music of the original soundtrack of the movie The Running Man composed by Harold Faltermeyer 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in a kick-ass flick from the 80s
Arnie and his puns and one-liners. Another memorable line from "The Running Man" is one about the villain called Buzz-Saw. Amber asks Ben Richards: "What happened to Buzz-Saw?" Richards replies: "Aw, he had to split." Talk about "cutting-edge humour", eh!?
I've been jamming with this sound track from running man ,and it's the antiapation of the time feel which gives way for polly rhythms with in its self . Absaloutly brilliant writing from these musicians. Thank you .
The battle theme that begins around 1:10 is the most underrated, pure uncut 80s movie score theme of all time. It’s like Axel F in the minor key. The prefect theme song for 2020
benito lopera perrote jeah the film was his time ahead...now in 2017 the tv shows are so crazy like the show in running man ..and most of the people like those dumb shows...greets from germany sry for my english
there's no message in this movie at all, the only thing I see is one the greatest action movie star: Arnold; at the top of his form in a 1987 sci-fi action movie about an imagined 2017 world with the greatest movie intro ever with a guy trying to cross an electronic fence, there's action, there's gadgets, Mick Fleetwood in his greatest role, there's futuristic tech, iconic actors, there's explosions and fights and a great soundtrack so... it means that if you're a man there is an immense possibility you will want to see this from time to time and I know some women who will too... so here you go that's the message!
I totaly agree! The new movies have bad music and bad plots. The thing I hate most about new movies is how every action sene the camera is all shakey and you can even see what is going on! Another great 80s track is the Escape from New Yorks soundtrack.
And the music is just chord progressions with strings and a percussive synth sample every now and then or a bwaaaaaaaaaaaa. I miss melodies. Memorable you could hum when leaving the theatre.
What a master piece, I remember just playing the vhs video just to hear the music back in 88 when I was 12... "You're getting old John" ( That's a line from Commando, I know :P )
I have been reading the Running Man book and playing this theme from 3:20 to 7:30. And Faltermeyer's heavy piano and edgy synth chords, really reflect the dark desperation that Richards is feeling as a man on the run from Evan McCone's professional Hunter Squad. Ben's body is seriously jacked up. He is wounded, and bleeding, but he keeps on going. He won't stop, and refuses to give in. He is tenacious, resourceful, and unorthodox, which is why he is playing this deadly game so well despite the overwhelming nightmare odds. The world is watching him on the Free Vee. And while the elites fear him, salivating like jackals at the idea of seeing him eviscerated live on camera, the poor and downtrodden, who are dying in the housing developments, see Ben as a hero, a man who isn't intimidated by the Games Federation, a man who says fuck you to the ivory tower aristocracy sitting in the clouds, a total and complete baddass. Ben fuckin' Richards.
Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi setting wrapped around a comically self-serious 80’s action movie and it’s unironically one of my favorite movies in the world.
В конце 80-х годов прошлого столетия. В фильмах,была использована очень красивая и немного футуристическая музыка. Очень люблю фильмы той поры и саундтреки к ним!
6:33Killian "You look pissed Ben. Believe me you got every right to be.But Hey, will ya will ya let me explain. This is television, that's all it is. It's nothing to do with people, it's to do with the ratings. For 50 years we told em what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. For Christ sake Ben don't you understand, Americans love television. They ween their kids on it. Listen they love game shows, they love wrestling, they sports,violence. So what do we do? We give em what they want! We're number one Ben, that's all that counts. Believe me I been in the business 30 years". Ben Richards " while I haven't been in show business for as long as you have Killian, But I'm quick learner. So I'm gonna give the audience what I think they want".
Bullshit, this movie was the product of rising crime wave in the 80s and beginning of the 90s. Like Escape from New York. As usual, they just projected the rise in crime into future and came to scenarios like these, but what they did not anticipate was that after mid 90s crime rates started to fall all over the world and we entered the age of reducing level of crime and less tolerance to violence.
One always gets that impression when comparing the present to past glory. This is because one tends to forget the rubbish which for a good reason disappears, and the 80ies had their good share of that as well. In 2020 one won't remember the 00s and early 10s for the 13th sequal of the fast and the furious but praise this time as the glorious age LOTR, Children Of Men and Michael Clayton were made. If anything has changed then it is the balance between brains and budget.
6:30-7:57 "I'm going somewhere, but not with you. Buzzsaw took care of my... traveling arrangements........... The underground has a broadcast center, in quadrant four. Take her, take her and the code.. to Mic. Dont let us die for nothing... listen, we're countin' on you, don't let us down...... I don't wanna be the only...... asshole in heaven..... Ben...................."
best scene from the movie for me was , when arnold sign this contract on the back on that guy....and rams that pencil his back. a shame that this scene is censored in german tv :D
Uplink underground, uplink underground. If you say that one more time, I'll uplink your ass, and you'll be underground!-one of my favorite bad lines ever!
There are some dated 80s parts of the soundtrack unfortunately. The first part of the track is ok/good, but I came for 3:28 onward. That unforgettable 14-note two-part, repeated synth riff. Against the background bass, it's haunting - keep listening to it almost to end of the track, against the atmospherics. Great arranging for the most part. The guitar towards the end unfortunately is an example of clichéd 80s rock riff, but the rest of that part of the track is spellbinding.
