Movie Music Tournament Round 1
Composers have a huge responsibility when they're hired to write music for movies. They need to set the right tone for not only the scene itself, but for the whole arc of the movie's storyline. Submitters sent in their favorite choices for movie music that set the tone in this way, and now you get to vote for the best one!
Which track is better?
Dinosaur: The Egg Travels
The Bridge on the River Kwai: March
Dinosaur is a 2000 live-action animated adventure movie. Wikipedia summarizes the storyline thusly: "The film follows a young Iguanodon who was adopted and raised by a family of lemurs on a tropical island. They are forced to the mainland by a catastrophic meteorite impact; setting out to find a new home, they join a herd of dinosaurs heading for the "Nesting Grounds", but must contend with the group's harsh leader, as well as external dangers such as predatory Carnotaurus." The music for this film was composed by James Newton Howard.
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 film about a contingent of British prisoners of war during World War II who are held at a Japanese prison camp in Thailand. The prisoners are made to build a bridge over the nearby river, despite the objections of the troops' British commander, who protests that the prisoners cannot be made to do manual labor under the Geneva Convention. The British soldiers react to their commander being punished for his objections by deliberately doing shoddy work.
The music for this film was written by Malcolm Arnold. March is the most famous track from the soundtrack and is often heard in other films and shows.
