Great movie, horrible music!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Third Man
oxhan — 11 years ago(November 23, 2014 08:04 AM)
The music is completely no go with the story, whenever the plot gets to intense, the stupid music starts to play. A real mood killer. How could Carol Reed make such a mistake i wonder!
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Cure_One — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 01:25 PM)
Seriously,it really bothered me as well. At first a just figured it was music of the time,but other movies of around the same time don't seem to have that annoying music.
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manderstoke — 11 years ago(December 08, 2014 05:11 PM)
Oh please, "horrible" music? How can the "Grande Valse Brillante" by Chopin ever be described in this way! Yes, this is not an original composition (I assumed it was). Hey, if you're going to borrow, might as well borrow from the best, and it doesn't get much better than Frederic Chopin.
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alotanor — 11 years ago(February 13, 2015 07:26 PM)
I don't think it's Grand Valse Brillante. I just listened to it.
From Wikipedia
"The Third Man Theme" (also known as "The Harry Lime Theme") is an instrumental written and performed by Anton Karas for the soundtrack to the film The Third Man (1949). -
manderstoke — 11 years ago(February 14, 2015 07:37 PM)
You may be right. I just found several passages that are so similar that I thought they had to be "lifted" from Mr. Chopin. Parenthetically, everyone raves about the music from THE THIRD MAN, but I don't hear any accolades for Addison's composition for THE MAN BETWEEN, which I think is superb. Sadly, the only available recording is about three minutes long. Pity.
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greenbudgie — 11 years ago(December 10, 2014 05:33 AM)
I liked the Caf Mozart sequence. There was nice zither music played at that point. But the instrument got a bit strident at times. It really jangled my nerves now and then. I don't if it was intentional to cause tension.
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sheezcrazy — 11 years ago(December 13, 2014 03:03 PM)
The absence of Anton Karas's zither would really flatten the movie for me. I think the music added to the tension, darkness and mystique. And the man was a gifted artist: the zither, I'm told, is very difficult to master.
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lubin-freddy — 11 years ago(December 18, 2014 08:18 AM)
The whole film shows the world at strange angles, both literally and figuratively. The music works on that level, and anything else more conventional would not have, at least in the same way.
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kalelabud — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 11:41 PM)
every carol reed movie shows the world in strange angles. the fallen idol shows the world in strange angles, literally and figuratively, and it doesn't have a unfit song played till exhaustion to ruin the movie.
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Ioan_DuRacell — 11 years ago(December 19, 2014 07:09 PM)
Lol just going to post a thread about how this has the best theme song of all time SMH
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jnathan — 11 years ago(February 12, 2015 08:12 PM)
Roger Ebert once said "Has there ever been a film where the music more perfectly suited the action than in Carol Reed's The Third Man?" I agree with his opinion, which bears far more merit than the OP.
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romefan123 — 11 years ago(February 20, 2015 09:23 AM)
Evidently he wrote that before
Assassination of Jesse James
. Or even
Memento
. Listen to those scoresthat's how you do it.
Found the music quirky and harsh at timesunbearable at other times. Does nothing to add to this story. In fact, it takes away from it. Could have maybe been a highlight of one scene, perhapsthat would have been a reasonable compromise.
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karnevilelp — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 12:16 AM)
The music in a movie is a very important aspect for me, I totally agree with this:
Found the music quirky and harsh at timesunbearable at other times. Does nothing to add to this story. In fact, it takes away from it. Could have maybe been a highlight of one scene, perhapsthat would have been a reasonable compromise. -
degree7 — 10 years ago(May 12, 2015 02:07 AM)
The music was brilliant.
It adds to the eastern european mystique of post-war Vienna. In fact, the music and the film were made for each other. A bit like "tubular bells" and "The Exorcist."
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