Search - Leonard Rosenman :: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

'More like a collage than a score!

Reginald D. Garrard | Camilla, GA USA | 01/12/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Leonard Rosenman had some large shoes to fill, following in the footsteps of Jerry Goldsmith who scored the first "Ape" film. Rosenman decided to expand on the "otherworldly" orchestrations of Goldsmith's original composition and blow the top off of them. This score had to be different inasmuch as not only did the story have a conflict between man and ape, it dealt with war, the bomb, the generation gap, and mutants. It is that abundance of subject matter of which many critics found fault in the film, thinking the film to be too schizophrenic.



"Schizoprehinic" might be the best word to describe the score, too, with its abundance of sound effects, dissonat orchestratral arrangements, "doomsday" choruses, and dialogue bits interspered throughout the LP version, presented here along with two bonus tracks.



1. Main title 3:37

2. The Grave 2:17

3. Retrospect 0:25

4. Nova and Taylor 2:46

5. Exploring 1:16

6. Narrow Escape 1:10

7. No Place to Turn 0:28

8. Captured 2:06

9. Target Practice 1:32

10. Second Escape 3:07

11. Underground City 3:45

12. Off to War 2:48

13. Mind Boggler 2:12

14. The Priest 0:49

15. Ape Soldiers Advancing 3:45

16. Ape Soldiers Continue 0:49

17. Hail to the Bomb 3:34

18. A Mutant Dies 0:58

19. The Ugly Bomb 2:08



Bonus Tracks



20. Mind-Control SFX 4:09

21. Nova dies (damaged) 0:55



LP Program



22. Opening Statement/Cornelius 0:29

23. Main Title 2:04

24. Ursus Address 0:35

25. Ape Fury/Students: Peace & Freedom/Underground City 4:16

26. Turkish Bath (Ursus & Zaius) 1:15

27. March of the Apes 2:59

28. The Chase 3:31

29. Brent's Interrogation 1:38

30. Captured 2:31

31. Mass of the Holy Bomb 5:40

32. Doomsday 1:05



The dialogue tracks include actors James Franciscus, Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston, James Gregory, Roddy McDowall, and a closing voiceover from one of film's greatest 'toon voices, Paul Frees."

The madness of the music only depicts what happens AFTER a b

Black Cat de La Bear | those dark halls | 10/05/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"We all know(after watching the first Ape film) that The Apes, in fact, are not from another planet after all, but from a post appocoliptic Earth. This score is ingenious in that it is contrast to Goldsmith's romantical drama music of discovery and heroism.(as he did in Time Machine with Rod Taylor). The theme song is by far the best in that it's eerie bass sounds depict a ghostly vistage of the Earth(stark Landscapes)as we know it after a horrible war. The schizo-ism is that the Earth is out of character(very appropriate for this movie) twisted into a world of remeinent(almost revenant) civilisation bordering on insanity and total misconception of what they once were(as in the mutants). Trying to explain why one would like this sort of theme of a story or the music in it is very difficult, if not impossible, and it would be extremely rude to ask "why" and in closing I will therefore say in all simplicity: ENJOY!"

Straight from the movie

Tom G. | Mesa, AZ USA | 03/25/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I listen to this while driving sometimes, and it's almost like watching the movie. I'm a big fan of the whole PoTA series. It takes a special kind of person to enjoy listening to this soundtrack music, but that is me. This music is straight from the movie, and they've done a great job porting it to the CD. It was actually better than I expected.

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