Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Hello everyone,

Please check this youtube video:


It's a clip from an Argentinan telenovela, called: "La extraña dama" (pictured in early 90's).
Starting at 02:58 there is a theme (that I personnaly cherish). The theme was not written for this show - I'm quite positive that is taken from a soundtrack (most probably American or Italian).
The one problem being... I have no idea from which movie it is taken.

If someone has any idea what is the original score I will thank him\her greatly!!

Thanks in advance

It's extremely reminiscent of one of the themes from the musical "Les Miserables". If it's not from that, it's a very close ripoff.

It has nothing to do with Les Miz or any of its themes - there are three notes that are similar to I Dreamed a Dream, but that's it - it is not from Les Miz.

There is a pronounced similarity to a theme that, if memory serves, is first heard in "Fantine's Death" (the one that begins with the lyric "Come to me"). It's more apparent when the telenovela theme repeats, from 3:33-4:04 -- and in fact, the stretch of melody from 3:42-3:58 is virtually identical to the one from LES MIS.

Compare to 0:55-1:26 of this video:



It's even in the same key, and plays at about the same tempo! Is this perhaps what you were thinking of, callmeal?

The keyboard in the original example plays the same descending eighth note line at 3:57 - 3:59 that is sung in the Les Mis example from 1:21 - 1:23. It's an out and out slightly variable ripoff of the Les Miserable theme. Thanks for the specific example John. That's the theme I was referring to above. Sorry Bruce - I think there's too big a similarity there to say there's no comparison.

Hi guys,

I catually noticed this similarity a few years ago on a "dawson's creek" episode, when Joey sang it:



However, after going through all of the themes from "Les Miserables", I found that this is not the score I was looking for...
(Just as a remark, I'm really not sure which came first).

I thank you all for the efforts so far, and if someone has another lead I'll be even more thankful.

Thanks again.