Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Album: | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Artist: | Edward Shearmur |
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| Label: | Sony |
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Director Kerry Conran’s retro-themed action adventure is imbued with a singular visual sense, an ambitious marriage of Indiana Jones’ serial sensibilities and the neo-Deco sci-fi trappings of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Young composer Edward Shearmur is charged with bringing that pulp-visionary, past-that-never-was to musical life, a task he accomplishes with expected orchestral verve. Its music that’s as unabashedly derivative as the film’s grab-bag of 1930s/40s influences, yet arranged and executed with a rich orchestral palate and an endlessly energetic dynamic sense. While he deftly avoids walking too closely in the familiar musical footsteps of John Williams—and there are admittedly no themes here as instantly memorable as Raiders of the Lost Ark’s signature march—Shearmur manages a few smart new themes of his own, breathing compelling new life into one of filmdom’s most cliched genres—and trumping previous similar back-to-the-future adventure scores like James Horner’s The Rocketeer the bargain. —Jerry McCulley
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
New York City, 1939. Crack investigative reporter Polly Perkins unearths plans to create a violent new World of Tomorrow.Soon after, gigantic mechanical robots are unleashed upon New York and other major cities of the world, meting out death and destruction in their wake.
The call goes out to Joe Sullivan, leader of the heroic Flying Legion, to save the day. As Joe and Polly circle the globe, encountering mutant creatures, monstrous mechanical machines, and dangerous tentacled robots, they are drawn ever closer to the lair of evil genius George Totenkopf. Together, they must battle the forces of the World of Tomorrow in order to savethe world of today.
