For Jackie Chan Movie Fans, and/or Fans of the Music of Tangerine Dream!!!?!
Question: I've asked this before, months ago; didn't get a good answer for it, so I thought I'd try it again. As many old-school martial arts movie fans know, the background music for these films, is a lot of times, sampled from popular U.S. films; I've heard familiar themes in these chop socky flicks, from stateside films, like "Rocky", "Carrie", "Superman", and several others...
In Jackie Chan's 1978 action/comedy "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow", 1 of the familiar themes in the film, is from Mel Brook's film, "Silent Movie"; however, in another part of the film, where Jackie's character goes out in an empty courtyard, and finds chalk-mark footsteps, laid out in sequence, by an old martial arts master, trying to teach Jackie his style of kung fu, the background music, showing Jackie working out the footsteps, is definitely a familair piece of music by the synthesizer progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream...
...would anyone be able to tell me what the name of that piece of music is???
Answers: I've asked this before, months ago; didn't get a good answer for it, so I thought I'd try it again. As many old-school martial arts movie fans know, the background music for these films, is a lot of times, sampled from popular U.S. films; I've heard familiar themes in these chop socky flicks, from stateside films, like "Rocky", "Carrie", "Superman", and several others...
In Jackie Chan's 1978 action/comedy "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow", 1 of the familiar themes in the film, is from Mel Brook's film, "Silent Movie"; however, in another part of the film, where Jackie's character goes out in an empty courtyard, and finds chalk-mark footsteps, laid out in sequence, by an old martial arts master, trying to teach Jackie his style of kung fu, the background music, showing Jackie working out the footsteps, is definitely a familair piece of music by the synthesizer progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream...
...would anyone be able to tell me what the name of that piece of music is???
...glad you were able to finally find out what that musical composition was; in fact, you're absolutely right, about the movie music samplings used in those old kung fu flicks. Every once in a while, while watching them, I get that distinct sense of de-ja-vu, like 'where have I heard that music before?'...
...anyways, there's nothing like the one-two punch of Jackie Chan's 1978 chop socky action comedy, "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow", and it's co-companion film, the first "Drunken Master", not only for the initiation of what would soon be Jackie Chan's trademark slapstick martial arts action/comedy style, but also for the breath-taking, eye-opening, jaw-dropping and outstandingly choreorgraphed, almost ballet-like martial arts action and stunt work...a fine tribute to the early work of martial arts director/choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping, who would much later, be called upon for something much more substantially high-profile, namely the Warshaski brothers, and their "Matrix" trilogy...