Cue of the Week: The Great Escape
This week's selection is from a 1999 feature called The F-Zone. Despite the sci-fi-esque title, the movie is the story of an independent filmmaker who's harried by an out-of-control IRS and decides to strike back. In this sequence, the protagonist ends a cat-and-mouse airport chase with federal marshalls by charging directly at them with his single-prop plane, then pulling up at the last minute. I'm sure we've all had occasions where we wanted to treat the taxman in a similar fashion.
The Great Escape
This piece introduces the film's "chase theme", initially in pizzicato violins and violas, then eventually with the full string section playing an aggressive marcato. (I'll confess a trade secret: frantic stepwise playing is one of those stunts that sounds really impressive, but is actually fairly easy for string players to do. That said, the union orchestra we assembled for the occasion did a bangup job.)
The score was recorded at O'Henry Studios in Burbank, conducted by yours truly. And that is film writer/lead William Harrity stunt-piloting that plane himself.
The Great Escape
This piece introduces the film's "chase theme", initially in pizzicato violins and violas, then eventually with the full string section playing an aggressive marcato. (I'll confess a trade secret: frantic stepwise playing is one of those stunts that sounds really impressive, but is actually fairly easy for string players to do. That said, the union orchestra we assembled for the occasion did a bangup job.)
The score was recorded at O'Henry Studios in Burbank, conducted by yours truly. And that is film writer/lead William Harrity stunt-piloting that plane himself.
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