I just come back from watching the third part of a documentary about the Rocky Mountains on German TV. Each part was about a different part of the Rockies and each part was made by a different journalist, had his own handwriting/signature/style.
Today's part was made by Gerd Ruge and it was about the southern Rockies, mainly about Colorado (nothing to hear of the Front-Range though, Lee).
It hit me like a ton of bricks right with the very first pictures: the music to the documentary was the Brokeback Mountain score
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It began with images of the landscape and the Brokeback theme and I was like "Do you hear this? DO YOU HEAR THIS???" to my husband. I nearly jumped off the sofa.
Later they showed a market and the background music was "An Angel Went up in Flames".
Then a view filmed through the windshield of a car, the car driving through a similar landscape as Jack after the post-divorce-scene. And what music? . Right on: "A Love that Will Never Grow Old". And they made it sound like it had been played on the car radio! How cool is that?
Later again landscape combined with "Riding Horses".
It ended with great landscape shoots and "The Wings".
This are only the music pieces I remember, there was more of it. Throughout the whole 45 minutes, the Brokeback score was to be heard many times.
To be honest, the end with "The Wings" had me in tears.
Either Gerd Ruge or whoever was responsible for the choice of music (or both) must be a Brokie
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He also reported of a family of sheep-breeders. How the sheep were round-up, carried in trucks the way up the mountains in early summer, about South-American sheepherders and so on. We saw them unload and counting the sheep, all with BBM music in the background.
And yet another nice side-event: Gerd Ruge also reported (shortly) about the Christian Fundamentalists/Evangelicals in general and about Focus on the Family and their leader Dobson in particular. Their headquater is in Colorado Springs. He did it 95% in a neutral way, letting the people and the facts speak for themselves. But you could hear the slight irony in his voice and choice of words.
I thought: now we need BBM music again as a counterpoint and to add to the slight irony. A split-second later the BBM music set in again. Yay, Gerd Ruge rocks! Gotta love that guy.
For all of you who can read German:
http://www.wdr.de/wdrprint/archiv/2006/10/fernsehen.htmlFortunately I recorded all three parts of the documentary (hope the recording worked well). This last part made my day
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