> Anyone else think this theme is absolutely marvellous? I can't get enough
> of it. Whereas any other composer would have scored the house/climax
> scenes with mainly discordant progressions, harsh brass and whatnot,
> Powell uses this beautiful, ethnic-like theme to a fantiastic effect.

The score outshines the movie here in orders of magnitude. Phoenix, comic and movie wise, has a great terrible beauty. Her primal, uncontrollable powers are also stunningly graceful and elegant. Powell has really captured the true Phoenix in a way that the writers couldn't.