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RENEGADES
Music Composed and Conducted by MICHAEL KAMEN
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 192

While the 1989 Morgan Creek film Renegades follows the tried-and-true traditions of “buddy cop” pictures, this time only one of the pair is a cop while the other is a member of the Lakota Indian tribe. At the center of the picture is a sacred lance, stolen by robbers during a violent getaway. Michael Kamen used this sacred lance as the focal point for the score. Mysticism, subtle drama and other low-key ideas take prominence in his score for keyboards, strings, Native American colors and percussion. Kamen’s use of bird-like winds and steady drumbeats conveys the Lakotas’ peaceful nature and the deeply felt spiritual power of their ancient totem. While there is also significant action, the emphasis is on terse rhythmic motifs for low-key piano and synthesizer. While most of the score is sparse and transparent, there is a considerable amount involved, with roughly two thirds of the finished picture containing music.

Renegades stars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips and was Inspired by the Babylonian quest of Gilgamesh (teaming a civilized king with an “unspoiled native”), and first-time screenwriter David Rich sought to bring together a noble American Indian and a brash Philadelphia cop—their culture clash brought about when his undercover investigation-gone-wrong results in the bloody, big-city theft of a sacred tribal lance.

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