I started posting straight up classical music on Sunday back in 2011 or so. I had run down by late in that decade - how many times can you post Beethoven, no matter how great a composer he was? But The Queen Of The World suggested that I start posting music from Hollywood films because there is so much great music there. And modern compositions, not reaching back into dusty historical archives.
And it's been fun doing this, precisely because there is so much great "classical" music at the cinema. But what I've never talked about is how truly great music can fuse with truly great acting to make something extraordinary. Something where 2 + 2 = 400. That's what we have here, with an Oscar-nominated performance by Kenneth Brannaugh and what really should have been Oscar-nominated musical scoring by Patrick Doyle is what was his first film score.
You see, today is the feast of Crispian.
The fusion of Shakespeare's timeless script, Branaugh's magnificent performce, and Doyle's amazing score results if one of the top ten scenes from any Hollywood film. Remove any of those three components and you have something forgettable.
But not this. Patrick Boyle showed how it's done.
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