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Re: The Georges Delerue collection rundown retrospective
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• Posted by: AhN   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Friday, October 22, 2021, at 1:24 p.m.
• IP Address: nat-128-62-38-38.public.utexas.edu
• In Response to: Re: The Georges Delerue collection rundown ret... (Jonathan Broxton)

> Different 25th Hour. Delerue's score is for a French film from 1967.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_25th_Hour_(film )

Yeah, just joking around. Is this as good as Blanchard's score?

> Everything about that cue is glorious.

Oh yeah. The Storm was the standout though, holy smokes.

> Platoon and Twins were the biggest box office hits of his career, but
> Platoon was half rejected, and he co-scored Twins with Randy Edelman. The
> highest grossing film of his that he scored entirely himself looks like
> Steel Magnolias, $83 million unadjusted for inflation.

It wasn't on Jon's list so I totally forgot about Steel Magnolias. Guess that'll be my touchstone if I ever try to talk about Delerue with movie fans.

> The next ones are: Beaches 1988 $57 million, Biloxi Blues 1988 $43
> million, Joe Versus the Volcano 1990 $39 million, Silkwood 1983 $35
> million, Curly Sue 1991 $33 million, A Man for All Seasons 1966 $28
> million, Agnes of God 1985 $25 million, Crimes of the Heart 1986 $22
> million, Her Alibi 1989 $18 million, The Day of the Jackal 1973 $16
> million. That's about it for films that had any decent success at the US
> Box Office.




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