A request for soundtrack gurus out there
This is kind of a bizarre one, but at least I can do ya better than “it sounds like…”. I’ll provide you with an actual clip! (Though you’ll have to have Flash installed.)
Go to this page and watch the video of the 1982 arcade game Fantasy. Pay close attention to the music playing in the background of the second “level” – the first one where our hero is on foot, dispatching alarmingly cute natives with his sword as cannonballs whiz past everyone’s head. I later heard that music, fully orchestrated of course 😆 , as the opening title music to a WWII movie whose title I can’t remember for the life of me.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the movie that the music in question comes from.
Feel free to repost this request on any music/soundtrack blogs or forums you frequent (provided that it’s not done in a spammy manner, of course – I wouldn’t have that here and I certainly wouldn’t want it done in my name elsewhere). This isn’t a weird midnight music craving like the Van Halen thing the other night, by the way – I’ve been meaning to post this for months. Years if you want to know the truth. Whatever that movie is, it’s a soundtrack I definitely want to find.… Read more
