Without hearing
anymore, I will guess they are looking for (in this order):
Requiem for a Tower, Gothic Power, or The Gondor Theme Trailer
Mix.
The first LOTR teaser
trailers and the FOTR trailers mostly used traditional 'trailer'
music. Trailer music rarely uses music from the movie's actual
soundtrack. For one thing, the soundtrack probably hasn't been
finalized by time music for the trailer is needed. But mostly,
music for a trailer must serve a different purpose than music
for a movie.
That said, the first
two 'trailers' for TTT--the theatrical preview tacked onto the
FOTR movie (still in theatrical release) and the first TT
teaser--both used Shore's own score music for FOTR. I'm not a
trailer music expert but I'd guess this was highly unusual even
when a movie coming later in a series could draw upon one
earlier in that series. I think it says something about Shore,
his approach to scoring these movies, the use of music in these
movies and the respect given the music.
One of the pieces that
got a lot of attention in the FOTR trailers was
Gothic Power. This music, is credited to
X-Ray Dog
with
Chris Field listed as composer. Besides the LOTR (Internet
Preview and Teaser) and
FOTR (Final Trailer and
some TV Spots) trailers, it
was used in:
Schindler's List
(1993) - Teaser Trailer
Braveheart (1995)
- Theatrical Trailer
House of 1000 Corpses (2003) - Theatrical Trailer
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) - TV Trailer /
International Trailer
The Butterfly Effect (2004) - TV Trailer
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) -
Internet Trailer
War of the Worlds (2005) - Theatrical Trailer
For the
TT Trailer, the music that
caught almost immediate attention was the remix of Clint
Mansell's major theme from his score for Requiem for a Dream.
Now, the score for the
Darren Aronofsky film was performed by Kronos Quartet which is a
string quartet that specializes in new music. Lots of us wanted
this trailer music and wondered if we should buy the score to
Requiem for a Dream to get it. The answer was pretty much, 'no'.
I can remember taking my son to Borders and talking to the music
guy who said as much. Since then, I've gotten the music for
Requiem for a Dream and I agree. It is an interesting score (and
the melody heard in the trailer is used predominantly) but the
movie deals with difficult subject matter and I think the score
reflects that. It approaches that same melody in a completely
different way than the trailer remix does.
Wikipedia has a comparison of the score's music and the
trailer's music. This uses Lux Aeterna (from the RfaD score
CD) but this melody is used many times in the movie and I think
sounds more driving on other tracks.
I can't say that this
remix was created for and used for the first time in the TT
trailer but it's the earliest listing at
Soundtrack.net and in it's
official release, it's called Requiem for a Tower indicating
either that it was created for that or perhaps that is its best
known in that application. The composers are credited at
Soundtrack.net as Simone Benyacar / Dan Nielsen / Veigar
Mairgersson who are part of the firm,
Ant Farm.
Since it's use in the
TT Trailer (and some
TV Spots), the remix has been
used in trailer for
The Da Vinci Code
(2006) - TV Trailer
King Arthur (2004)
- TV Trailer
Sunshine (2007) -
Theatrical Trailer
Zathura (2005) -
TV Trailer
more info on Wikipedia
Another interesting
observation. I was looking through customer reviews at Amazon of
the TT jewel case, soundtrack CD. I thought this one was
interesting:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ripped Off Song, January 4, 2003
By Shaun Brooks (San Diego, CA USA)
I'm sorry but when I was sitting in the theatre and the
trailer for Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers came on and
they played a digitized version of Clint Mansell's Summer
Overture found on the 1999 movie Requiem for a Dream. I look
at this soundtrack to see if he was the one that had
conducted this one as well but sadly the credit was given to
another. So i am very disgruntled and bitter toward anyone
who had any part or supports this way of ripping off true
artists. Thank you and to make my review credible listen to
Summer Overture by Clint Mansell. I'm a very big fan of his
work on this movie so thats why i'm writing this.
