Colonne Sonore - Movie Themes

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Robbie Williams sang her with the remaining Queen in 2001, for the movie The Fate of a Knight.

The song is very used to celebrate the champions of an event, especially in sport. It was played after each final of the World Cup, during the celebrations of the winning team, from 1982 to today. For some sports, such as rugby, it should not be used, as there is the phrase "No time for losers" ("No time for the losers") that is considered mockery for opponents and therefore little or for nothing suitable [without source]. However, since 2003, this track has been played during the award ceremony of the Rugby World Cup final.

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Saturday Night Fever (Saturday Night Fever) is a 1977 musical film directed by director John Badham, which launched actor John Travolta.

It is one of the most famous films in the history of cinema. The film, thanks to which John Travolta obtained his definitive consecration, is conceived as a real tribute to disco music and dominant glam in the seventies.  The music is enriched by the musical successes in vogue at the time, including the original songs of Bee Gees (especially the song Stayin 'Alive), which with the film find a new season of glory.

The plot, however, deals with serious issues and addresses youth problems still current, such as emigration, the use of drugs in discos, racism, sexual violence and gang violence.

The film was an extraordinary success. The film soundtrack, Saturday Night Fever, composed mostly of the famous songs by Bee Gees,
sold over 40 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time (at that time , before the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller, was also the best-selling album ever of all time) . The film was the first to give life to a true cross-media marketing, thanks also to several Tie-in who promoted it for a long time.

In 2010, Saturday Night Fever joined the National Film Registry, which he called "historically and culturally significant

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Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) is a song recorded by Christopher Cross in 1981 for the film directed by Steve Gordon and starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli Arturo.
Authors of the song are Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen (Minnelli's ex-husband, who died in 1992) and Christopher Cross himself.

The song won in 1982 both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe as best film song and has had numerous covers.

Arthur Bach is a spoiled boy from New York City well looking for women who are no more than an adventure. But everything seems to change when he is proposed to marry the rich Susan Johnson, from whose marriage, in return, she could benefit from the family legacy of $ 750 million. He does not feel any sentiment for Susan, who according to the Bach family would be the ideal girl, capable of making him accountable, but accepting, however unwillingly, to marry her.

In these hectic days, Arthur gets to know Linda Marolla, a low-class maid from Queens, whom she falls madly in love with. But she finds herself at a crossroads: marrying Susan for money, lying to feelings, or getting in with Linda, disappointing her family's expectations. Arthur does not know what to do, and during a visit to his grandmother Martha, he talks to her about this amorous plot, hoping for advice that can help him; but the other grandmother does not tell him, except that he will lose the inheritance if he does not marry the chosen Susan.

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Gabriel's Oboe is a piece of music written by Ennio Morricone for the film Mission, nominated for the Oscar for best soundtrack, in 1986. A version with the words, entitled Nella Fantasia, whose text was written by Chiara Ferraù, obtained a conspicuous international success and was performed by numerous artists.

Characteristic of the composition is the ability to transmit, with a few instruments among which in the foreground an oboe, a celestial sense that few other pieces of music can transmit.

The piece has been taken up by many television commercials, among which the most transmitted is the spot of the Catholic Church for the donation of eight per thousand.

South America 1750, in the small rainforest above the Iguazu Falls on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Father Gabriel is a Jesuit missionary who after a tiring ascent of lonely waterfalls, reaches a tribe of Guaraní still in the wild, and manages to approach them thanks to the music of his oboe. They had already martyred a Jesuit who had tried to convert them to the faith of God, crucified and thrown alive in the Iguazú river to the falls. Meanwhile in a small town in the province of Misiones in Argentina, the slave hunter Rodrigo Mendoza kills his brother Felipe in a public duel, after discovering his relationship with Carlotta, a woman loved by both. Overwhelmed by remorse, Mendoza decides to let himself die in the cell, but Father Gabriel, having learned about the incident, convinces him to transform his rejection of life into a penance with which he can atone for his faults by making him climb the falls as a sign of purgatory. Penance translates into a tiring transport of equipment over waterfalls and very steep crags.

Ultimatolo, Rodrigo decides to put himself at the service of the missionaries and the Indians, choosing to take the vows to become a Jesuit missionary too. Over time missionaries have made various missions among the Indians by building a real village located in the Rio Grande del Sud and offering protection to the Indians and avoiding them being enslaved to work in the plantations, but this example alarms the representatives of the Spanish and Portuguese settlers who see these missions as inconvenient and potential threats to their economic affairs. After the Treaty of Madrid the settlers welcomed a papal envoy, Cardinal Luis Altamirano, who ordered the religious and natives to abandon their lands in favor of the European landowners, while remaining impressed by the great goodness of the Jesuit missions. The cardinal is warned by the viceroy delegates of New Spain and Portugal who come to threaten even the very existence of the Jesuit order in the entire Catholic world. A look in the city of Asunción shows how ready an army of Portuguese is composed also of guaranì traitors of their own people.

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Grease - Brillantina (Grease) is a 1978 musical film directed by Randal Kleiser, and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Based on the homonymous musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, it is considered to be one of the most celebrated films of all time, as well as the most successful musical in the history of cinema from the 1950s.

The story is set in the United States of the fifties. During the summer, Danny Zuko, the leader of the Thunderbirds (aka TBirds), a band of Rydell High School students, meets Sandy Olsson, a young and naive Australian girl. The two fall in love, but Sandy at the end of the summer holidays will have to return to Australia: the two boys must therefore say goodbye, swearing eternal love.

Sandy's programs, however, suddenly change: she unknowingly enrolled in the same school of Danny and there knows a group of students called Pink Ladies (Betty - called Rizzo, Franchie, Marty and Jan) with whom he makes friends. Both Danny and Sandy, unaware of being closer than expected, share their respective friends in their story. Sandy tells his version of the facts and is mocked by his companions, on the other hand he cripples the story so as not to ruin his reputation.

When Sandy reveals the name of the boyfriend to new friends, Rizzo, the leader of Pink Lady, having had a story with Danny himself, is envious and wants to put him in trouble in front of friends organizing a "casual" meeting between the two. At the sight of Sandy, Danny, having a reputation as a womanizer, is forced, reluctantly, to show arrogant and indifferent to the TBirds. The group, as well as Danny, is composed of Kenickie, Doody, Sonny and Putzie. Danny apologizes several times with Sandy and they start dating again, even if the initial problems do not completely disappear.

While waiting for the dance competition organized by the school, Danny and Sandy appear in pairs and seem to be favorites for the final victory, but are separated again: Sonny grabs Sandy, while Danny is pulled by Cha-Cha DiGregorio, with whom, in the past, she had an occasional relationship, and with her she concludes the final dance and wins the race. Sandy feels betrayed and abandons the disgusted party.

In an attempt to reconcile, Danny takes Sandy to a drive-in, where he asks her to be his girlfriend, gives her a ring and tries awkwardly to hug her and kiss her, but Sandy reacts irritably and runs away, leaving him alone. Meanwhile, Sonny, informed by Marty, teases a rumor about an alleged pregnancy of Rizzo, who had a story with Kenickie who, when the voice came, thinks it was him.

The Thunderbirds have an enemy band, the Scorpions, with which they compete in a car race. Kenickie, Danny's brotherly friend, should drive for the Thunderbirds, but he has an accident and passes out. Danny takes his place and, despite his rival trying to cheat anyway, manages to win the race.

Sandy, who witnessed the race, understands at that point the rebellious nature of Danny and decides to get back into the game, abandoning the role of "good girl". In the same way Danny is thinking of becoming a "good guy", who thinks more suited to the tastes of Sandy, starting to do athletics and abandoning the clothes from "bullet". At the end of the year, a new Sandy looks dazed at Danny, more aggressive and determined, wanting to approach the way of being of his beloved and ready to win back. On the notes of the song You're the One That I Want the two understand that they are made for each other. Later Rizzo tells Kenickie not to be pregnant and they make peace. Thunderbirds and Pink Ladies, once promised never to give up even after school, sing We go together and, in the finale, Danny and Sandy fly away on a glittering roadster, greeted by the cheering friends.

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A memorable feature of the film is the reason that it is whistled by prisoners of war (Colonel Bogey March) as they enter the camp: it immediately became famous. The piece was originally written in 1914 by Kenneth Alford. He was accompanied by a countermelody (known as The River Kway March) written by the film's composer, Malcolm Arnold, and played by the orchestra outside the screen to replace those who whistle. Mitch Miller had a success with a record of both marches.


Burma, World War II: in a Japanese prison camp the British Colonel Nicholson, after suffering long torture inflicted by Commander Saito for his refusal to let the officers work, in violation of the rules of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, gets to direct their own men in the construction of a bridge over the Kwai River, after the Japanese, in spite of continuous prisoner punishment, failed to progress in any way.

During the torture Nicholson's men had remained loyal to him, and for this reason they agreed to work at their best when he decided to collaborate. Only the British medical officer in the field tells the colonel the possibility that his work will be seen "... as collaboration or even betrayal ...", while Nicholson - on the contrary - sees in the realization of this work a demonstration of superiority of English technical skill compared to that of the Japanese, as well as a sort of moral revenge against the enemy. Meanwhile an American prisoner, the simple soldier Shears, who at the time of capture had passed off as an officer to get better treatment in captivity, manages to escape with a daring escape and to inform the allied command of the project.

While construction work is progressing, an allied commando, driven in spite of himself by former US prisoner Shears, who is forced to participate after it is discovered that he is not an officer, and commanded by Major Warden, is parachuted into an area a few days' march from the bridge, with the task of reaching it and blowing it up when the construction was completed, possibly during the transit of the trooped Japanese train, which should inaugurate it. Through a forced march in the jungle, despite a dead and an injured (the commander), the commando reaches the bridge in good time; however, not knowing the time of arrival of the train, he can not use timetes in time. With the favor of darkness, the charges are then placed and connected to a detonator, which will be activated by one of the components of the command when the train passes.

The next morning the prisoners pass by marching on the bridge to reach the new prison camp, while Nicholson remains to watch the passage of the train. While walking on the bridge, he discovers the connection wire of the charges to the detonator and alerts his Japanese colleague on the attempt to sabotage. When the two are coming to the detonator, a member of the commandos kills Colonel Saito: then begins an immediate crossfire between the Japanese and the commando. Nicholson, engaged in a hand to hand with the military to operate the detonator, in an attempt to hinder at all costs the sabotage is struck by the explosion of a bomb fired by a mortar and, despite himself, dying falls on the detonator, which detonates the charges and jump the bridge just as the train is passing through. In the final action, some soldiers of the commando lose their life, among them Shears himself. Major Clipton, who observes the scene from one of the bridge entrances, murmurs his accusation against the absurdity of the war: "Madness, madness!"

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Over the Rainbow (also known as Somewhere Over the Rainbow) is a song written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. The original version is sung by Judy Garland for the film The Wizard of Oz of 1939. The title literally means "Beyond the Rainbow".

A famous version of the song is that of the Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole who has made a medley of this song with the song What a Wonderful World. This version was used as the soundtrack of some movies and TV series as I present you Joe Black, Discovering Forrester, 50 times the first kiss, The Mask 2, E.R. - Doctors in the front line, Scrubs, Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School and Life on Mars. Moreover this version is the theme of the Donnavventura television program.

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Theme from a Summer Place is a music for orchestra by Mack Discant (text) and Max Steiner (melody) written for the soundtrack of the film Scandal in the sun. Among the many versions, the best known are those of Percy Faith.


The businessman, Ken Jorgenson, with his wife Helen and his teenage daughter Molly, returns after about twenty years on Pine Island, off the coast of Maine, where he spent his holidays as a boy. Molly meets the same age Johnny Hunter, son of Bart and Sylvia, owners of the only hotel on the island.

Love blossoms between the two young men, just as it had been the first time between his mother and her father, who still find themselves in love.

When the situation is discovered the scandal breaks out and Ken and Sylvia are forced to break their marriages: the two boys are traumatized, but their love and the help of the new parents allows them to overcome the difficult moment