The SHH's Best/ Most Iconic Movie Theme of All Time Tournament: NOMINATIONS

[Quasimod0]

Incredibles main theme
Indiana jones theme
Pirates of the Caribbean theme
Star Wars main theme
Star Wars throne room end titles theme
Up main theme
Tron legacy- the grid
Tron legacy- end titles, main theme

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Are we allowed to pull a song from any score and use it? Or do they all have to main themes?

For example...could I use this from Superman Returns(You're Not One Of Them) and not the main John Williams theme?

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[Dark Raven]

Are we allowed to pull a song from any score and use it? Or do they all have to main themes?

For example...could I use this from Superman Returns(You're Not One Of Them) and not the main John Williams theme?

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Hmm. The thing is that it will start becoming a tournament about movie scores rather than themes, and if I wanted to run a movie scores tournament in the future, people will have used them all up.

I'd have to judge it on a case by case basis, and in this case that theme isn't all that well known. In the case of the Imperial March from Star Wars or the Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, those themes are extremely well known from those movies, and often known outside of those movies even if people haven't watched the films. So where an alternative theme becomes almost as well known as the main theme, I'd say yes.

In this case, I think I'd have to say no.

On another note, I think I have to disallow one of my own suggestions: "Bridge on the River Kwai March", because the well-known theme is actually the "Colonel Bogey" military march which predates the film, even though it is almost synonymous now with the movie.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Ok. No problem. I hope you will do a movie score in the near future.

 

[Bim]

Ok, here's mine:

Star Wars, Main Theme – John Williams
The Imperial March – Empire Strikes Back, John Williams
Raiders March – Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams
Flying Theme – E.T, John Williams
Jaws Theme – Jaws, John Williams
Jurassic Park theme – Jurassic Park, John Williams
Duels of the Fates – The Phantom Menace, John Williams
Gone with the Wind, Main Title – Gone with the Wind, Max Steiner
The Godfather Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) – The Godfather, Nino Rota
Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland
Schindler's List Theme - John Williams
Gonna Fly Now – Rocky, Bill Conti
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
The Murder – Psycho, Bernard Herrmann
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Main Theme - Ennio Morricone
Colonel Bogey March - Bridge on the River Kwai, Malcolm Arnold

 

[Dark Raven]

Ok, here's mine:

Star Wars, Main Theme – John Williams
The Imperial March – Empire Strikes Back, John Williams
Raiders March – Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams
Flying Theme – E.T, John Williams
Jaws Theme – Jaws, John Williams
Jurassic Park theme – Jurassic Park, John Williams
Duels of the Fates – The Phantom Menace, John Williams
Gone with the Wind, Main Title – Gone with the Wind, Max Steiner
The Godfather Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) – The Godfather, Nino Rota
Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland
Schindler's List Theme - John Williams
Gonna Fly Now – Rocky, Bill Conti
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
The Murder – Psycho, Bernard Herrmann
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Main Theme - Ennio Morricone
Colonel Bogey March - Bridge on the River Kwai, Malcolm Arnold

Not sure I can include that one. I just disqualified it from my own list (I had included it too) because I discovered that the Colonel Bogey March is actually a military march written by Lt FJ Ricketts in 1914 which predates the Bridge on the River Kwai (which was in 1957) so isn't original to the film. It was just a popular march used in the movie. Malcolm Arnold only wrote the counter march which plays underneath, but the main famous melody is by Ricketts.

You can hear Rickett's composition here and it is definitely the main melody:

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Not really sure what Arnold's contribution is.

 

[Bim]

Aah darn, ok. I didnt know that. Here's my updated list then:

Star Wars, Main Theme – John Williams
The Imperial March – Empire Strikes Back, John Williams
Raiders March – Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams
Flying Theme – E.T, John Williams
Jaws Theme – Jaws, John Williams
Jurassic Park theme – Jurassic Park, John Williams
Duels of the Fates – The Phantom Menace, John Williams
Gone with the Wind, Main Title – Gone with the Wind, Max Steiner
The Godfather Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) – The Godfather, Nino Rota
Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland
Schindler's List Theme - John Williams
Gonna Fly Now – Rocky, Bill Conti
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
The Murder – Psycho, Bernard Herrmann
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Main Theme - Ennio Morricone
Tubular Bells (The Exorcist theme) - The Exorcist, Mike Oldfield

As iconic as it is, I purposely left out Williams' Superman theme btw, because it won the other tourney. I wanted to give other themes a chance to shine

 

[Human Torch]

Star Wars Main Theme
Raiders March (Indiana Jones theme)
Godfather theme
Duel of the Fates (TPM)
Imperial March (TESB)
Star Trek TMP theme (AKA the ST:TNG theme)
Star trek 2 TWoK theme
Star Trek 4 TVH theme
Rocky "Gonna fly now"
Rambo First Blood pt 2 theme
That's all I can come up with at the moment.

 

[Human Torch]

Adding the Flash Gordon Theme by Queen.(AKA "Flash!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!t

 

[Nilso]

Please add this

Sunshine - Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor) - John Murphy

 

[Quasimod0]

So is this dead?

 

[DirtyHarry]

I was looking forward to this

 

[Quasimod0]

Same here. Somebody wanna take over?

 

[Lord]

Doesn't seem like anybody has poster it, but i nominate the 2002's Spider-Man Theme.

 

[The Caped Knight]

1. The Avengers
2. Captain America: The First Avenger
3. Spider-Man
4. Star Wars : Imperial March/Darth Vader Theme
5. Star Wars: The Force Them/ Skywalker
6. The Dark Knight Trilogy - Batman Begins theme
7. Indiana Jones - Raiders March
8. James Bond theme
9. Jaws
10. Bourne Trilogy - Jason Bourne theme
11. Superman - John williams
12. Batman - Danny Elfman
13. Mission Impossible
14. Star Trek
15. Zorro
16. Back to The Future
17. Rocky
18. Men in Black
19. Iron Man
20. Thor
21. Jurassic Park

 

[Dark Raven]

You realise this was for a tournament that took place 2 years ago which is long since over?