I know of no other piece of music that evokes the film to come so completely within a couple of seconds of the first notes. The night, the heat, the place, the erotica, the temptation, greed, ill-starred lust, and the chill are all there. It's quite magnificent. The film is phenomenal as a piece of noir anyway, but it's the music that will enshrine and encapsulate it forever.
I get exactly what you mean. For me though, two other films where music establishes the tone of the film and grips you immediately.. Jaws and The Omen...both which won the Oscar for score. Body Heat to this day, IMO was the last score I've heard to this day that pulls you into the film immediately, so strongly.
I also love his score for The Ipcress File, in fact I own the CD. But I believe there are other movies with scores equally powerful in invoking mood and foreshadowing what's to come -- a few. And one of them is Jerry Goldstein's score for Chinatown, Uan Rasey, a session musician, on horn. Anytime I hear that it takes me right there -- and messes me up.
@@MsDemimondaine That's good. I have a suggestion concerning Mr. Goldsmith...(Coma, Capricorn One, The Omen..some of my favs)... But if you've never seen The Reincarnation of Peter Proud...treat yourself..IMO the most haunting soundtrack committed to celluloid..because that's exactly the main character's problem...being haunted...and its subtle.
@willy carvin There are lots of different type of Film Noir; the crime drama, the hardboiled detective, etc. but I'm just not good judging whether something like a science fiction film is film noir. I didn't like Blade Runner at all as a movie. I've read and watched science fiction from the time I was 7 or 8 until now but the darkness, the constant rain, all the steam; it was just so hard to see what was going on took away from the story for me but I can see people might see that as film noir.
My favorite two motion pictures in the last 60 years were Midnight Cowboy and Body Heat. I always felt a connection to both films and it took me some time to realize what the connection was....The Connection? The musical scores. John Barry. It is very rare when the musical score makes the movie. John Barry did it....what a great writer!
Check out his score to "The Specialist".... Its a Body Heat style, lots of piano and horns in the same sexy jazzy way...Unlike Body Heat, The movie The Specialist doesn't live up to the music though...😂
Two of my favorites, also, and for the same reason. There is no emotion that John Barry could not portray musically. His work is haunting and unforgettable. I miss him.
In case anybody might like to know, Ronny Lang was the Alto Saxophonist on the movie who played the wonderful John Barry solo for the theme. Ronny is one of the best Saxophone/woodwind players to come out of Hollywood and someone who I was lucky to have worked with during the late '70s and throughout the 80s as I was coming up in the music biz...I learned a lot from him.
I trust everyone who is in love with this great movie/ soundtrack realizes it is now 35 years old. Some things don't date and this is a good example. Sultry, hot everything.
“Ned, whatever you think--I really do love you.” Does she? That's what makes the movie so intriguing. Does he love her, for that matter? Or is he swept away by sexual intoxication--body heat? You watch the movie the first time from his point of view, and the second time from hers. Every scene plays two ways. “Body Heat” is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. R.E.
It's confusing, aggravating and infuriating because we can do nothing about it, it's stuck, stopped, in time and no matter how much we care about Ned, we can't help him and that end sequence on the beach is like a knife every time, time after time...and the John Barry score stays forever to haunt us....
Ned has the air hostess in the first scene as the Red Lobster burns down outside his balcony. Part of him loves the game and the thrill of getting away with it.
Yes, not only sleazy but I like to say sultry. John Barry was a genius to have written appropriate music for varied movies. Google his genius and you will be amazed. Enjoy.
I am watching this incredibly sexy movie now ..and oh my goodness, if not for this amazing theme the movie would not be such a classic as it's become over some 42 years later..wow what a great 🍿🎥 movie
John Barry is no doubt one of the top three greatest composers in the history of music. And he is perhaps the least known, never receiving the recognition he surely deserves. This and "Somewhere in Time" alone are evidence of that fact!
@@fredmiller6482 So true, so very true. Like Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Rowles, when JB died there was hardly a blip in the media. And so it is with certain geniuses. Today they are ignored while far lesser talents are pumped and promoted out of this world. Sad, too sad to continue mentioning! Thank you for your comment. Agree! 100%!
Listening to this haunting melody ... you need to find out NO more, to understand that this story will NOT end well... A terrific piece, and an outstanding film.
If you like how appropriately this haunting soundtrack compliments this film...I implore you to watch The Reincarnation of Peter Proud...judgement of the movie aside...Jerry Goldsmith's score is IMO the most haunting soundtrack ever committed to celluloid... So apropo.
Thru this incredible piece, you can sense the doom, the mystery, and the mood that is so much a part of this great little film. Thank you, Mr. Barry ....
@@markcurtis7390 Chinatown definitely! "LA Confidential" was almost a better sequel to "Chinatown", even better than the "Two Jakes", even though it was a different story.
When the title sequence was running the first time I saw this film on video, I was so blown away by this theme I replayed it twice! I have a CD of the film music - if it's possible to wear out a CD, I did with this one.
Revisiting .... easily one of the greatest "mood themes" from a major motion picture -- in the great John Barry's hands, could we have expected anything else ?
This was Lawrence Kasdan’s first time out as a director(after writing the screenplays for “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark”)-and one of the BEST films EVER from a first-time Director! This freshman work made stars out of William Hurt and Kathleen Turner-PLUS it has one of John Barry’s very finest film scores!This one WORKS!!!
Loved it when I bought the DVD i would rewind it and listen to it over and over even made it my ring tone still have the DVD hard to believe after all my moving around
As the deadly fire burns..this haunting lover's call plays in the background...john you have given us such unearthly delights...nothing compares...simply brilliant...
“Ned, whatever you think--I really do love you.” Does she? That's what makes the movie so intriguing. Does he love her, for that matter? Or is he swept away by sexual intoxication--body heat? You watch the movie the first time from his point of view, and the second time from hers. Every scene plays two ways. “Body Heat” is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. R.E.
One of the great movies that for whatever reason was forgotten come awards season. Kathleen Turner at the least should have received a Best actress nomination. She was never better.
A great summer afternoon in the 1980s. A teenager dries in the bright sun around the pool then saunters upstairs and gets an iced tea in the air-conditioned, empty house. In the den the TV cuts to an unfamiliar studio logo. The Ladd Company. French horn finished with a bass string chord. Then this captivating theme flows as elegant, modernistic credits are served on a background of rippling rose-petal satin sheets. KATHLEEN TURNER WILLIAM HURT TED DANSON MICKEY ROURKE RICHARD CRENNA J A PRESTON CAROL LITTLETON, ACE DIRECTED BY LAWRENCE KASDAN Spellbound, I hardly moved from my spot.
i adore John Barry! Disappointed that the last Academy Awards,,when then showed the greats who passed, failed to display John Barry alone instead they had 2 pics of 2 different artists on the screen..Not enough was given in his memory. I loved,,"".Mary Queen of Scots."" Dances W/Wolves" WoW....Body Heat..yeah..!.jentilpet/jennyc
A very typical John Barry music! Can rightly guess who composed it by just listening to it. Contain his characteristics saxophone tune which are also found in james bond music especially thunderball and octopussy.
Body Heat is one of those rare films that has it all. Suspenseful story, excellent acting and memorable music. Try and think of any other films that satisfy all those categories. Bet you won't recall many.
This music was perfect for "Body Heat" and elevated it somehow. This is a version of it, but check out the introductory credits (with the fire, fabric and skin visuals) -- it is more contained, not better, but different, and somehow more intense. I want to look up other soundtracks he has done now.
It's a movie that stays with you through the decades, and the music is a truly essential part...without John Barry's score it'd have been just a second rate '80's Noir with Ted Danson's unpleasant dancing sticking in your memory forever...
I agree. I enjoyed the movie but never thought it was a great movie. John Barry's music, on the other hand, is pure genius. I bought the DVD for the music.
The movie is the finest example of gut-wrenching erotica. The score by Barry fits like a glove. The scene on the pier with Racine and Lowenstein is one of the scariest I've ever seen. There's no way out for Ned, and he realizes it.
Thank you Mr. barry for this gem and so many others I had the pleasure of enjoying since I was a kid. Your music will remain among us forever. Have a good trip. Thanks for posting the original recording od BODY HEAT Pinorizz.
Lucky owner of of the Label-X vinyl on 45 rpmand ltd./numbered cd. A gem since it came out. John Barry genius ! Lawrence Kasdan couldn't have made a better movie. What cast and performances.
Thanks for putting this on youtube. I remembered how much I loved this John Barry theme and wound up buying the bluray dvd of Body Heat mostly for the fabulous score. I like the movie, but I love John Barry.
THIS IS IT! I WAS GOING CRAZY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE I HEARD THIS TUNE IN A VIVIEN LEIGH SCENE OF HER BREAKDOWN IN "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE".........DID YOU BORROW IT JOHN? BEAUTIFUL..
Kathleen Turner played the most ruthless woman in movie history in Body Heat. How she didn't get at least an Oscar nomination is a crime. Evil to the core.
I know of no other piece of music that evokes the film to come so completely within a couple of seconds of the first notes. The night, the heat, the place, the erotica, the temptation, greed, ill-starred lust, and the chill are all there. It's quite magnificent. The film is phenomenal as a piece of noir anyway, but it's the music that will enshrine and encapsulate it forever.
I get exactly what you mean. For me though, two other films where music establishes the tone of the film and grips you immediately.. Jaws and The Omen...both which won the Oscar for score. Body Heat to this day, IMO was the last score I've heard to this day that pulls you into the film immediately, so strongly.
You said it like you read my mind ..100% whew what a great movie and if not for the music it would not be among the great classic as it is..
I also love his score for The Ipcress File, in fact I own the CD. But I believe there are other movies with scores equally powerful in invoking mood and foreshadowing what's to come -- a few. And one of them is Jerry Goldstein's score for Chinatown, Uan Rasey, a session musician, on horn. Anytime I hear that it takes me right there -- and messes me up.
@@MsDemimondaine That's good. I have a suggestion concerning Mr. Goldsmith...(Coma, Capricorn One, The Omen..some of my favs)... But if you've never seen The Reincarnation of Peter Proud...treat yourself..IMO the most haunting soundtrack committed to celluloid..because that's exactly the main character's problem...being haunted...and its subtle.
Me too
The sexiest main theme ever. RIP
Body heat is definitely one the best film noir ever made.
An update of Double Indemnity.
Yes it is, and Kathleen Turner the most beautiful actress in Hollywood.
"Officially" film noir started in 1941 with the Maltese Falcon and ended in 1958 with Touch of Evil. But Body Heat was absolutely perfect.
@willy carvin There are lots of different type of Film Noir; the crime drama, the hardboiled detective, etc. but I'm just not good judging whether something like a science fiction film is film noir. I didn't like Blade Runner at all as a movie. I've read and watched science fiction from the time I was 7 or 8 until now but the darkness, the constant rain, all the steam; it was just so hard to see what was going on took away from the story for me but I can see people might see that as film noir.
Dont over react
My favorite two motion pictures in the last 60 years were Midnight Cowboy and Body Heat. I always felt a connection to both films and it took me some time to realize what the connection was....The Connection? The musical scores. John Barry. It is very rare when the musical score makes the movie. John Barry did it....what a great writer!
Check out his score to "The Specialist".... Its a Body Heat style, lots of piano and horns in the same sexy jazzy way...Unlike Body Heat, The movie The Specialist doesn't live up to the music though...😂
Not to forget 11 James Bond films.
Two of my favorites, also, and for the same reason. There is no emotion that John Barry could not portray musically. His work is haunting and unforgettable. I miss him.
Ditto!@@4Topwood
In case anybody might like to know, Ronny Lang was the Alto Saxophonist on the movie who played the wonderful John Barry solo for the theme. Ronny is one of the best Saxophone/woodwind players to come out of Hollywood and someone who I was lucky to have worked with during the late '70s and throughout the 80s as I was coming up in the music biz...I learned a lot from him.
Sensual & understated
Sublime.
One of the greatest instrumental sexiest songs for an opening of a movie I've ever heard.
I trust everyone who is in love with this great movie/ soundtrack realizes it is now 35 years old. Some things don't date and this is a good example. Sultry, hot everything.
+Cathy Womak
No argument here...
“Ned, whatever you think--I really do love you.”
Does she? That's what makes the movie so intriguing. Does he love her, for that matter? Or is he swept away by sexual intoxication--body heat? You watch the movie the first time from his point of view, and the second time from hers. Every scene plays two ways. “Body Heat” is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. R.E.
It's confusing, aggravating and infuriating because we can do nothing about it, it's stuck, stopped, in time and no matter how much we care about Ned, we can't help him and that end sequence on the beach is like a knife every time, time after time...and the John Barry score stays forever to haunt us....
Came here from fans of Bohren and der Club of Gore. It has a Noir Soundscape like this, but more understated. Worth a listen.
Ned has the air hostess in the first scene as the Red Lobster burns down outside his balcony. Part of him loves the game and the thrill of getting away with it.
I love the sleazy undertones of this music. Fits the film perfectly.
Yes, not only sleazy but I like to say sultry. John Barry was a genius to have written appropriate music for varied movies. Google his genius and you will be amazed. Enjoy.
( we're all in agreement then - South Florida ).
I am watching this incredibly sexy movie now ..and oh my goodness, if not for this amazing theme the movie would not be such a classic as it's become over some 42 years later..wow what a great 🍿🎥 movie
Great music, great acting, great story, great movie, difficult to believe it is over 40 years since it was made.
John Barry is no doubt one of the top three greatest composers in the history of music. And he is perhaps the least known, never receiving the recognition he surely deserves. This and "Somewhere in Time" alone are evidence of that fact!
Don't forget about all the James Bond films he scored. Although they are overlooked musically there is some excellent music in those action films.
@@fredmiller6482 So true, so very true. Like Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Rowles, when JB died there was hardly a blip in the media. And so it is with certain geniuses. Today they are ignored while far lesser talents are pumped and promoted out of this world. Sad, too sad to continue mentioning! Thank you for your comment. Agree! 100%!
This shit is downright chilling... what a hard-hitting gem of a film.
Would have been a perfect movie to make a sequel...after Ned gets out of jail...looking for Mattie.
Great actors,plot and theme song from a chillingly fantastic movie. Why can't today's offerings,sadly,match such marvelous films?
How a noir theme should ALWAYS be done, and there have been so many imitations since...
Almost every actor/actress gives his/her finest performance in this classic cult film. RIP William Hurt.
RIP William Hurt
Listening to this haunting melody ... you need to find out NO more, to understand that this story will NOT end well... A terrific piece, and an outstanding film.
your comments are spot on and very well stated in similar high quality to the music and movie itself. great job!
That's the essence of true film noir; there is a resolution but no happy endings.
If you like how appropriately this haunting soundtrack compliments this film...I implore you to watch The Reincarnation of Peter Proud...judgement of the movie aside...Jerry Goldsmith's score is IMO the most haunting soundtrack ever committed to celluloid... So apropo.
Thru this incredible piece, you can sense the doom, the mystery, and the mood that is so much a part of this great little film. Thank you, Mr. Barry ....
A classic theme by Barry that sounds as haunting today as it did when the movie was released.
Always dug this theme song and the arrangements, haunting, seductive and intense
Chinatown, Farewell my Lovely and Body Heat. Noir at its best!
boom
Double Indemnity.
The big sleep.
LA Confidential
@@markcurtis7390
Chinatown definitely!
"LA Confidential" was almost a better sequel to "Chinatown", even better than the "Two Jakes", even though it was a different story.
Amazing undertones...all is said in the background.
Yes, it's stunning. I listen to the album constantly.
All hail to the king! There will never be another John Barry. There's no work of his I've disliked. The man was clearly the best there was.
Kathleen Turner was HOT in her time
But now...
@TheEternauta666 And she invited it inside.
She sure was. And I'm a gay guy!
@@MandM-tb3lvLol
When the title sequence was running the first time I saw this film on video, I was so blown away by this theme I replayed it twice! I have a CD of the film music - if it's possible to wear out a CD, I did with this one.
Revisiting .... easily one of the greatest "mood themes" from a major motion picture -- in the great John Barry's hands, could we have expected anything else ?
What a genius. Sorry to hear of his passing.
He left us too soon, but his music will live forever.
This was Lawrence Kasdan’s first time out as a director(after writing the screenplays for “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark”)-and one of the BEST films EVER from a first-time Director! This freshman work made stars out of William Hurt and Kathleen Turner-PLUS it has one of John Barry’s very finest film scores!This one WORKS!!!
Loved it when I bought the DVD i would rewind it and listen to it over and over even made it my ring tone still have the DVD hard to believe after all my moving around
Outstanding...perfect music for this wonderful movie!!! Maybe the best film/soundtrack ever- still love listening & watching to this day!!!!!
Love the subtle nod to the film noir of the 50's...Matty gives Ned the fedora and he puts it on...perfect nod.
When Ned finds her at that quiet little bar in Pinehurst...how alluring is beauty.. ..
my mistake its pinehaven, pinehurst is a famous golf course
When he took the chair and broke the window to get to her I knew right then and there he was hooked and she was nothing but trouble.
Maybe the best film/soundtrack ever- still love listening & watching to this day. Itdoesnt get any better than this.
I agree
Masterpiece especially with a little wine or scotch.
Or maybe bourbon - like William Hurt’s character orders? 😉
how about a beautiful girl?
@@syedadeelhussain2691
A fly babe at your side, as well. Considering the movie...well...maybe not then just give me the scotch.
....... and sultry KATHLEEN TURNER. ❤️
Reminds me of my last boyfriend. It didn't end well either.
Outstanding......perfect sound for this wonderful movie.....
Captures perfectly the soul caught up in an emotional situation that leads to committing a crime.sultry/dangerous.brilliant.
As the deadly fire burns..this haunting lover's call plays in the background...john you have given us such unearthly delights...nothing compares...simply brilliant...
This sound is incredibly beautiful
“Ned, whatever you think--I really do love you.”
Does she? That's what makes the movie so intriguing. Does he love her, for that matter? Or is he swept away by sexual intoxication--body heat? You watch the movie the first time from his point of view, and the second time from hers. Every scene plays two ways. “Body Heat” is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. R.E.
She don’t love him 😂 she left that man sweating in a cell for the rest of his life while she was relaxing in paradise.
body heat just gets better as the decades fly by. and no thanks to the indisputable genius of John Barry.
Barry at his best.
Forget the rest.
Never better.
Marriage of the instruments is so shocking good. Less is more...
Loved this movie so much
Me too...read comment I just left.
One of the great movies that for whatever reason was forgotten come awards season. Kathleen Turner at the least should have received a Best actress nomination. She was never better.
A great summer afternoon in the 1980s. A teenager dries in the bright sun around the pool then saunters upstairs and gets an iced tea in the air-conditioned, empty house. In the den the TV cuts to an unfamiliar studio logo. The Ladd Company. French horn finished with a bass string chord. Then this captivating theme flows as elegant, modernistic credits are served on a background of rippling rose-petal satin sheets.
KATHLEEN TURNER
WILLIAM HURT
TED DANSON
MICKEY ROURKE
RICHARD CRENNA
J A PRESTON
CAROL LITTLETON, ACE
DIRECTED BY LAWRENCE KASDAN
Spellbound, I hardly moved from my spot.
A truly amazing composer, but (for me) this is is finest achievement. Thank you for sharing it on RUclips. R.I.P. Mr. Barry...
Wild about this song...for 35 years!
i adore John Barry! Disappointed that the last Academy Awards,,when then showed the greats who passed, failed to display John Barry alone instead they had 2 pics of 2 different artists on the screen..Not enough was given in his memory. I loved,,"".Mary Queen of Scots."" Dances W/Wolves" WoW....Body Heat..yeah..!.jentilpet/jennyc
A very typical John Barry music! Can rightly guess who composed it by just listening to it. Contain his characteristics saxophone tune which are also found in james bond music especially thunderball and octopussy.
loved this movie and music
Scary, sexy, perfection.
Body Heat is one of those rare films that has it all. Suspenseful story, excellent acting and memorable music. Try and think of any other films that satisfy all those categories. Bet you won't recall many.
The Talented Mr. Ripley comes to mind.😊🎬
Absolutely mesmerizing... sultry...and more sultry!
All I can ask is "who is writing music like this anymore?".
So perfect... it haunts your head for days afterwards.
Booooy Did She Play Him in the Movie “Body Heat”!🌹
I like Kathleen Turner smoking in this movie....
Ronnie Lang is playing the sax.....how sweet is this....simply chilling ....
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Another brilliant piece from a talent with few peers
William Hurt RIP Memory Eternal.Poor Ned Racine got devoured by a Black Widow...Bye, bye Brazil....
This music was perfect for "Body Heat" and elevated it somehow. This is a version of it, but check out the introductory credits (with the fire, fabric and skin visuals) -- it is more contained, not better, but different, and somehow more intense. I want to look up other soundtracks he has done now.
Beautiful!
RIP Michael Herbert Lang aka Michael "Mike" Anthony Lang (80, Aug 5)
Great film and score which you never forget.
Love the movie and this song
the legendary John Barry turns a so so film into an unforgettable classic. genius.
Loved the movie and this haunting theme....
It's a movie that stays with you through the decades, and the music is a truly essential part...without John Barry's score it'd have been just a second rate '80's Noir with Ted Danson's unpleasant dancing sticking in your memory forever...
LMAO
I agree. I enjoyed the movie but never thought it was a great movie. John Barry's music, on the other hand, is pure genius. I bought the DVD for the music.
SHOULD HAVE WON AN OSCAR. PERIOD!!!
The movie is the finest example of gut-wrenching erotica. The score by Barry fits like a glove. The scene on the pier with Racine and Lowenstein is one of the scariest I've ever seen. There's no way out for Ned, and he realizes it.
Music at the same time beautiful and exciting...
Thank you Mr. barry for this gem and so many others I had the pleasure of enjoying since I was a kid. Your music will remain among us forever. Have a good trip.
Thanks for posting the original recording od BODY HEAT Pinorizz.
Memories. Bittersweet.
What a legacy Barry conducted. Genius.
Awesome!
Lucky owner of of the Label-X vinyl on 45 rpmand ltd./numbered cd. A gem since it came out. John Barry genius ! Lawrence Kasdan couldn't have made a better movie. What cast and performances.
this music conveys many things ..
I love you Ned,......said the Spider to the Fly. John Barry also did the Music Score to the Specialist.
Check out John Barry's Moviola!
sensational film and soundtrack !
Ce film est vraiment réussi et cette musique envoûtante de John Barry l 'est tout autant. Superbe alchimie.
I loved John Barry's music so classy and sexy
just love this music : - )
Words for me can’t explain how it makes me feel
A classic from the 80's film noir!
Thanks for putting this on youtube. I remembered how much I loved this John Barry theme and wound up buying the bluray dvd of Body Heat mostly for the fabulous score. I like the movie, but I love John Barry.
WOW what a lot of talent!
THIS IS IT! I WAS GOING CRAZY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE I HEARD THIS TUNE IN A VIVIEN LEIGH SCENE OF HER BREAKDOWN IN "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE".........DID YOU BORROW IT JOHN? BEAUTIFUL..
"Some guys, once they get a whiff of it..." Best new film noir movie ever made!" Double Indemnity" is obvious, and so is "Postman always Rings Twice"
Anyone else here in 2022? ❤
i am gonna cover this!
Did it!
Ce film est vraiment réussi et cette musique envoûtante de John Barry l 'est tout autant. Superbe alchimie.
GREAT FILM AND SONG
JOHN BARRY NEVER DIE... ALWAYS I HEAR HIS MUSIC... GENIAL
John Barry.......Essential.....
Kathleen Turner played the most ruthless woman in movie history in Body Heat. How she didn't get at least an Oscar nomination is a crime. Evil to the core.
excellent score!!!!!!!
Heck of a theme song and movie.
Such a beautiful film, the lighting is everything, and Kathleen Turner was ufff sexyy
Já assisti esse filme inúmeras vezes. Trilha sonora, intérpretes, enredo, tudo nele é fascinante