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Being John Malkovich [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]

~ Carter Burwell, Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999
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  • Audio CD (14 Dec 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
  • Label: Source
  • ASIN: B00003G1Q0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 255,956 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Amphibian [Mark Bell Mix] - Björk
2. Malkovich [Materpiece Remix] - John Malkovich, Nick Peck
3. Puppet Love
4. Momentary Introspection
5. You Should Know
6. Craig Plots
7. Malkovich Shrine
8. Embarcation
9. Subcon Chase
10. Truth
11. Love on the Phone
12. To Lester's
13. Maxine Kidnapped
14. To Be John M
15. Craig's Overture
16. Allegro from Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Sz106 - Cleveland Orchestra
17. Carter Explains Scene 71 to Orchestra
18. Lotte Makes Love
19. Monkey Memories
20. Future Vessel
See all 21 tracks on this disc

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Writing a soundtrack for Being John Malkovich couldn't have been an easy task for Carter Burwell. How many films so freely sneak between absurdity, fantasy and dark melancholy--often in the same scene? Thankfully, the film composer rose to the task. The music of Being John Malkovich varies from introspective simple piano solos to a snippet of Bartok, but mostly revolves around an orchestrated theme found from the start of the movie (heard in the track "Puppet Love" all the way through "Future Vessel"). There are some odd surprises, such as Björk's dreamy contribution of "Amphibian" and "Malkovich Masterpiece Remix", in which the actor reciting his name is transformed into a goofy trip-hop tune. Track 17 is an excerpt of Burwell verbally explaining a scene to his orchestra; on track 18 ("Lotte Makes Love"), we get to hear the outcome. Just like the movie, this soundtrack can be repetitive at times, but it is a perfect accompaniment to this weird and wonderful film. --Jason Verlinde


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Writing a soundtrack for Being John Malkovich couldn't have been an easy task for Carter Burwell. How many films so freely sneak between absurdity, fantasy, and dark melancholy--often in the same scene? Thankfully, the film composer rose to the task. The music of Being John Malkovich varies from introspective simple piano solos to a snippet of Bartok, but mostly revolves around an orchestrated theme found from the start of the movie (heard in the track "Puppet Love" all the way through "Future Vessel"). There are some odd surprises, such as Björk's dreamy contribution of "Amphibian" and "Malkovich Masterpiece Remix," in which the actor reciting his name is transformed into a goofy trip-hop tune. Track 17 is an excerpt of Burwell verbally explaining a scene to his orchestra; on track 18 ("Lotte Makes Love"), we get to hear the outcome. Just like the movie, this soundtrack can be repetitive at times, but it's a perfect accompaniment to this weird and wonderful film. --Jason Verlinde

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4.0 out of 5 stars A soundtrack is a soundtrack, 28 Mar 2004
As with most soundtracks some of the tracks are the mood music for the scenes and there is also the Bjork track which plays out the film. It's not entirely fair to criticise it as an album as the pieces were written for the film not primarily for listening to independently. If there is a few tracks just over a minute long that is because they were for scenes of that length.

Some of the tracks are beautiful short compostitions that do stand alone as wonderful gentle pieces of melodic music and there are also pieces that are slightly (intenionally) harsh and a little grating. You get two versions of Bjork's Amphibian which bear very little resembelnce to each other but are both intriguing, melodic and a little different. You get a little audio snippet of Carter Burwell trying to explain a bizarre component of the film to the orchestra, interesting but a little annoying when you are listening the album.

The second track is an amusing little mix of clips and bits of the film but does use the f word. so don't play when the little ones are around like I did.

This version was enhanced which means it had a couple of small Mpeg movies this does make playing it on your PC difficult but not impossible. Overall if you like the film you will like the soundtrack, and, as long as you can program your CD player to skip certain tracks you can get a beautiful and relaxing selection of music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great soundtrack in it's own right., 2 April 2003
This review is from: Being John Malkovich (Audio CD)
It just sooo refreshing when effort is put into a film soundtrack such as 'Fight Club' or a Lynch film. "Being John Malkovich" is no exception to the rule. It's a mainly orchestral album, very meloncholic in places, all beautiful piano and lush string arrangements. Credit to Carter Burwell for this great score, and a special mention must go to track two, the "Malkovich Masterpiece", which is a demonstration in lyrical minimalism. Very amusing track to a superb album.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Totally like the film - twisted!, 26 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Being John Malkovich (Audio CD)
Anyone wanting to recapture the wonderful insanity of BJM should go straight to track 2, where Mr Malkovich himself puts on his "Piano in Restaurant Woman" voice into effect. Frankly, mixing JM's lines into a 3 minute burst of sound with a repetitive beat is like a constant beating around the head - great if you're into that sort of thing! Bjork's a b s t r a c t offerings are, in my view, hidden treasures and stir up memories of little Emily swimming silently under the water at the end of the film. The Malkovich Shrine's first few bars (used in the DVD menu screen) are the focal point for me, the atmosphere summed up before elaborating through the score - short though it is. Listening to the composer's explanation about the "Woman having sex with a woman as man for the first time" is marvellous as the taboo subjects so fantastically raised in the film are shyly told by him. The only drawback, like the Gladiator score, is the way scores nowadys have one long piece of music disected into the track numbers, meaning if you want to play it randomly you get sudden bursts... Apart from that, the finale score track is the best conclusion piece for a film I've heard for a long time. Brilliant. All hail John Malkovich's performances!
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