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Excellent score, stick to it, has some great moments in it!

It's pleasant enough background music but I find it more and more forgettable every time I listen to it...shouldn't that be the other way around?

Really? Art? I would have guessed that area was pretty even keel in terms of gender. I've certainly seen no evidence that women are 'inferior' (for lack of a better word) to men when it comes to painting!

Also, I'm not so sure we are past the point of gender discrimination. Yes, there'll always be certain jobs that are generally better suited to a particular gender (lingerie shops on one end of the spectrum; oil rig workers on the other end, for example) and being overly politically correct is a waste of time. There'll always be things that, in general, men can do better than women and women can do better than men. But to be a composer requires no physical work or customer interaction, so ideally gender should play no role. I balk at the notion that women are somehow less talented than men for composing music, and there's plenty of proof that women are just as capable. So it stands to reason that the lack of females in film music is either due to a lack of interest, or a lack of opportunities (or both).

This is all conjecture on my part, but I just can't see any reason why women should be less capable of composing music for film than men?

I am not suggesting reasons of less capability, certainly not mental or physical. I am just judging by the amount and quality of output in certain areas through the years; i haven't figured out why this happens, i am too trying to understand why. As for chances? I don't think Portman has been deprived of any chances throughout a very long and successful career, although her canvas proves somewhat limited throughout the years; but this of course applies to male colleagues too. But why aren't there more Portman's? This is a huge discussion, but genders do seem to play some role perhaps? Stuff like generally (and with exceptions of course) women seem to be inclined to different types of work and so do men? Also, i don't think gender discrimination in professions in modern Western cultures is anywhere near the awful numbers of the past; look around you in business, corporate, all fields, many capable women fill spots and many times - leading spots.

Stalingrad - Angelo Badalamenti

WOW!

This is very true. I'm trying to think of some now...Terence Blanchard is practically the only one that comes to mind. Although there are quite a few well-known Spanish and Japanese composers...just not in Hollywood so much.

Incredible score.

No pc bullshit from me. And frankly, on this non-pc bullshit basis, i don't think that women are given less a chance in the modern western culture, at all.

I am guessing that the reason might be somewhere else? i.e. perhaps most women like creative and clever, smart works, not so much the technical stuff; composition is technical to a huge degree. Especially nowadays. Maybe the fact that most female composers tend towards the piano and strings (the most emotional and less technical-to-write-for-and-arrange instruments) tells us something? As for my field, there's a ton of very successful female photographers around the world and especially the US but not any similar output in video production, montage and editing for instance. Makes me think.

It's good but it's nowhere near as good as Christopher Gunning's WILD AFRICA.

This is for the recent Russian film right?

I want to see the film and hear the score.

I think they're both very good. Gunning's has a bit more temp-track bleedthrough though!

Oh dear! I just watched the trailer and it looks like you could be right. A shame because such a momentous event deserves better.

( mind you, if it's "hilariously bad" as in BRAVEHEART hilariously bad then it could be "good" )

Badalamenti is a great talent and I can always find time to listen to a new score of his. James WOW! has me very intrigued and wanting to hear it.

Well, no, I wouldn't expect an pc bullshit from you. Just to make it clear (as I fear there may be some confusion), I'm not suggesting that women are oppressed in the industry, but that it's simply biased. Clearly something is up since there just aren't many female composers relative to male ones, and I see no logical reason why that should be true. And I'm not saying that people in the industry necessarily ignore women and seek to hire men, but that there's probably still a degree of bias towards men over women, thus opportunities are harder to come by for women in a very broad sense.

Anyway. I was just curious why there aren't many female composers... I certainly didn't mean for it to turn into a political statement.