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  1. Not sure if there was already a thread like this but it came to me after listening to the Last Crusade soundtrack in chronological order this week. One track has always stood out to me from that score as particularly baffling, not just because it was almost entirely omitted in the final film but it's just so ... irritating? The constant, annoying dry brass passages. The mickey mousing. The total disregard for serious tone. It certainly isn't helped by the godawful muddy recording that pervades the entire score but I think Williams really dropped the ball with this particular cue. It's always struck me as the wrong choice for its intended scene. Which is fine, it happens. Who knows how Spielberg spotted the scene? Maybe he asked for this? The use of the Father's Theme at the end is probably one of the few things I really like about the original version but it was 100% the correct decision to replace it with a noble version of the Raiders Theme in the final cut. I'm not entirely sure how the final film version was assembled (I'm assuming Williams wrote an alternate for the latter half of the cue but it seems the opening of Elsa's Betrayal was tracked into the final film?) but it's vastly superior to the original version IMO. Here's the final film followed by a leaked bootleg of the revised cue. So what are some of Williams' film cues that, in your opinion, he got completely wrong? They don't necessarily need to be cues that were ultimately revised (such as Binary Sunset), tracked over (such as Luke's Rescue) or dialed out (such as Goat Bait), but even cues that made it through to the final cut that were either unnecessary or wrong for the moment.
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