The Legend of Zorro


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Film | Releasejaar: 2005 | Medium: CD, Download
 

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# Track   Lengte
1.Collecting The Ballots3:25
2.Stolen Votes6:31
3.To The Governor's...And Then Elena4:05
4."This Is Who I Am"3:05
5.Classroom Justice1:50
6.The Cortez Ranch6:35
7.A Proposal With Pearls / Perilous Times3:58
8.Joaquin's Capture and Zorro's Rescue5:00
9.Jailbreak / Reunited5:36
10.A Dinner Of Pigeon / Setting The Explosives5:04
11.Mad Dash / Zorro Unmasked3:20
12.Just One Drop Of Nitro2:40
13.The Train11:11
14.Statehood Proclaimed5:00
15."My Family Is My Life."8:14
 75:34
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The Legend of Zorro - 08/10 - Recensie van Andreas Lindahl, ingevoerd op (Engels)
It's been seven years since the first Zorro film, starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins, was released, featuring one of composer James Horner's most entertaining and swash-buckling scores. It's also been 14 years since Horner scored a sequel (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West back in 1991). Sequel scores are both good and bad. On the one hand, it allows the composer to further expand on themes and musical ideas established in the original score. On the other hand, it often means we'll end up with lots of the same stuff once again, with the composer retreading old, familiar, ground. Horner's score for The Legend of Zorro has a little of both.

Horner's effective use of stomping feet and clapping hands as percussive instruments in his original score really gave the music a fresh, and rather unusual, sound. Horner doesn't abandone this technique in The Legend of Zorro - why change a winning formula? The score is packed with this foot-tap inducing effect and creates, together with plenty of castanets, a fitting backdrop to the orchestral music. Horner also adds some flamenco guitars to the mix, which seems fitting for a film about Zorro, as does the generous use of trumpets and brass in general. Woodwinds are, more or less, saved for the more quiet underscore - the brass plays the role of the hero in this score, with plenty of trumpet and horn cascades and fanfares to go around. The scores' large action piece, the eleven minute long "The Train", is an impressive demonstration of Horner's ability to write exciting, playful action and adventure music. Horner rarely gets to write action music this fun, so it's nice to hear a score where Horner finally is allowed to pull all stops. Kazu Matsui's shakuhachi and Tony Hinnigan's rythmic ethnic flute playing is also an effective and familiar tool, which Horner incorporates into many action and suspense cues, throughout the score.

When it comes to themes, listeners familiar with Horner's score for The Mask of Zorro will feel right at home. The uplifting main theme is given plenty of room, cropping up all over the score, and the beautiful love theme also appears frequently. Its appearance in "To the Governor's... and then Elena" is especially lovely and memorable. The bold theme for Tornado, Zorro's horse, is also given a lot of room. Compared to the first score, Horner plays around with tempo and rythm a lot and the result are themes that sound familiar, but which sometimes manages to take the listener by surprise.

All in all, The Legend of Zorro is a fun score, with lots of action and romance. It's a little disappointing that Horner didn't choose to compose any new themes for the score, but the themes we get are quite excellent, so it's really not that big a problem. The recording, by Simon Rhodes, is crisp, the orchestra does a great job and with a total playing time of over 75 minutes this score manages to impress and entertain.
The Legend of Zorro - 08/10 - Recensie van Tom Daish, ingevoerd op (Engels)
It seems that the greater the gap between original and sequel, the worse the sequel. The Mask of Zorro did very good business at the box office, helping make Catherine Zeta Douglas Cardiff Stadium Jones a star and raising the profile of Antonio Banderas to the A list. However, as a gap, seven years seems a touch long and so it's not a huge surprise that interest had waned somewhat in the interim and it flopped rather badly. One of the dubious pleasures of long haul travel is being able to watch all those films you would rather not have to pay money to see. The Legend of Zorro is of intermittent pleasure, but the lack of chemistry between the leads is distinctly lacking (largely, it must be said, due to plot machinations that drive them apart) and, as I've noted elsewhere, I can't say I have any great desire to watch yet another sword fight on the big screen.
In terms of quality, 2005 has been an above average year for Horner and Legend of Zorro continues this trend. Admittedly, what goes for the original applies here as much is similar, the main Zorro and love themes are reprised and the new melodic material isn't especially notable, or used with much frequency. Legend is more a matter of refinement and refashioning of the original material. Indeed, it's to Horner's credit that he comes up with some new and improved ways to present the same ideas, either with added counterpoint or refashioned orchestrations. The action cues seem a little tighter this time around, notably the witty Cortez Ranch and the lengthy showdown on The Train. It's an enjoyable pleasure to hear Horner writing action that doesn't just bang away, marking time, but provides some tuneful and meaningful commentary on the story and characters.

Depending on your predilection for such things, many listeners will be pleased to note that the original's (quite good) spinoff song is not reprised here, nor is there a replacement. The danger of ratings is that they can seem more or less ambitious over time and my top star ranking of the original is probably a little on the generous side in retrospect. There is some scope for noting that the sequel is, in some ways, superior to its predecessor, the refinements all working toward a more constantly engaging and thoroughly enjoyable album. Of course, the basic material was all there to be rearranged so it's hard to give full credit for what is a very similar score, but that takes little away from its entertainment value. If you enjoyed the first, this is more of the same, but arguably presented even better.
The Legend of Zorro - 09/10 - Recensie van Arvid Fossen, ingevoerd op (Nederlands)
De nieuwste verfilming The Legend of Zorro brengt zeven jaar later opnieuw Antonio Banderas als Zorro naar voren, met Elena nu als zijn vrouw (Catherine Zeta-Jones). De film speelt zich jaren na de eerste film af. Zorro heeft nu een zoon die de dezelfde ambities als zijn vader lijkt te hebben. Een nieuw avontuur dat bijna het scenario van een Bond film had kunnen zijn, biedt zich aan. De regie is opnieuw in handen van Martin Campbell, en alles van de film, zowel actie als komische trekjes in de film zijn in de stijl van de eerste film. Originaliteit moet er dus niet echt gezocht worden in deze sequel, maar het entertainment gehalte blijft zeker op peil!

Ook componist James Horner vervoegt de filmploeg voor een nieuwe Zorro soundtrack. Met de eerste film The Mask of Zorro wist hij veel filmmuziek fans inclusief mezelf te verrassen. Zijn score was er een met prachtige thema's en met een orkestratie voor groot orkest met vele Spaanse elementen zoals akoestische gitaar, castagnetten, klappen en flamenco passen. The Legend of Zorro is een volledig vervolg op deze stijl. De soundtrack is zelfs helemaal gebaseerd op The Mask of Zorro, zo komen het hoofdthema en andere melodieën helemaal terug, maar The Legend of Zorro is veel verfijnder en gevarieerder geworden. Naar mijn mening is dit de juiste aanpak: niets beter dan de reeds zeer knappe en memorabele thema's van de eerste film te hernemen. Horner varieert volop met het Zorro thema, liefdes thema en het paardrijden thema. Een knap effect is wanneer hij het Zorro en liefdesthema zelfs tegelijkertijd gebruikt. Dit is te horen in de meest spectaculaire track van de cd, het tien minuten durende 'The Train'. Bovendien zijn de orkestraties en vertolkingen er nog overweldigender op geworden. Naast de vele Spaanse elementen verwerkte Horner in zijn muziek ook vele trompet serenades en voor de climaxen is er de shakuhachi fluit, een instrument dat Horner in al veel films gebruikte.

The Legend of Zorro is samengevat een frisse en opzwepende soundtrack, met wel wat herhaling van The Mask of Zorro, maar met een mooiere uitwerking en dus zeker een aanrader!
The Legend of Zorro - 09/10 - Recensie van Wim Minne, ingevoerd op (Nederlands)
Heerlijke muziek van Horner, die hiermee een vervolg breidt aan het eerste deel, dat bol stond van het geweldige Zorro - thema. Opzwepend, heroïsch, passioneel ... Horner heeft al deze finesses er fijnvol ingestoken. Hier bewijst hij toch dat er wel degelijk een talent in hem schuilgaat en dat hij zichzelf niet altijd hoeft te kopiëren.
Trailer:



De trailer van deze soundtrack bevat muziek uit:

Wind Tunnel Rise, RipTide Music/Joe Webb (Trailer)
Expectation, RipTide Music/Logan Mader (Trailer)
Around The Curve, RipTide Music/Jon Mattox (Trailer)
Phobic Slope, RipTide Music/Jon Mattox (Trailer)
Original Trailer Music, Geoff Zanelli (Trailer)




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