Michael Small - The Parallax View OST - Comission and Main Title

[@GLORYNEVADASMITH]

The deeper the dive you take in current events and history the more prophetic this music gets .

[@davidkennet]

You're so right.....he tapped into something I wasn't aware of until now

[@GLORYNEVADASMITH]

The Virallax View !

[@GLORYNEVADASMITH]

David Kennet Check out " The Montage " music and video from this movie . .... The Virallax View !

[@davidkennet]

@@GLORYNEVADASMITH Yes, I know it well! The late Michael Small was my dad.

[@davidkennet]

@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt ?

[@TheAerovons]

Michael was brilliant composer and a wonderful guy. I spent the day with him at a recording session in NY and he was just great. This was his favorite score, until I talked him into giving his work on "Marathon Man" more credit. In the end he thought they were both his favorites;) A real gentleman that we lost too soon.

[@themanwithnoname8818]

You are very lucky my friend,what a great composer

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

His composition sets the stage for every movie he had worked for

[@landl190372]

I remember first hearing this as a child forty years ago and has stuck with me ever since. A work of genius.

[@joker3092]

I can't even imagine how Michael Small came up with this,it's pretty much close to absolute 100% perfection as your likely to ever hear.

[@tlooknbill]

The picolo/piano call outs sound like a bird sensing something ominous is about as the Sousa style major chord structured slow march suggests patriotism and the great American way of life while it slithers along into a dissonant minor chord @ 2:23 as if the musician hit a wrong note, but it fits! Genius! As a former musician I've been analyzing this score for years. I've never heard a score fit a movie so well, like a glove! I get chills every time I hear it.

[@lithiumSIX]

I just watched The Parallax View last night, and this song really sank into me. I give lots of credit to the production team for using it exactly when it needed to be used.

[@Jobby1975]

Made the hairs on my arms and neck stand up when I heard the first notes, yes, on Mr. Robot. Brilliant use of Special Music. Maybe see you all at the wall they line us up against.

[@Jobby1975]

Thank God Im not alone. Glad you people are out there.

[@TREDEGARtom3]

Absolutely superb...nothing less...everything, it has everything

[@jesseburleson432]

RIP Michael Small= the master of paranoia music.

[@zerokomma]

...freakin' masterpiece.Love Michael Small.

[@PierluigiPuccini]

A perfect example of the raw power of minimalism...

[@xhall0910]

a litte trivia I just learned. Sean Murray took some Inspiration from this soundtrack for COD Black Ops (original). Similar story and his mother played a little part in this movie. god damn it - it's all connected

[@felixleiter25]

Wonderful composer. His score for Walter Hill's The Driver is also very good.

[@oolongoolong789]

Deliciously, darkly, dissonant.

[@MarcKingston-se4rd]

It sounds like a creepy inverted version of a patriotic American theme, if that makes sense.

[@hagheid]

Genius truly.

[@SonOfMontag]

A perfect Orwellian-twisting of national-anthem-esque Americana... Very appropriate to the picture. Very. Later in Small's score, there's a sort of "Good Ol' Boy-frat-Sweet-Adeline" signature that blends in... Fraternity of Psychopathic Misanthropes (Steven Greer's coinage)...

[@speeta]

This does sound very much like several cues that turned up in "Marathon Man".

[@gordonbrown1773]

Yes I was thinking the same thing

[@Fontsman-14]

He was specifically requested to produce a similar score. I have the double CD of both soundtracks. The enclosed booklet is fascinating.

[@Autostade67]

Though "The Parallax View" was well in keeping with the popular cultural zeitgeists of the time, and playing on a certain paranoia/suspicion of government institutions from a decade before (i.e.: the JFK assassination, 'sleeper' assassins à la 'The Manchurian candidate'; its premise/conceit seems not to have dated much insofar as there seems to be a certain prevalence of psychopathy in technocratic cultures that can be tapped through some kind of program (ersatz religious zealotry, security service manipulation, whatever). The beauty of Pakula's film is that we are never sure if Beatty really has been 'converted' or if he simply takes his cover too far.

[@timoakes450]

brabant

[@timoakes450]

bologna

[@timoakes450]

vegas

[@razvanteleanu4302]

haunting...

[@TheMasterNo6]

As American as Apple pie.

[@saxsymboldjensaxsaxofoon4518]

Amazing score to a masterpiece.

[@markfitzpatrick1993]

HOW TO CONQUER THE WORLD.

[@cameronjones7747]

I wonder what instruments are being played in this song

[@barbaracovell]

hugs nick

[@transitny]

Michael Small, the master of political intrigue.

[@mooville32]

So ONE time I watched a version of The Parallax View when at the end all the men stood up and filed slowly out of the chamber and then the credits appeared. ONCE. I have never come across that version since unless it's the Blu-ray one. You can clearly see at the end of the movie that cut. It's actually a bad edit. Why did Pakula choose to do this?