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Anakin McFly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:28 am

I've never liked that much Alex North's take on the 80's heroic fantasy genre. It's seriously lacking of a certain sense of romantism and adventure.
I'd rather listen to Conan (Basil Poledouris), The Dark Crystal (Trevor Jones), Fire & Ice (William Kraft), The Beastmaster (Lee Holdridge), Krull (James Horner), The Sword and the Sorcerer (David Whitaker) from around the same time.

I believe that in 1981 (the year of Dragonslayer) the "heroic fantasy" score was to be invented yet. Trevor Jones was a serious step forward with Excalibur (1981) in composing a strong romantic and heroic score (certainly inspired by the success of Star Wars and the presence of Wagner in the temp/final movie tracks).
The same year, Elmer Bernstein also did so well on the heroic fantasy sequences of Heavy Metal, still on a romantic/heroic mode.
While Alex North tried a complex abstract work that is missing the point of "heroic fantasy" to me.

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