Vangelis? music tells about Deckard being a rep!

there is a scene in deckards house, i think he sits on his sofa or at the piano, and "Memories of Green" is played. when you listen to it carefully, you?ll hear some mechanical sounds, as if it would be from a computer or sort of that.
<BR>could that be a hint to deckard being a replicant?

I seem to remember this in the old forum, and I also seem to remember that the answe I gave went something like this:<BR><BR>i've allways belived that Memories of Green was about how Deckard is looking at the old photos, and is remembering how the earth used to be, the mechanical sounds, to me, reprisented how the technology was takeing over nature (the piano part). But thats just my opinion.
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Memories of Green definately represents the natural and artificial sides of life. Natural being represented by the Piano and artificial by the electronic sounds and beeps. But this doesnt necessarily say that Deckard is a replicant... It links to both... as if to say he is deciding which he is while looking at his photos. Its is a moral dilemna for Deckard... The music is very off key (not out of tune, but not like a usual song. It has its tune but seems like someone is just pressing keys on a piano). This perhaps represents his inabilty to over come his dilemna by prodding through different thoughts (piano notes) in his head.<BR><BR>What do you think?<BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: RepDetect Unit 1051 on 2001-09-04 07:47 ]</font>

The scene at the piano with Deckard looking at he photographs while "Memories of Green" is playing represents to me the "real" and the "unreal." <BR><BR>There is the notion that pictures are not real... they are the/an "extension of reality." Photos are used to reinforce the memories we already have or to put those memories back to the front of our brain.<BR><BR>To take this further... or more distant... depending on your point of view, pictures give us a foundation to put our emotions on.<BR><BR>

I just add that Memories of Green were composed by Vangelis for his other album, released sometimes in the seventies, so it is not original track made especially for BR.<BR><BR>You know, Ridley is very tough man to satisfy when it comes to making music for his movies. For BR he wanted music from few other sources, what Vangelis was uncomfortable with. As a result, V. refused to release original soundtrack with his original recordings back in 1982. Later he changed his opinion...<BR>Scott cooperated with him once more on 1492:Conquer of Paradise, and wanted V's music for White Squall, but this time the were not able to find a common point. So Vangelis released his music originally composed for White Squall on his album Oceanic. <BR>IMHO White Squall was crap anyway. <BR><BR>
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yeah, the song was released before the movie, just a coincidence.
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Opening post by Radiohead:<BR><BR><!-- BBCode Quote Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font size=-1>Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT SIZE=-1><BLOCKQUOTE>there is a scene in deckards house, i think he sits on his sofa or at the piano, and "Memories of Green" is played. when you listen to it carefully, you?ll hear some mechanical sounds, as if it would be from a computer or sort of that. <BR>could that be a hint to deckard being a replicant?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode Quote End --> <BR><BR>Definitely not a hint, I have most of Vangelis's work, and he uses mechanical sounds, or a blend of, most of the time.
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I have most of Vangelis's work as well. I've noticed that his newer works are becoming more symphonic and choral, but the music of the "Nemo era" was an extremely interesting pastiche of different styles.

Well, as I have already told in another thread, I have no conditions to his works from seventies and eighties, but IMHO he certainly lost both is unique invention and influence on electronic music scene in the nineties. His last album I have enjoyed was "The City" from 1990, perhaps soundtrack to "1492", but that one was just too popular for my taste.
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I recently purchased a Vangelis compilation in Germany containing 3 CD's entitled "Vangelis:The Collection".<BR>It contains <!-- BBCode ulist Start --><UL><BR><!-- BBCode --><LI>ALBEDO 0.39 (1975-76)<BR><!-- BBCode --><LI>SPIRAL (1977)<BR><!-- BBCode --><LI>Beaubourg (1978) </UL><!-- BBCode ulist End --><BR>They're packaged in a purple box with a dreamy photo of a full moon over a mountain range.<BR><IMG SRC="/forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif"> Price - 8 Euro & 69 cents. That's approximately 8 dollars!!!<BR><BR>
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