When you’re prone to speak in hyperbole, it’s not uncommon to have someone chide you for saying that any one of twenty movies is “the best film ever made.” Usually I’m quick to say that about, you know, Apocalypse Now. Or maybe The Godfather. Or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Or Taxi Driver. Or The Deer Hunter. Or Silence Of The Lambs. Or Rear Window. Or The Saint.
Wait. The Saint?
Okay, maybe I’m not dead serious when I say that it’s the best movie ever made. It does carry the somewhat dubious distinction of being the movie I’ve seen the most in my life. I think it was because it came out at a time when I was a Smashing Pumpkins-obsessed fanboy. Or because my friend Vadim’s father was the 2nd unit director (or was it assistant director?) on the crew that filmed in Moscow. Either way, I probably saw The Saint 100 times while I was in high school.
Surely I’ve written about this before, right? I must have. My buddy Matt and I once tried our hand(s) at writing the entire screenplay in real-time. This was in the days before you could simply go online and FIND any screenplay you want to read. Hell, it was before you could pause live TV. We had to watch it every single time it was on TV and try to get as much down on paper as we could. Then we’d put it on while friends were over and recite all the dialog as it was being spoken on screen. It freaked people out.
Needless to say I owned the soundtrack. Even though the Pumpkins cover of The Cars’ “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” was in the film, it didn’t appear on the CD. Which is a damned shame, because the scene where Val Kilmer and the bad guys are sending e-mails back and forth (through their phones, no less!) while the goons are honing in on his location is crazy intense! That Sneaker Pimps song (“6 Underground”) was there. The song that plays in Elizabeth Shue’s apartment right before she and Kilmer do it. What I *didn’t* know at the time was that the original film music by composer Graeme Revell (with the London Metropolitan Orchestra) was also available. Until about a week ago. Now I’ve got it and I’ve been listening to it and reciting dialog to myself ad nauseam. It must be a real bitch to hang out with me right now. Especially if you’re of Russian descent. I sure hire a dialect coach if I’m going to start up my terrible habit of incessantly quoting The Saint again…
Graeme Revell
The Saint: Original Motion Picture Score
(Angel, 1997)
MediaFire DL Link
01. Main Title [MP3]
02. Break-In
03. Shelley Monument
04. Searching Apartment
05. Love Theme
06. The River Chase
07. The Tunnels
08. Race To Embassy
09. Templehof
10. Love Theme (2nd Version)
11. Kremlin Riot / Karpov’s Room
12. Red Square
13. The Fight
14. Love Theme Finale
