Line #7 AwesomeMusic/MauriceJarre


1	* The hauntingly beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMVnBk5u-A main theme]] for ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace''.
2	* Jarre's most successful works were collaborations with director Creator/DavidLean. Three of them earned him Oscars.
3	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q Suite]] from ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''. The majestic, exotic-sounding main theme (inspired by one of the main themes from Edouard Lalo's Piano Concerto in F minor) succinctly captures the vastness of the desert, and how it engulfs even the extraordinary things Lawrence and his followers do there.
4	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-Q4nmYqc4 Suite]] from ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', especially the lush romance of "Lara's Theme". Jarre struggled to write a suitable score at first, so Lean told him to take his girlfriend to his mountain cabin in Switzerland and spend a passionate weekend with her. The result remains one of his most unforgettable melodies.[[note]] Although Jarre felt that Lean and producer Carlo Ponti placed too much emphasis on the theme in the final cut of the film.[[/note]] It was later given lyrics by Paul Francis Webster as "Somewhere, My Love", becoming a hit in the United States for Ray Conniff and internationally for Connie Francis.
5	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bFvf1JtW0 Suite]] from ''Literature/APassageToIndia''.
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7	* ''Film/TheLongestDay'' theme (together with Beethoven's DA DA DA DAA!!! DA DA DA DAA!!!)
8	* Just as notable are his collaborations with Creator/PeterWeir. The films on which the composer collaborated would not have been even half as good without his music.
9	** Among Jarre's most affecting scores is that to ''Film/TheYearOfLivingDangerously'', which paved the way for further collaborations with Weir.
10	** Conceptually speaking, Jarre's score to ''Film/{{Witness}}'' shouldn't work as it's played entirely on synthesisers (particularly the New England Digital [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synclavier Synclavier]]) and the Amish wouldn't go near a synth, and yet it's uplifting without being sentimental.
11	** The final scene of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' is epic, in no small part thanks to the music.
12	* Jarre's score to ''Film/{{Dreamscape}}'' sounds alternately mysterious and adventurous, befitting a film about dream manipulation. All of it (except the sax) rendered beautifully on 1980s synthesizers.
13	* There's a particular piece of heroic fanfare in ''Film/{{Ghost\|1990}}'' that plays up as the scene where he hounds his murderer to an early grave. Kind of gives that extra righteous kick to it.
14	* The composer's score to ''Film/{{No Way Out\|1987}}'', featuring heavy use of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_D-50 Roland D-50]] synthesizer, is one of his greatest achievements. For a sample, here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoS58uD9Tk the main theme]].
15	* The score to ''Film/EnemyMine'' is one of Jarre's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEWJ9ZV6R0 best]].
16	* The score to ''Film/{{Firefox}}'', most notably when [[Creator/ClintEastwood Gant]] is walking towards the hangar; the camera pans down and a ScareChord plays as we get our first look at the [[CoolPlane titular aircraft]].
17	* Jarre's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiq6xaEYn4 haunting score]] to ''Film/JacobsLadder'' was sadly not nominated for an Oscar despite all the praise it received.

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