Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemekis & The Music of Alan Silvestri [Soundtrack]

Alan Silvestri | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: December 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000056QDB
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. End Credits - Romancing the Stone

2. Theme - Back to the Future

3. Suite - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

4. Suite - Back to the Future, Part II

5. End Credits - Back to the Future, Part III

6. End Credits - Death Becomes Her

7. Suite - Forrest Gump

8. End Credits - Contact

9. End Credits - What Lies Beneath

10. End Credits - Cast Away

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It might seem odd for Cast Away to be prominently featured on this retrospective soundtrack. First off, the film's score is heard only in the final third of the film. But Alan Silvestri's seven-minute end-credit track is a beautiful theme for the film and works as a stand-alone: it won a Grammy for best instrumental composition. The nine other cuts trace the music that composer Silvestri has created for director Robert Zemeckis, and theirs is one of the prolific collaborations in American cinema. Presented in chronological order, the album starts with the rousing themes of Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future. All the cuts are available on their respective soundtrack CDs (the first and last track being the exceptions), and a few are on Silvestri's other retrospective album, Voyages. Yet this CD shows the range of the composer and director, from the Hitchcockian take for What Lies Beneath to the slow-building fanfare of Forrest Gump, which marks Silvestri's only Oscar^®-nominated score. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly Lacking, February 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemekis & The Music of Alan Silvestri (Audio CD)

Alan Silvestri gives a wonderful impression in Cast Away, but I did feel slightly cheated with the track that they chose to put in this compilation. The first three minutes are wonderful, nearly bringing me to tears, but the last four minutes sound like a meditation CD. I thought that this particular CD would the entire score of Cast Away, but as it turns out, Silvestri only used one cut and played it contiuously throughout the movie. The rest of the disc is wonderful, with bold music from Back to the Future, sweet innocence in Forrest Gump, and sad revelation from Cast Away. I found it enjoyable overall, but will be on the lookout for the complete soundtrack of Cast Away

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it...No complaints here..., February 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemekis & The Music of Alan Silvestri (Audio CD)

I love score music. This compilation (yes, this is a compilation as the album is subtitled The films of Robert Zemeckis and Music of Alan Silvestri) is a wonderful overview of the composer's relationship with the director.

For all who are upset that the whole Cast Away score is "missing" it is well known that there was not enough music in the entire film to fill up a whole CD.

If you loved that beautiful piece in the movie and also love the music from movies such as Back To The Future, Roger Rabbit, Romancing The Stone, and notable other scores, I recommend you check this out.

I, for one, did not feel ripped off as the record label clearly stated on the package that this is an overview of the musical/direction collaboration of Zemeckis and Silvestri. Think of this package as hearing a new song from your favorite artist and the only way to get it is to pick up their greatest hits album.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Release the movie score., July 9, 2006

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John "MovieAddict" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemekis & The Music of Alan Silvestri (Audio CD)

The score to Cast Away is one of my favorites - right up there with Ennio Morricone's underrated instrumentals for "Once Upon a Time in America" - and it's a real shame that, apparently, the only album with music from the film is this compilation disc which doesn't even feature the full soundtrack. Luckily I got my hands on an Academy Awards advance album preview for Cast Away - the CD that Universal sent to the Academy Awards crew for Oscar consideration - and it has six beautiful tracks. But I know there are more out there and I think it's time the full soundtrack was released.