The Thin Red Line Hans Zimmer

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  • Release Date: 01/12/1999
  • Sales Rank: 22,714
  • Label: RCA VICTOR
  • UPC: 090266338221

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The Thin Red Line

1LISTENThe Coral Atoll 8:00
2LISTENThe Lagoon 8:36
3LISTENJourney To The Line 9:21
4LISTENLight 7:19
5LISTENBeam 3:44
6LISTENAir 2:21
7LISTENStone In My Heart 4:28
8LISTENThe Village 5:52
9LISTENSilence 5:06
10LISTENGod Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi 1:58
11LISTENSit Back and Relax / Francesco Lupica 2:06

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Editorial Reviews

Hans Zimmer's Oscar-nominated score for reclusive director Terrence Malick's ambitious James Jones adaptation -- only the director's third film in 25 years -- is one of his most subtle and sophisticated yet. Then again, it's not as if the German-born composer has ever been known as a master of bombast or overstatement -- Max Steiner he is not (among other works, he penned the award-winning soundtracks for Rain Man and The Lion King). Unlike the scores for most other war movies (The Thin Red Line is set during World War II), the action in Malick's elegiac epic is driven mostly by the action itself (heated exchanges between characters, sudden eruptions of devastating violence) and not the music. The soundtrack, which consists primarily of long, string-laden pieces, also includes one of the film's mesmerizing chants, which were so popular that a separate recording, Chants From The Thin Red Line, consisting entirely of chants by the Melanesian Brotherhood and the Choir of All Saints, was released in conjunction with this recording. ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy, All Music Guide All Music Guide

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Thin Red Lineby Anonymous

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November 02, 2004: If you listen to this music - composed by Hans Zimmer - you notice that it's nothing like the usual war-movie sounds (a lot of brass, pounding drums, etc.).Instead it's music that makes you dream away and it takes you to beautiful and peaceful places where you have never been before. The music is quiet with a simple but beautiful melody, sensitive and sometimes a little sad but never sentimental. This sadness and the fact that on two or three occasions you hear eerie voices and sounds, reminds you that there is a war going on. It's a soundtrack you can listen to without having seen the movie.

Thin Red Lineby Anonymous

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July 01, 2002: ''The Thin Red Line'' is by far the most eerie soundtracks I have ever listened to in my life. The soundtrack opens with ''The Coral Atoll'' and the music clearly dictates the uselessness and sudden violence the soldiers must have felt in jungle combat. Like the other reviewers, I agree about ''Journey to the Line''. It opens with a the quiet ticking of a watch, letting us know about the slow passage of time. The track then fades in a orchestra with one of the best matched themes ever in a motion picture. When you listen, you can almost hear the cries of dying men and the screams of those slowly going insane. The track dies and we hear the single, slow melody of violins that invokes the feeling of the aftermath of combat. The heavenly sounds resonate inside our heads like a ghost. ''Silence'' is probally the most thought provoking track on the disc, perfectly suited for the scene in the movie. The Japanese were starving and disease ridden, yet they still held off our troops by pure will. The albulm then drops us into the strange track of ''God U Tekem Blong''. The track gives us the impression that these men's lives are NOT over, but just beginning. ''The Thin Red Line'' closes with the creepy ''Sit Back and Relax''. Echoes and chaos are intertwined to show us what the soldiers left behind in Guadalcanal: bloodshed and death. This albulm is a brilliant collection of the finest themes anyone could ask for in such a fantastic war movie.


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