Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Alexander Nevsky (1938): Directed by Sergei Eisenstien/Composed by Sergei Prokofiev

I guess this was the time Symphonies were transitioning for films as musical scores. If this plays at your local orchestra I suggest watching it, its pretty cool. Prokofiev was a well known Russian composer better known for 'Peter and the Wolf'. As far as the movie, some of these old flicks like Metropolis and Birth of a Nation are pretty impressive even in todays standards, they were the big budget movies of there time. Also, Peter Jackson must have used this as reference because alot of the shots are almost identical to Lord of the Rings.

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