Enter the Dragon [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT]

Lalo Schifrin

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: September 13, 1999
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: Vivid Sound
• ASIN: B00005O53W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,321,130 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
Acclaimed composer and four-time Grammy Award winner Lalo Schifrin scored many iconic films and TV shows of the 60s and 70s including Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Dirty Harry and also the theme music to Mission Impossible. His most important and influential film score however was for Bruce Lee's American screen debut. "Enter the Dragon". The result was one of the key soundtracks of the '70s, a masterful blend of brass, traditional Chinese music and that early-'70s wah-wah guitar sound, punctuated by Bruce Lee's fighting screams in what may have been the first use of sampling by a musician. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Enter the Dragon music score is a classic!, February 17, 2009

By	Jorge A. Zarco (Fresno, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Enter the Dragon (Audio CD)

This Collector's Choice Music CD soundtrack for Lalo Schifrin's music score to Enter the Dragon is superb. Schifrin is a good musician; his score gave a big, sweeping, epic feel to a US/Hong Kong produced kung fu movie made on a limited budget of approximately $700,000. Schifrin is the same guy who wrote the Mission: Impossible theme music, he wrote an underrated score for The Concorde: Airport '79, he scored the Rush Hour action comedies starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, among other works. Schifrin is from Argentina, I think.
Most Hong Kong movies, especially kung fu movies, use a lot of stock music cues from a library of music. You may hear stock music cues from Superman, Live and Let Die, Shaft, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rambo, Star Trek The Motion Picture, etc. in Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest produced movies starring Wang Yu, Bruce Li(a Bruce Lee imitator), Li Ching, Ti Lung, Dragon Lee, Gordon Liu, etc. It's nice to hear a good, original music score in a Hong Kong movie. Even with its flaws, Enter the Dragon is a seminal, martial arts movie classic. Even though it did well commercially throughout most of the world, Chor Yuen's The House of 72 Tenants outgrossed Enter the Dragon in 1973 at the Hong Kong box offices. Years later, Lalo Schifrin wrote an underrated music score for Jackie Chan's first Hollywood film, The Big Brawl/Battle Creek Brawl. I like the Enter the Dragon score, even if it sounds too "Western" and too
"70's ish" by today's standards.