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I think his most successful scores in the movie is Grand Budapest Hotel

 

Others which add to the movie a lot.

 

The King's Speech

The Ghost Writer

A Prophet

 

Ghost Writer finale is his best scoring moment I feel.

 

 

 

Posted

'Engrossing'; I'm not quite sure what you put into that in this context.

 

But my favourite Desplat scores (i.e. those I actually own in my digital collection) are GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, THE PAINTED VEIL and L'ENNEMI INTIME. His work for Audiard is OK, and THE GHOST WRITER was very good in context (perfectly spotted). Beyond that, I tend to dislike Desplat more often than not. He's a bit of a 'one trick pony'. Extremely overrated and overused.

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The Light Between the Oceans is a fucking masterpiece. One of my favorite scores of the decade, and actually, of all time.

 

Other than that, I like The Imitation Game, Godzilla... Grand Budapest Hotel worked wonderfully on the movie and deserved the Oscar that it got in 2014. Valerian is a pretty funny score as well. 

Posted

Probably between The Ghost Writer and The Painted Veil. Two great, consistent albums.

 

Desplat's OSTs are generally just too long. Too often it's a great opening cue, followed by an hour of filler material that drowns out the good stuff. The man needs to curate/trim his presentations.

Posted

He doesn't have one .He has bits here and there but a whole score? 

Posted

One of the following:

 

The Painted Veil

The Golden Compass

Godzilla

Monuments Men

Isle of Dogs

The Ghost Writer

The Queen

The Imitation Game

 

Karol

Posted
2 hours ago, KK said:

Probably between The Ghost Writer and The Painted Veil. Two great, consistent albums.

 

Desplat's OSTs are generally just too long. Too often it's a great opening cue, followed by an hour of filler material that drowns out the good stuff. The man needs to curate/trim his presentations.

 

Tell that to Holko!

Posted

I like The Secret Life of Pets purely because it’s so different.

Posted
39 minutes ago, crocodile said:

The Queen

 

That's a good one. Underrated.

Posted

I love Grand Budapest and no matter how insanely repetitive it is without any real ending, my brain just really hooks into Isle of Dogs.

Posted
15 hours ago, Matt C said:

No love for New Moon or Deathly Hallows?
 

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New Moon has an awesome love theme, but that’s about it. Not a fan of his Potter scores.

 

For me, it’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. 

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20 hours ago, Matt C said:

No love for New Moon or Deathly Hallows?

 

I really like New Moon, specially for the Jacob and Bella music.

 

Here it is hesitant, almost shy, as the relationship between the two is starting to take a new direction.

 

 

But here their theme is a little more developed.

 

 

I guess this theme is a little similar from one of his earlier scores (maybe The Painted Veil or Girl with a Pearl Earring?), and he actually re-used the first three notes of it on The Light Between the Oceans 7 years later.

 

 

Still, I think it's a pretty good theme. More late 2000s Desplat (Benjamin Button, Lust Caution, etc) than the epic love theme this score got famous for, but still very touching.

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21 hours ago, Matt C said:

No love for New Moon or Deathly Hallows?
 

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Me! New Moons not my favorite, it's not really even up there, but I do enjoy it.

 

Deathly Hallows Part 1 is up there! Favorites are "Exodus", "Sky Battle", "Death Eaters Searching", "Ministry of Magic", "Ron Leaves (from 1m6)", and I enjoy the hymn "My Love Is Always Here."

Deathly Hallows Part 2 is okay. I hardly listen to it though unfortunately.

 

As far as my Desplat list:

  1. Godzilla
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  3. The Golden Compass
  4. Deathly Hallows Part 1
  5. The Imitation Game

 

Haven't heard Ghost Writer. Gonna have to give it a listen, it comes up in this thread a lot.

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