When I first watched the film the soundtrack took over me. It was so powerful and translated that thriller so perfectly. Ellis' music is the heartbeat of The French Connection.
@theimp5901
2 ай бұрын
What a great video. Thank you and I played a lot of his music throughout the years back then and studied with Broiles as did Don. .
@satiricoparodium1979
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This movie never gets old.
@VanlifewithAlan
9 ай бұрын
Fantastic analysis of a brilliant piece of music.
@vector8310
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Whenever I catch the French Connection I savor Ellis's score.
@tomshea8382
2 ай бұрын
Excellent.
@curtisdietz9434
2 жыл бұрын
50 years later this score still shocks me. Thanks so much for this commentary
@Fontsman-14
10 ай бұрын
One of the truly great soundtracks. Masterful
@markbrownfield7545
6 ай бұрын
I'm desperately hoping that more of the 50 minutes will be found and released. This movie and soundtrack introduced me to Jazz as a teen. I went to many Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson concerts when they came through St. Louis. Never had opportunity to see Don Ellis band live before he passed. What a loss.
@hubertvancalenbergh9022
6 ай бұрын
I love that eerie piece at the film's conclusion. A pity it's so short.
@FrancoisDressler
Жыл бұрын
A true classic.
@GaryBadger
10 ай бұрын
Loved it. Great analysis!
@ypure3859
7 ай бұрын
Oh So true! that found was..is..amazing at the opening of French Connection...and i didnt even know why.
@Ryan-on5on
8 ай бұрын
Ellis's dissonant, unnerving, and frenetic score to The French Connection is a brilliant work of avant-garde jazz. It's a crime that it lost the Best Score award at the 1972 Oscars to a completely milquetoast and banal soundtrack no one remembers today. One of the innumerable myopic Oscar decisions made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the past 95 years.
@batesy1970
2 жыл бұрын
Ellis’ first score and ,wow, what an impact he made. His career and life was tragically cut short. It’s fascinating to me that this was the first film for a number of the key personnel involved in this production.
@simes44
11 ай бұрын
It wasn't actually his first score (contrary to what lame brained Julie Kirgo says in her liner notes for La La Land Records release of the 'FC' scores) He scored 'Moon Zero Two' in England around 1968/69 (so far sadly unreleased). Some of his ideas from FC actually appeared in that *actual* first score.
@bikefixer
2 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that Friedkin did not consider Ellis to score The Exorcist as well. The last cues on The French Connection almost sound like an intro to The Exorcist. The high pitched strings and odd percussive elements would have been a natural for Friedkin's follow-up film.
@lesnyk255
Ай бұрын
Lalo Schifrin was originally commissioned to score "The Exorcist", but the results were so disturbing that focus audiences reacted negatively to it. According to Schifrin, Friedkin was so angry he literally threw the score out the window into the parking lot. Maybe he didn't want another avant-garde composer taking a crack at it... or maybe Ellis just wasn't available. (Parts of Schifrin's original score found their way into "The Amityville Horror".)
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