Serenity

Firefly, creator/director Joss Whedon's hip and eclectic sci-fi series, may have tanked on the small screen, but it garnered the kind of devoted fan base that takes other similarly cultish programs years to muster. One of the many things that made the show so unique was its adherence to Western themes (as in cowboys), an element that not only informed the program's language and attitude, but its music as well. While composer David Newman -- he has a famous composer brother named Thomas (Shawshank Redemption, Six Feet Under) and even more famous cousin named Randy -- retains little of Greg Edmonson and Whedon's original music on the series' big-screen adaptation, Serenity is still occasionally kissed by a flurry of guitar and banjo, percussion, and pan-Asian flute motifs. Newman has taken some of the quirkiness out -- to many a fan's dismay -- and replaced it with chilly and bombastic action cues that scream mediocrity, but for the most part no great injustice has been done. In fact, Serenity has more in common with Joby Talbot's eclectic score for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy than it does Krull. ~ James Christopher Monger

ちょっとユニークなメロディ展開が面白い、さながらSFトーマス・ニューマン・サウンドな異色作!!

『セレニティー』(2005)
サウンドトラック

音楽 デビッド・ニューマン
監督 ジョス・ウェードン
主演 ネイサン・フィロン、アラン・テュディク

「バフィー・恋する十字架」で一躍知られた脚本家ウェードンのカルト人気TV「FIREFLY」の映画版にあたる宇宙SF。音楽は、デビッド・ニューマン。全体的にハードボイルドなオーケストラの聴き心地で、随所にまるでトーマス・ニューマンの癒し系人間ドラマを思わせるスロー・ジグ風ギターとパーカッションが入る。宇宙SFながら砂漠の遊牧民的に聴こえてしまう、そのサウンドは、今までのSFにはない切り口で新鮮。メロディアスでは決してないが、そこはかとない深さで聴かせる異色SFスコア。 (C)馬場敏裕