Martin Scorsese talks about Bernard Herrmann

[@richardgrant418]

The pinnacle of decades of great contributions to great films

[@dinitha11]

One of the greatest of all composers. Bernard Hermann was a genius.

[@guru6831]

The best!

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Mozart, Wagner, Herrmann!

[@yuudoooo]

His score is such a huge part of that film. I dont know how he got it so perfect after only reading the script. Amazing. RIP

[@oblomurg]

I can't imagine the quality of his output if he would have had access to the modern-day studio! His motifs were classic and his atmospheres were cyclopean. A true master composer.

[@oblomurg]

What I love about the score is that it's a horror movie score. The monster is Manhattan and all its inhabitants.

[@leevancleef4124]

Taxi Driver is my all time favorite movie and one reason for it is this absolute stunning soundtrack

[@DoctorOnce]

Same!

[@tagtv]

I completely agree with these views. He was a genius. Vertigo score is a work of perfection, greatly helping to make it the greatest film, in my opinion.

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

Herrmann was Hitchcock's other half and vice versa

[@lilybond6485]

LiverpoolSoul: For me -- the soundtrack is half the movie -- or more. His piece “Concerto Macabre” from the movie “Hangover Square” is so beautiful to me. You have to listen to the entire piece because he segues into something completely different. I wish I could speak music language.

[@tagtv]

@@lilybond6485 I'll listen to that, thank you. I agree about the huge proportion of the overall piece, that a film score can be.

[@scottberman9379]

Stunning, haunting, utterly beautiful theme music and score.

[@Caswell39ADavern]

The best doc. on film composing about the best film composer of all.

[@guru6831]

King Bernard

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

That saxophone just eats at your soul.

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Scorsese was hoping for screeching strings like Psycho, his ensemble ended up being Brass, woodwinds, Solo Sax, Vibraphone, 4 harps, Timpani, Snare Drum, Marimbas, Hammond Organ Haha...No strings

[@Tmanaz480]

John William's did some great stringless cues in his early TV work.

[@javiermorhaim3667]

As a matter of record the score does have strings in the background when the solo saxophone goes in! And also low strings in the three-note motive which is a cadenza and you can listen at the end of the film right where it appears dedicated to Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

@@javiermorhaim3667 dammit..Benny tripped me up again..he did sneak a couple violins in there

[@stefanoripari1816]

Bernard herrmann GENIUS

[@stefanoripari1816]

Soundtrack OBSESSION - FAHRENHEIT 451....BERNARD HERRMANN GENIUS

[@rancosteel]

I would say that the music is the film. The feeling evoked directly by the mood of the score. The film would have bombed without that score.

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

Well I don't believe that any of the early Scorsese films would have "bombed" without the appropriate music. His visuals are very strong. Certainly this score helped a lot to get that sick mood going. In any case Herrmann's music is very powerful by itself which manages to catapult the films into the stratosphere of the composer. That's more than true with all the Hitchcock films, the perfect marriage between a filmmaker and a composer.

[@rancosteel]

@@AntoniosPapantoniou MS made several bad films (IMO). Taxi Driver and Raging Bull were his best. Paul Schrader and the score were the real stars of TD. I think the film would have bombed without them two.

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

@@rancosteel Well you are entitled to your opinion. Without Scorsese, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and all of his best work up to Cape Fear wouldn't be the great films that they are without his brilliant direction. Schrader's script was absolutely amazing, no doubt. But bear in mind that a film is not only the script. It uses the script as the basis and then it is mainly channeled through the director's vision in order to become a work of art.

[@rancosteel]

@@AntoniosPapantoniou I wouldn’t put him in the great director category. Outside of Taxi Driver, Boxcar Bertha and Raging Bull, he was subpar at best. He made a-lot of bad films. The greatest directors were the four horseman that started the Hollywood film industry by forming United Artitst. Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. They are the pioneers, not Scorsese.

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

@@rancosteel whatever

[@christiandeuctor3606]

Iconic.

[@lilybond6485]

I love the background soundtrack of “The Night Digger”. I actually love the movie. Bernard Herrmann is in my DNA. and so are The Beatles. I think one of my absolute favorite pieces of Bernard Herrmann is Concerto Macabre from the movie Hangover Square. It’s here on KZbin.

[@lehah4333]

Funny enough, Bernard Herrmann was one of the first (American) people to speak out in support of the Beatles music. Look it up

[@lilybond6485]

@lehah4333: I stumbled on that a few months ago. Couldn’t believe it. He was impressed before anybody in USA knew they existed.

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Herrmann knew Paul McCartney through mutual friend Roy Boulting and consulted with McCartney who scored The Family Way..for his fee Herrmann was given a Chabrol from McCartney

[@nanasshi0711]

what would i do without I Still Can't Sleep

[@movieman203]

Please post the whole show.

[@richardzion1828]

That guy was learning well!

[@spactick]

I'm sure glad Scorsese shares his thoughts on what his feelings are about film. He's an articulate, sensitive guy that obviously loves film. He voices what we feel. Because let's face it we're just a bunch of movie going morons

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

He's a film nerd. He loves and breathes film. It's in his genes. I love his encyclopedic knowledge and his sophisticated articulation. He's like Spielberg in that regard. He can speak volumes of film and keep his brain in full non stop speaking mode about the mechanics and history of Cinema.

[@Mikhael_bureau]

Alfred Hitchcock spoke one word, Scorsese spoke 2 thousands.

[@drawvk3]

κορυφαίος!

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

αναμφισβήτητα

[@alexstewart8097]

1-Down the middle with much prudence and the love of all that's good , noble and up lifting in life through the arts hoping 2 save the day but never again fixated on only looking all 2 the right or all to the left in that ''vortex'' , that not any kind of water, swirling water or otherwise, which as a matter of fact is gettting us nowhere fast and down low whether riding around in a taxi around New York , San Francisco Seattle or China , and psychologically and physiologically affecting those listening to Herrmann or Wagner's spiel, like Scorsese said. 2- Down the sweet middle mi boys and girls , talented actor DiNero and those others as well. 3-...Shema!!! .

[@marca.6391]

Masters .....

[@pearlbeachwave]

Sisters he did the music for

[@joshsharp7897]

Herman’s my cousin

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Are you a descendant of Bernards brother Louis or his sister Rose?

[@matthewscopelite5303]

Pensive breathing (deep, tense inhalation...quick, exhaustive exhalation). The breath of a lonely man put to music

[@spactick]

The scene where Travis is in his apartment is actually De Niro's apartment. He had a serious clutter problem. To be more accurate? he was a slob

[@paperdoodles2497]

this is a very imformational video comment if you agree

[@bautibotta6034]

I hate the music of Taxi Driver, now i understand why

[@nikosvault]

edgy

[@jazminselena1]

Bullshit I know why you’re here 😂

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Its a male thing babe

[@kazvanrooij]

Why?

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Ok..go back to rap