zoltan902 you put too much emphasis on the Oscars. They don’t matter nor does it belittle the work of the maestro. Oscars don’t mean shit. It’s just a publicity thing so they can say “Academy Award winner” in trailers. Nothing more

The Oscars.............................chose poorly that year.

Of all John Williams' scores, this ones is the most 'Bernstein-ian' I would say. The Ark Theme in particular has something biblical about it

This version yes, but more with the Miracle of the Ark's Version...That sends a shiver down my back!!!

@@marionbaggins that's an amazing cue too, too bad they cut some part out in the movie. Both pieces are great though, and the ark theme is definitely my favorite artefact theme from all IJ movies.

@@wojtekwieczorek6397 Yeah, they were so great...The Ark Theme out of *now 5* all of them, is still the Best Artefact Theme!!!

Eh, it was still the super-early 80s. Everybody was trying to keep the 70s prestige film going and nobody realized that the art was back in the genre film again. Seriously: look at the Big ticket Oscar winners from 1980-1983. Does anybody watch them anymore? Have you even seen them? I know I haven't.

I agree. But, maybe, Vangelis maje some extra work for be considered as the best that year. Maybe it took some millions to do it

@@Theomite I said the score should have won the Oscar, not the film. And just because you haven't watched anything from that era, doesn't speak for everyone.

Well, fuck, if it WORKS...

Yeah that's called planing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_harmony

Well, I wouldn't exactly call them unrelated :-) Cm and F#m are both from the octatonic scales which have minor chords spaced minor thirds appart (so Cm and F#m a tritone (two minor thirds) appart in this octatonic half-whole from the C-note), and gives a very specific sound that JW use all the time. In the continuation of the melody he plays Abm to Ebm which both are in the Eb natural minor, then another octatonic relationship between Gm, Bbm and Dbm, all three in the same octatonic scale (half-whole from Db), and the Dbm being a whole step above the Cm leads down to the Cm again ready for another round :-) Not traditional functonal harmony for sure, but still a pattern that can be descerned by our ears somehow as this sounds so great!

Basil Poledouris. Had he composed the score to Serpico, starring Al Pacino? I just reseached it: Mikis Theodorakis. I loved the song "Beyond Tomorrow" "Beyond Tomorrow," Mikis Theodorakis

He definitely has a full score. Note that at the very start of the video it says "6m2..." That's how the cues are usually notated in movie scores. I've seen several of them, they all have this. Also, I think there's no way he could have transcribed a full orchestra and a choir, with all the instruments notated, simply by ear (especially since he does these reductions all the time on his channel). At least I would be amazed if someone could do that :)

@@vlada131 the reason I ask is that I can't find it for sale anywhere 😊 Hal Leonard have have a concert version of the Raiders march, but not complete scores for cues like this. I've transcribed some orchestral pieces like this (e.g. Flying theme from ET), akd learned a lot, but hard to catch all the detailes in the full mix 😋 If it's not transcribed, I would be very interested to know where I could get my hands on the score as transcribing full orchestral pieces takes a looong time 😅 And the reel/sceen marks (e.g. 6m2) one can usually find online on forums/websites and put in yourself when transcribing

From what I've seen, personal use is perfectly fine, but publishing it in some way online is a much different story. But I'm not a lawyer... ;)

Yes, I believe it is some type of synth.

Thanks Dave, I think it might be used to create an even deeper sub bass under the double basses

Did you have the original full score sheet or did you do it all by ear ?

It sucks because studios actively tell the musicians and composers not to make music that will intrude on the scene, why the fuck they do this is beyond me but as a consequence most film music now is just generic to act as nothing more than background as opposed to something like this which is actively carrying the whole scene.