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Flight of the Intruder
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Orchestrated by:
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Mark McKenzie
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Soundtrack Library Bootleg
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Availability:
The Soundtrack Library 46 album is a bootleg that was available in limited quantities to soundtrack specialty outlets in 1997.
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Filmtracks Recommends:
Buy it... if you want a dull, but sufficient extension of the basic war
genre sound you heard in The Hunt for Red October.
Avoid it... if you want Red October quality from Poledouris in
the genre.
Filmtracks Editorial Review:
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Flight of the Intruder: (Basil Poledouris) Director
John Milius' 1991 adaptation of the popular Stephen Coonts novel came under
much criticism at the time of its release. Viewers who had read the novel
sharply criticized the adaptation, claiming that much of the intrigue
revolving around the intelligent, politically complex portion of the plot
was replaced with black and white wartime situations that make for good,
dumbed down American cinema. For the story of A-6 fighter pilots during
Vietnam of the early 1970's, the characters, while maintaining flight names
such as Cowboy, Razor, Rabbit, or Tiger, didn't closely resemble their
counterparts from the book as well, further irritating Coonts readers.
Adaptations of technothriller war novels to the big screen was a hot idea in
the early 1990's, with The Hunt for Red October opening the box
office floodgates to potential mega-profit imitations. Composer Basil
Poledouris had by chance been the composer of the popular Hunt for Red
October, and his friendship and working partnership with John Milius
would make him an immediate choice to score Flight of the Intruder
the next year. By 1991, Milius and Poledouris would already have half a
dozen collaborations between them, with many of them existing in the war or
action genres (and their most successful venture still being the first,
Conan the Barbarian). The criticism of the film would catch up to
Poledouris' score, for an argument could be made that the music is one of
the reasons why the movie failed to maintain its intelligence and
degenerated into a straight action flick. Poledouris' contribution to
Flight of the Intruder is a very simple, straight forward piece of
music. It is patriotic where appropriate, pulsating with snare rhythms
during the action, and subdued in ambiguity in places in between.
As with The Hunt for Red October, Poledouris would
employ a moderately sized orchestra for Flight of the Intruder and
then mix in his own array of modern sound effects to satisfy the military
genre. The title theme, heard in full during the opening and closing of the
film (as well as scenes of departure) is one of Poledouris' most transparent
themes; it is obviously aimed at the same narrow audience as the film in its
whole. The theme is robust with patriotic testosterone, and it suffers from
the same kind of brutish attitude that left former pilots why so many of the
flying scenes in the film were unrealistic. There is little suspense in the
score, with the one preparation (for war) motif being a 1:1 copy --an exact
replica-- of the one used in The Hunt for Red October. With that
rhythm identical, Flight of the Intruder does seem like an extension
or sequel score in parts. The electronics this time, however, are not as
well handled, with some of the sound effects used in the music reverberating
with a bit too much underwater echo. The tingling, steady base electronics
that Poledouris used in his other sea-faring scores are largely absent in
Flight of the Intruder as well, and they are missed. For the flying
sequences themselves, Poledouris abandons the graceful kind of writing that
he produced for Flyers and instead continues the testosterone-driven
force in simple, Americanized fashion. Thus, the emotional level of the
score is minimal, and only serves as a good listening experience if you want
your stock military action and not much deep thought. Surprisingly, the
score for Flight of the Intruder was never released commercially,
despite Poledouris' considerable popularity at the time. A bootleg has
existed since the mid-1990's, however, and although several different covers
have accompanied the bootleg, they all offer the same 45 minutes of
Poledouris music in very good sound. Overall, it's an average war score that
you don't want to have to think about very much. **
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Viewer Ratings and Comments:
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• 1. Flight of the Intruder March (1:56)
• 2. Tragedy at Sea (6:26)
• 3. Mourning (1:47)
• 4. In the Air (2:07)
• 5. Into Combat (2:53)
• 6. Air Battle (4:21)
• 7. Friendship and Honor (2:54)
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• 8. Fallen Friends (1:41)
• 9. Dawn (1:20)
• 10. The Bomb Run (5:49)
• 11. Review Board (1:59)
• 12. The Crash/Surrounded (5:42)
• 13. The Rescue (3:43)
• 14. Finale (1:58)
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