Alien: "It's a Droid” by Jerry Goldsmith (Score Reduction and Analysis) 

Happy spooky month!

The speed with which Goldsmith wrote such complex material is truly remarkable. Incredible analysis on your part as well. This might be my favourite video of yours… :)

Insane work, as usual. I think the Alien Stalking motif fits with the scene perfectly, because it appears right when Ash is thrusting down that paper roll into Ripley's mouth, which is eerily similar to the forced penetration of the face-hugger. The whole movie is deliberately playing on our collective fear of foreign objects invading our bodies (the face-hugger, the chest-burster, the Alien's inner jaw).

I've had a copy of the orchestration for some 30 years but I would always look at it and go, DUHHHHHH WHAAAAA. Now I look at your reduction and it's just lowercase duuuuuhh whaaaaa. Thanks!

It is some cool music, rightly or wrongly, Ridley Scott felt it was too much and used very little of it in the final audio mix for the scene.

Thanks for sharing, great reduction & analysis !

Thanks for another cool video

Amazing!

Amazing!!

Goldsmith deserves as much credit as Williams, imo.

Goldsmith returns

Very good. I appreciate how long it takes to do these videos. In the future, would you be interested in expanding the analysis of Star Trek the motion picture. Particularly the Klingon Battle, Spock’s arrival and The Meld

Amazing cue, the ferocity, dissonance, drive, crazy metre, pure Goldsmith, the GOAT of film scoring.

GENIAL !!

Hahahaha, is that opening chord stab the one sampled in Kung Pow?

Do you have the score of the 2011 film Thor?

Awesome! Where did you get the full orchestral score to do the reduction?

I'd love to see @awintory break this down on his podcast with @troybaker... this is just pure madness and why Jerry was unlike any other composer in Hollywood

I wonder why this wasn't used in the film though? I'm watching the movie along with your video and the music doesn't match at all. In fact, at 1:05 there isn't even any music in the movie! I can understand why Ridley used his 'Freud' stuff for the Dallas in the air shaft scenes, etc... but this music would have worked just fine. Then again...when Ash is looking over Ripley and rolling up the newspaper the lack of music is even more terrifying. After Parker takes off Ash's head this music does in fact start playing as written, but then is abruptly terminated when Ash is on the ground. If you listen closely, it is an extremely ugly cut because it happens right in the middle of the music. Ridley screwed up there. Ahhh.. what the hell do I know? Right?

Amazing!