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Patrick Doyle's DEATH ON THE NILE (2022)


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I mean, when accusations of having a cannibalism kink is a thing, then he's likely one of the more potentially dangerous folks that have been recently alleged to be bad people.

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I think they are handling it well all things considered. I loved Branagh on the previous one both as actor and director so I can’t wait for this. Looking forward to Doyle’s score as well. Feels like we are in a mini renaissance of the genre thanks to this new series (which hopefully will continue) as well as Rian Johnson’s Benoit Blanc series continuing from the amazing Knives Out. I am here for it 100%!

 

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5 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said:

I think they are handling it well all things considered. I loved Branagh on the previous one both as actor and director so I can’t wait for this. Looking forward to Doyle’s score as well. Feels like we are in a mini renaissance of the genre thanks to this new series (which hopefully will continue) as well as Rian Johnson’s Benoit Blanc series continuing from the amazing Knives Out. I am here for it 100%!

 

Yavar

Is the KNIVES character based on a literary character?

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11 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

Is the KNIVES character based on a literary character?

 

Nope! An original Rian Johnson/Daniel Craig cinematic creation, and a wonderful one. All the more remarkable considering almost everything these days seems to be based on something. If you haven't seen Knives Out yet, you must!

 

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Well Daniel Craig is my favorite Bond (knocking out Timothy Dalton when Casino Royale was released)... but to be honest I enjoy him in Knives Out even more, and if I had the choice between saving that film or his whole 5-film run as Bond, I'd probably save the former!

 

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1 hour ago, TheUlyssesian said:

The tracklist can't come soon enough! I would be interested to see what themes are carried over. It might clarify some theme associations from the first score.

 

 

Though a lot of the first score was very specific to the Orient Express story, I hope they carry over a few themes. only 2 weeks left now

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The Poirot theme will return. Perhaps the 'travelling' theme, too. 

 

Doyle premiered a track on a British radio station two weeks ago and it was essentially the same new theme repeated over and over - a dark, passionate love theme, which I guess will form the heart of the score in the same way that the Armstrong theme did for the previous film.

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7 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

The Poirot theme will return. Perhaps the 'travelling' theme, too. 

 

Doyle premiered a track on a British radio station two weeks ago and it was essentially the same new theme repeated over and over - a dark, passionate love theme, which I guess will form the heart of the score in the same way that the Armstrong theme did for the previous film.

 

Do you remember which show?

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I think it might have been on a Scala Radio show with Mark Kermode. I remember seeing an ad for it but thought it was a mistake as the movie wasn’t out yet.

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37 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

Yeah, it was on Scala Radio. They premiered the track one week and then interviewed Doyle the week after.

Can you still listen to this?

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This is the first time Doyle has EVER been hired to score a sequel to his own work! Can you believe that? He can't catch a break because most of his sequels get a new director who doesn't want him.

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Still no word on a soundtrack album for this film, digital or otherwise. There was no release either for Elfman's Woman in the Window. It's one thing if the studios don't want to spring for pressing CDs, but to not even bother with digitally releasing an organized sequence of cues or suites is a worrisome trend.

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5 hours ago, Bayesian said:

Still no word on a soundtrack album for this film, digital or otherwise. There was no release either for Elfman's Woman in the Window. It's one thing if the studios don't want to spring for pressing CDs, but to not even bother with digitally releasing an organized sequence of cues or suites is a worrisome trend.

 

It's dumb. Honestly streaming or digital music does not take effort. Even if they don't want to produce an album, like you said just dump what you recorded on streaming. Even minimal money made off those is some money. 

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14 hours ago, Bayesian said:

Still no word on a soundtrack album for this film, digital or otherwise. There was no release either for Elfman's Woman in the Window. It's one thing if the studios don't want to spring for pressing CDs, but to not even bother with digitally releasing an organized sequence of cues or suites is a worrisome trend.

That was to do with the film being dumped to streaming though, and Reznor and Ross having a score thrown out

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For those waiting for the official album, I came up with those 3 covers using the first poster (in the style of  Murder on the Orient Express) and the new one. Enjoy!

 

Original:

Death on the Nile (Alternate #1).jpg

 

New poster

Death on the Nile (Alternate #2).jpg

 

And "without cannibal"

Death on the Nile (Alternate #3).jpg

 

 

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Reviews out - decent notices. 

 

Good notices for Doyle's score too.

 

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a low-key and dark score from longtime collaborator Patrick Doyle

https://www.slashfilm.com/757191/death-on-the-nile-review-a-mystery-that-floats-adrift-quickly/

 

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the music by Patrick Doyle is right up to the usual standards of this exceptional composer

https://deadline.com/video/death-on-the-nile-review-gal-gadot-kenneth-branagh/

 

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Patrick Doyle’s score is sensational, doing a lot of the heavy lifting mood-wise

https://theplaylist.net/death-on-the-nile-review-kenneth-branagh-gal-gadot-20220207/

 

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Focus on the score by Patrick Doyle, perhaps the master of turn-of-the-century English sounds, having shown us what those tea rooms probably sounded like in Gosford Park and on Orient Express as well. His score is both playful yet classic, tense yet jocular when Green’s amusing jokes creep subtly to the surface.

https://www.btlnews.com/featured/death-on-the-nile-review-kenneth-branagh-gal-gadot/

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I skipped the press screening of this today (will go to tomorrow's of Emmerich's MOONFALL, though). Didn't care much for ORIENT, and I'm guessing this is more of the same. But hoping Doyle's score is better than ORIENT.

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https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/02/07/death-on-the-nile-soundtrack-album-details/

 

Tracklist:

 

1. The Trenches
2. What About This
3. The Pyramids
4. Bourgeois Nightmare
5. The Newly Weds
6. She’s Back
7. A Single Bullet
8. Immortal Longings
9. Abu Simbel
10. Come With Me
11. Suspects
12. One Last Cork
13. Goodnight Jacks
14. Alibi
15. Someone Is Dead
16. Inheritance
17. You Killed Them
18. Let Poirot Work
19. One Final Interview
20. Was Someone Hurt
21. I Wasn’t Thinking
22. I Needed Him
23. Perhaps
24. The Cost of Love
25. Death on the Nile

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I'm seeing the film in an hour. But I have listened to the album just once. But this score is mindblowing!

I might like it more than Murder On The Orient Express.

It's very dramatic. MOTOE was more heartbreaking. This sounds a lot more melodramatic

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1 hour ago, JNHFan2000 said:

I have listened to the album just once.

 

Where'd you hear it?

 

On 07/02/2022 at 4:38 PM, JNHFan2000 said:

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/02/07/death-on-the-nile-soundtrack-album-details/

 

Tracklist:

 

1. The Trenches
2. What About This
3. The Pyramids
4. Bourgeois Nightmare
5. The Newly Weds
6. She’s Back
7. A Single Bullet
8. Immortal Longings
9. Abu Simbel
10. Come With Me
11. Suspects
12. One Last Cork
13. Goodnight Jacks
14. Alibi
15. Someone Is Dead
16. Inheritance
17. You Killed Them
18. Let Poirot Work
19. One Final Interview
20. Was Someone Hurt
21. I Wasn’t Thinking
22. I Needed Him
23. Perhaps
24. The Cost of Love
25. Death on the Nile

 

We now have track timings.

 

1.The Trenches 1:30

2.What About This? 1:38

3.The Pyramids 2:28

4.Bourgeois Nightmare 2:00

5.The Newly Weds 1:31

6.She’s Back 2:04

7.A Single Bullet 1:38

8.Immortal Longings 1:11

9.Abu Simbel 3:07

10.Come with Me 3:28

11.Suspects 2:00

12.One Last Cork 2:27

13.Goodnight Jacks 3:40

14.Alibi 2:24

15.Someone Is Dead 1:37

16.Inheritance 2:49

17.You Killed Them 3:39

18.Let Poirot Work 1:04

19.One Final Interview 3:13

20.Was Someone Hurt? 3:03

21.I Wasn’t Thinking 4:53

22.I Needed Him 2:39

23.Perhaps 3:16

24.The Cost of Love 2:14

25.Death on the Nile 4 :54

 

 Total 64:27

 

That's a generous serving of music.

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I listened to the samples and seems to be a very different score. I was looking for sweeping passages of melody. This doesn't seem to have that. I have only heard the samples still. Will have a more concrete opinion after listening to everything/seeing the film. 

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58 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:

I listened to the samples and seems to be a very different score. I was looking for sweeping passages of melody. This doesn't seem to have that

 

The sample for "Pyramids" seems pretty sweeping and melodic. 

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I have just seen Death On The Nile.
Gorgeous film. Kenneth Branagh's love for Agatha Christie is all over this film.
I thought it was terrific.
Branagh as Poirot is soo good. When he takes center stage, I was almost afraid to breath or blink, because I wanted the hear everything he said or did. Beautiful.
Rest of the cast is strong as well. Gal Gadot, Emma Mackey & Letitia Wright are standouts.

 

I think I like it more than Murder On The Orient Express. But they're actaully very different films.
That one was more of a drama and this is almost a thriller.

 

Music is beautiful. Doyle delivers big time for me. There are some really sweeping passages in the film. But that's not what the film is about.

Doyle and Branagh really know what this movie needed. And music delivered

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