Do all these Philip Glass movie sound tracks sound the same? The Hours, Kundun, and Koyaanisqatsi.
I just watched Kundun, and I kept expecting to see Virginia Woolf appear. I felt the same way when I listened to parts of the soundtrack from the Qatsi trilogy.
Is it enough just to be famous, to be allowed to rework a tired old tune and call it new, or is there some sensibility I am missing here? Maybe Philip deserves renown for something, but it certainly is not for duplicating the inspiration he had for whichever of those films came first.
Or maybe none of these are the original inspiration, maybe all of these (and perhaps even more) are variations of some preceding theme.
I loved the soundtrack for The Hours. I guess that means I liked the soundtracks for Kundun and Koyaanisqatsi, too.
I’m in a bad mood. Maybe it’s syphilitic encephalitis that’s making me cranky. It’s always more fun to get than keep.
Ta.
You are quite correct. Pretty much ALL Phillip Glass does is repeat himself. He is in fact a one trick hack incapable of doing anything different.
Compare the score he wrote for Bowie’s Heroes Symphony and ‘The Illusionist’.
Pretty much exactly the same melodic structure and rhythm for both. The man is devoid of new ideas…