John Province In response to your comment from 5 years ago(!), I remember having seen "The Wind and the Lion" on the big screen when it first came out. I loved it. And one of the things I remember best was President Roosevelt's chutzpah in sending the warships to Morocco...all those Marines(?), rifles at the ready, double-timing through the streets, to the rescue the hostages! I was in love with Raisuli 😉, but I was SO proud that POTUS would "Send in the Marines!" to rescue 3 American hostages (in reality, it was only one, the Ambassador himself). Sigh! What a sad world it is now, when (some of) our leaders leave American hostages to suffer in enemy hands or even die there.😥
A fabulous Jerry Goldsmith score and a very good film. Brian Keith as TR is brilliant. The best performance of a US president ever put on film along with Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln.
I'm not taking sides here and Milius portrayed both the Raisuli and Roosevelt as mixtures of both noble and flawed (we're not meant to idealise either man). The Raisuli is both sympathetic (because of his code of honour and his predicament) and completely unsympathetic in other ways. Roosevelt is similarly an individualist with all the good and bad that that involves. Hay describes his international ambitions as madness for example. Milius at least didn't write them black and white.
1983. East Texas State University marching band would practice this just as we were starting football practice. The band was about half a mile away, but it's like the wind was pushing the sound right at you. Awesome song, great memories.
I understand you; but it is important to make a distinction between muslim extremists of the present time and muslim patriots of over 100 years ago. So we can respect people such as Raisuli in this film (a fictional character based on Abd El Karim), as Emir Abd el-Kadr (a warrior from the Magreb who saved hundreds of Christians from muslim mobs in Egypt in the late 1800s) and other noble Muslim characters. And. may God shield us from all those who use their religion as an excuse for misdeeds.
@@starrfaithfull6934 Agree... and a gem of a musical score. Great music increases the enjoyment of a film for me by at least 50%. The early Bonds with Connery would be 50% less enjoyable without the peerless John Barry, for example.
Now that you mention it, Goldsmith would've written a great score for a Bond movie, as he did with Our Man Flint and countless other films. You Only Live Twice was one of Barry's greatest romantic scores... should've won the Oscar; and the sweeping arrangements are cousin to Goldsmith sound.
One of the wonderful romantic adventures ever filmed. Brian Keith as Colonel Roosevelt was the performance of his career.
John Province In response to your comment from 5 years ago(!), I remember having seen "The Wind and the Lion" on the big screen when it first came out. I loved it. And one of the things I remember best was President Roosevelt's chutzpah in sending the warships to Morocco...all those Marines(?), rifles at the ready, double-timing through the streets, to the rescue the hostages! I was in love with Raisuli 😉, but I was SO proud that POTUS would "Send in the Marines!" to rescue 3 American hostages (in reality, it was only one, the Ambassador himself). Sigh! What a sad world it is now, when (some of) our leaders leave American hostages to suffer in enemy hands or even die there.😥
Isn't that President Rossevelt?
A fabulous Jerry Goldsmith score and a very good film. Brian Keith as TR is brilliant. The best performance of a US president ever put on film along with Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln.
I would rank Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams as the best performance of a president ever.
@faraazkhan7655 Don’t forget Paul Giamatti as John Adams.
I'm not taking sides here and Milius portrayed both the Raisuli and Roosevelt as mixtures of both noble and flawed (we're not meant to idealise either man). The Raisuli is both sympathetic (because of his code of honour and his predicament) and completely unsympathetic in other ways. Roosevelt is similarly an individualist with all the good and bad that that involves. Hay describes his international ambitions as madness for example. Milius at least didn't write them black and white.
Fantastic theme. Got to listen to it played LOUD
Although not the first-ever Connery/Goldsmith collaboration, this may be when the bromance between 007 and his favorite film composer began. . . .
Colonna sonora da fuoriclasse❤
Sensationell Main Theme by a real genius composer. „Jerry Goldsmith“
1983. East Texas State University marching band would practice this just as we were starting football practice. The band was about half a mile away, but it's like the wind was pushing the sound right at you. Awesome song, great memories.
I played this in my high school marching band. Sophomore year 1993, Mission Viejo High School
When movies were movies
I’m 13 and I figured out with my ears how to play the horn part. It took me 30 minutes
Masterpiece.
Together with Dr. SCHIWAGO and Lawrence of Arabia my favourite older Soundtracks.
Jerry Goldsmith Isolated Score Theme
I understand you; but it is important to make a distinction between muslim extremists of the present time and muslim patriots of over 100 years ago. So we can respect people such as Raisuli in this film (a fictional character based on Abd El Karim), as Emir Abd el-Kadr (a warrior from the Magreb who saved hundreds of Christians from muslim mobs in Egypt in the late 1800s) and other noble Muslim characters. And. may God shield us from all those who use their religion as an excuse for misdeeds.
Raisuli was a real charachter, and a rival to Abdelkrim
@@Mohammedfiz I can't comment on Abed El Karim. But I know the Raisuli was real. After seeing the movie in 1975, I researched it. Wonderful.
BalfourofShaws, Agreed. You said this beautifully.
Raisuli al afani was a REAL historical person there is a German language book on him from the late 1920
asafan There's also a biography by the British writer Rosita Forbes, which seems to be the movie's main source.
I searched this up because im playing this for marching band
A stunning soundtrack.
Requiescat In Pace Sean Connery
8/25/1930---10/31/2020
Listen to the music! The movie doesn't matter.
It does because it's an awesome movie.
@@FranticAnimations A gem of movie making.
@@starrfaithfull6934 Agree... and a gem of a musical score. Great music increases the enjoyment of a film for me by at least 50%. The early Bonds with Connery would be 50% less enjoyable without the peerless John Barry, for example.
The Wind and the Lion, Capricorn One, Total Recall, Conan... all children of Lawrence of Arabia. And this One, son of Miklos Rosza...
If we're talking this kind of orchestral music, then King Kong by Max Steiner is the grand daddy of them all.
Beside James Bond the best Connery movie ever. Also a lesson for all of us
Now that you mention it, Goldsmith would've written a great score for a Bond movie, as he did with Our Man Flint and countless other films. You Only Live Twice was one of Barry's greatest romantic scores... should've won the Oscar; and the sweeping arrangements are cousin to Goldsmith sound.
praise be allah. makes you proud to be muslim. salam.