The Thin Red Line (soundtrack)
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| Released | January 12, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 58:56 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Hans Zimmer | |||
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Filmtracks |   [2] |
The Thin Red Line is the
Production
Zimmer wrote several hours of music, with several different themes, even before Malick started to shoot the film. The director then played the music on the set, while filming, to get himself, and the rest of the crew and actors in the right frame of mind.
Zimmer and collaborator John Powell composed over four hours of music on this film, presumably for the director's original cut of the film. However, when director Terrence Malick re-cut the film down to its current running time of 170 minutes, he chose only a few select pieces of music from Zimmer's and Powell's musical contributions, along with original source music, and much of Zimmer's compositions were cut.
In February 2019, an expanded edition of the soundtrack was released by La La Land Records, Fox Music and Sony Music. It consisted of two discs of the music as heard in the film, plus remastered editions of the original score album and the Melanesian choral album. This new edition was limited to 3500 copies.
Track listing
- The Coral Atoll (8:00)
- The Lagoon (8:36)
- Journey to the Line (9:21)
- Light (7:19)
- Beam (3:44) (Composed by John Powell)
- Air (2:21)
- Stone in My Heart (4:28)
- The Village (5:52)
- Silence (5:06)
- God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi (1:58)
- Sit Back and Relax (2:06) (Composed by Francisco Lupica)
References
- ^ Soundtrack.net review
- ^ Filmtracks review
- ^ Labrecque, Jeff (October 29, 2013). "'X-Men' trailer leans on Hans Zimmer's 'Thin Red Line' score, a.k.a. 'The Fassbender Suite'". Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Soundtrack review at Filmtracks
- ^ "The Thin Red Line (1998) - IMDb". IMDb.
