The reason why this movie is still very good after so many years is because (almost) everything you see in the movie is real. Some of the actors got really hurt and they had to be careful that nobody got hit by a motorcycle.
One of the most underated sci-fi/ action films of the 70s. I was thinking the other day how the film Gladiator kind of follows a similar characted arc of the lone warrior, superior to any before him, keeps being fed into impossible odds by the powerful senate ( Corporate ) and yet overcomes. I really wish they hadn't F***ked up the leagcy with that horrible remake they did years ago.
32ft stops, wow. Not too many of those in world. Of course these days, people's typical playback system is earbuds, laptop speakers, some crap named beatz or PC speakers. None of them are going to do justice to 32ft stops :)
True. I use Sony Prof MDR-7506 phones, and they aren't built just for rattling bass. I like good bass, but the sound needs to be even across the spectrum to be enjoyable.
Watched the clips last week and it reminded me it was a great movie so I managed to get it in cex last week and watched it three times. It's original, Innovative, ground breaking, classy, outstanding story, great actors and the best choice of music. You can't beat the classics
Ah-ha,so that's where Devo got the idea for their corporate anthem song. Thanks for placing this up,you've definitely got me interested in getting this particular film.
The entire soundtrack is fantastic, as well. Andre Previn truly brought the entirety of his talents to the task of composing the jazzy synthesizer pieces, & arranging/conducting the orchestral music for this incomparable film. The final track (excerpt from Shostakovich's 5th Symphony) is simply masterful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Yes I agree. Remember in the era this movie was released, this type of juxtaposition of sport and "horror" - which looks fairly tame now that we are desensitized to it, was considered groundbreaking. The use of the organ was supposed to connect the viewer with vintage scary movies, setting the stage for this shockingly brutal sport. And worse (and supposed to be more scary than the game), the absolute control the corporations exerted over every facet of people's lives.
I've surfed the web a bit and can't find out what it really is despite that Daily Kos and it's agenda stupidly falsely claims it's Bach's BWV 565 Toccata in d minor (that it of course invincibly ignorantly wrongly calls the popular "Toccata and Fugue" error, refuted by the Schmieder BWV catalog), a ludicrous fallacy even a beginning music student knows is in error.
+Russ Davis Good question. You seem to have better access to that sort of info than I do. I imagine he was tasked to create these during production, they're probably inside an organ seat somewhere along with a ton of other valuable musings.
What was I thinking (not). I was stupidly forgetting Preston's world class stature as one of the greatest organists for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful.
+Russ Davis First it's "neat", now it's "stupid". This is far from "a stupid little ditty". I happen to think Mr. Preston is pretty amazing. His performances of other organ pieces are really great, too.
+Joel Owens (온조엘) You failed to read/consider my whole piece: "I was stupidly forgetting Preston's WORLD CLASS stature as one of the GREATEST ORGANISTS for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful." You absurdly took my piece calling Preston one of the greatest organists as a negative! Of course COMPARED TO his countless inestimably great and huge OTHER musical accomplishments this little 90 second blurb for a sci-fi flick is a "stupid little ditty," though it's still neat and listen to it frequently (after cutting off the announcer and the applause and converting it to an mp3. How can anyone deny the comparison?!
ideniseb: Corporations stealing? Only the corporations that are in kahoots w/the government. "Crony capitalism". Just like everything else, capitalism is imperfect. But it's the best thing going.
I used to imitate John Hausseman in that Smith-Barney commercial to my best friend when I moved to Long Island, and you should know that I'm the man responsible for the Islanders winning 4 stanley cups in a row. Hey, they never won until I moved there!
The original Rollerball movie inspires me to make a scene in my book for DC comics where Kamandi and the Legends are placed in an arena to fight to the death against a team from an Earth not located on the Multiverse map. Strange coincidence the team is lead by the Sportsmaster.
This song always gives me chills.
This is quite pretty. Somebody can get away with it for a bridal procession!
zambimaru if we are not careful we will be hearing a corporate anthem and even gladiator type stuff
The melody and structure is similar to German national anthem. Check it out if you have a time.
The reason why this movie is still very good after so many years is because (almost) everything you see in the movie is real. Some of the actors got really hurt and they had to be careful that nobody got hit by a motorcycle.
I have the soundtrack on audio cassette. After all these years I still don't know why any of the corporate anthems are not on the soundtrack.
I agree.
They should have been as both are good pieces a long with classic music in the movie .
Tried to contact Simon Preston the organist but when I did, was told he was in a care home, and has since passed away. 😞😞😞
@@ashb7782 great organist in England
One of the most underated sci-fi/ action films of the 70s. I was thinking the other day how the film Gladiator kind of follows a similar characted arc of the lone warrior, superior to any before him, keeps being fed into impossible odds by the powerful senate ( Corporate ) and yet overcomes. I really wish they hadn't F***ked up the leagcy with that horrible remake they did years ago.
The organ is at Royal Albert Hall in UK. If that were me playing it, I would have drawn every single 32 ft stop on the last two measures.
32ft stops, wow. Not too many of those in world. Of course these days, people's typical playback system is earbuds, laptop speakers, some crap named beatz or PC speakers. None of them are going to do justice to 32ft stops :)
True. I use Sony Prof MDR-7506 phones, and they aren't built just for rattling bass. I like good bass, but the sound needs to be even across the spectrum to be enjoyable.
Watched the clips last week and it reminded me it was a great movie so I managed to get it in cex last week and watched it three times. It's original, Innovative, ground breaking, classy, outstanding story, great actors and the best choice of music. You can't beat the classics
Ah-ha,so that's where Devo got the idea for their corporate anthem song. Thanks for placing this up,you've definitely got me interested in getting this particular film.
Yep, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 got the Idea of the End Credits theme from Devo, and I hear some parallels with this and MST3K Credits!
Excellent !! nice job !! My favorite part of the movie was this anthem. You nailed it !!
The entire soundtrack is fantastic, as well. Andre Previn truly brought the entirety of his talents to the task of composing the jazzy synthesizer pieces, & arranging/conducting the orchestral music for this incomparable film. The final track (excerpt from Shostakovich's 5th Symphony) is simply masterful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I found it on LP years back at a thrift store, basically played maybe a couple times. In near mint condition.
Love this song.... gives me chills. takes me back to my childhood when I saw this I was only 9.
Awesome song !!!! Love the film, especially the music throughout the film.
I wish we could hear the Japan one, that one was awesome
Yes I wish I had the sheet music for the Tokyo Corporate Anthem - that was a terrific composition
It's on RUclips 👍👍
Excellent editing! Well done!
Welcome to your world, 2021.
A totally underrated film. Those who concentrate on the games miss the point
You are oh so right. This film shows the viewer a taste of the future that MIGHT be avoided.
Best sound track ever!
This is actually a good song!
I kinda think that the Empire's Anthem at Sporting Events in Star Wars would sound something this!
Yes I agree. Remember in the era this movie was released, this type of juxtaposition of sport and "horror" - which looks fairly tame now that we are desensitized to it, was considered groundbreaking. The use of the organ was supposed to connect the viewer with vintage scary movies, setting the stage for this shockingly brutal sport. And worse (and supposed to be more scary than the game), the absolute control the corporations exerted over every facet of people's lives.
"Play ball" !
Kind of sounds similar to the Holy Roman Empire anthem
A moment of silence for Jonathan E.
Any chance he'll do the Tokyo (Luxury Corporation) Corporate Hymn?
I thought about it, but it kind of sucked. Maybe I'll go back and get it later.
Here is the Tokyo anthem: ruclips.net/video/uwf6tudmzJs/видео.html
Does anyone know the actual title of this neat little ditty wonderful Simon Preston carries out with his usual delightful, stellar aplomb?
I've surfed the web a bit and can't find out what it really is despite that Daily Kos and it's agenda stupidly falsely claims it's Bach's BWV 565 Toccata in d minor (that it of course invincibly ignorantly wrongly calls the popular "Toccata and Fugue" error, refuted by the Schmieder BWV catalog), a ludicrous fallacy even a beginning music student knows is in error.
+Russ Davis Good question. You seem to have better access to that sort of info than I do. I imagine he was tasked to create these during production, they're probably inside an organ seat somewhere along with a ton of other valuable musings.
What was I thinking (not). I was stupidly forgetting Preston's world class stature as one of the greatest organists for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful.
+Russ Davis First it's "neat", now it's "stupid". This is far from "a stupid little ditty". I happen to think Mr. Preston is pretty amazing. His performances of other organ pieces are really great, too.
+Joel Owens (온조엘)
You failed to read/consider my whole piece:
"I was stupidly forgetting Preston's WORLD CLASS stature as one of the GREATEST ORGANISTS for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful."
You absurdly took my piece calling Preston one of the greatest organists as a negative! Of course COMPARED TO his countless inestimably great and huge OTHER musical accomplishments this little 90 second blurb for a sci-fi flick is a "stupid little ditty," though it's still neat and listen to it frequently (after cutting off the announcer and the applause and converting it to an mp3. How can anyone deny the comparison?!
At our corporation we make money the old fashioned way....we STEAL it!
This movie was way ahead of its time!
ideniseb: Corporations stealing? Only the corporations that are in kahoots w/the government. "Crony capitalism". Just like everything else, capitalism is imperfect. But it's the best thing going.
I used to imitate John Hausseman in that Smith-Barney commercial to my best friend when I moved to Long Island, and you should know that I'm the man responsible for the Islanders winning 4 stanley cups in a row. Hey, they never won until I moved there!
Simon Preston. 🎹 RIP.
We need the game now!
There was a game for Commodore 64 called Rocketball. 40 years ago 😮 had it.. played it.. and played it.....
This may be coming soon.
The original Rollerball movie inspires me to make a scene in my book for DC comics where Kamandi and the Legends are placed in an arena to fight to the death against a team from an Earth not located on the Multiverse map. Strange coincidence the team is lead by the Sportsmaster.
Epic !
This looks like our future. 😕🙄
Great music.....
jonathan, jonathan, jonathan, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN!!!
Reminds me a bit of the Olympic Hymn.
RIP James Caan.
worker's ANTH£M / $ ?
Prescient
"Play Ball!"
Those uniforms do not provide much protection, LOL.
Andre Previn wrote the anthem...
Actually, this is the National Anthem of Lower Slobbovia: "When in Slobbovia, do as the Slobs do."
I wouldn't know. I'll have to defer to your expertise in that area.