is a grand and sweeping love theme and the third is a heroic and adventurous theme that actually is the same theme as the love theme, just played differently. The ethnic instrumentation used is ethnic percussion, ethnic woodwinds, and a sarangi (what is that?). A different and nice touch to this score is the vocals of Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. (Say that 10 times fast!) His vocals remind me of Hans Zimmer's score to Black Hawk Down, as vocals similar to this were used in that score. "The Makings of a Fine Soldier" open the score with the heroic theme played on strings, trumpets, and snare drums. "The Dance" contains the love theme played on piano with woodwinds playing along side. "Harry's Resignation" builds and builds with trumpets and snare drums and "Sniper!" is an all out ethnic percussion and solo vocal cue that is a wild one. The album's middle tracks mainly consist of ethnic instrumentation and solo vocals until "Escape" brings back the action music and the solo vocal chants. The best track of them all is the last one "A Coward No Longer". Here Horner unleashes the heroic main theme in full force with plenty of strings and brass. The length of this album is 79 minutes which is more than enough and is the basic length that most Horner scores are at. I recommend this one to anyone who likes James Horner and the score to Black Hawk Down.
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