Brian Tyler Takeover: Partition

 We get a historical fiction for the first time this challenge! 

Partition is a 2007 movie about the time when India was divided between by religious views. Muslims and secular India were separated. When the partition happened, thousands of Muslims fled to the news boarders of the perspective counties in order to flee from persecution. Gian, a former soldier who only wants peace and is dealing with his own guilt, finds a woman, Naseem, hiding after refugee she was traveling with where attacked, and killed. Instead of attacking, like she expected, Gian takes her back to his home to protect her from those that would want to kill her. While in his car, Gian, with the help of friends, start looking to see if her family survived and where they might be living. This information takes years to find, and during that time Gian and Naseem fall in love, much to the chagrin of the other people in the village. They soon marry, and get word that her family is alive, and makes the trip to visit them. The only problem is, once they find out who she married, her family will not let her go. Gian now must try to reunite him family that most people don't think should exists in the first place. 

I have never heard of this movie before, and I am very glad that I watched it. I love historical fiction because I get to learn about things I never knew about while also following well written characters of the period. 

This is the movie Brian Tyler becomes Brian Tyler. there was so much of this film that made me think of his work in Thor: The Dark World. This is the movie that make me realized that Mr. Tyler has a wonderful talent to write music for characters in the situations, not just the place or situation as a whole. There was some feel of what music from India would include, but also his use of strings in this film made my heart ache along with the characters. This is start what I already know Brian Tyler to be 

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift

 No this movie comes with an unexpected movie watching challenge. So, Brian Tyler has done several of the Fast and Furious movies in the franchise. Since I will be watching a good deal of them for this challenge, I figured that I need to know what the heck is actually happening, so I decided that I will be watching all of the movie in the franchise this year. Now, for the sake of my own sanity, I will not be writing around all of the movies, just the one that Mr. Tyler has composed for. So, let's talk about this first one he composed for, from 2006, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.

 Sean is a high schooler who is always getting in trouble, and has finally come to the end of the line with his mom. He cause a catastrophic amount of damage while street racing, and now his is being shipped off to his Military Father while he is serving in Tokyo. There is learns about drift racing and gets himself into more trouble then he thought possible. Now he has a massive amount to debt to clear, along with keeping the peace with his peers. 

Now, I will say that the first Fast movie I have ever seen was Fast X. I watched it like a dozen times in the theater because I hated my apartment and it was the only movie worth going to in order to escape where I was living. I also found the movie really fun, and and great popcorn movie. Since I did like it so much, and finding out Brian Tyle did the music, made me want to watch the rest of the films. So, I like that I have an excuse to do so. 

Now, I have to say, that after watching the other two, I have no idea what happening. Like we had two movies that seemed to follow one person, and plot, to have everything just be thrown out the window, and the only thing connecting the three movies is Vin Diesel's camo at the end of the film. However, since I have seen the tenth movie, I know Han is alive, and somehow part of Dom's crew at some point. Which makes less sense cause Han is a high school teenager, so how in the world did he roll with Dom back in the day? So, I hope I get some real answers and not just a "drink the cool-aid and shut up" situation. 

Mr. Tyler's music is starting to shine! This is the first time that I feel like he composed for characters in situations and not just "this is how you compose an action scene". Since I know what coming for the music in the Tenth movie, I can't wait to see if there any any connections of music with the characters as the movies go on. 

Brian Tyler Takeover: Annapolis

 So, I thought we were onto some good movies, and 2006's Annapolis was not what I was thinking it was going to be. 

James Franco stars at Jake Huard, a young man whose goal is to join the military academy. When he does get the chance of a lifetime to join, he is excited but finds that it's not fully what he expected. 

Now, this is not the worst movie, but name was it lost in it's own lessons. It's the usual troupe of "someone who doesn't belong here defies the odd and proves everyone wrong" but with one big "oops". The "oops" is that the start of the movie they make a big deal that Huard is good a boxing, and that how he likes to solve conflicts for the most part. It's like two thirds of the way through the movie before they introduce the fact that there is a huge boxing competition at the end of the year. It's a mess of movie to be honest.

Mr. Tyler music also got caught up in a little lack of creativity in this movie, and I don't think it's his fault. The problem with military movies is that there is ALWAYS a lot of military style marching snares in the music. This is no exception, however, there wasn't nearly as much snare drum as most military movie provide. So, I was thankful that he did not fall fully into the troupe. Hopefully, the next movie we can not be pigeon holed into a troupe.  

Brian Tyler Takeover: the Greatest Game Ever Played

 Finally! Finally, a movie the delivers the start of what Brian Tyler's music can do, and it's actually a good movie! From 2005, The Greatest Game Ever Played.

Shia LeBeouf stars at Francis Ouimet in this Disney Biopic. Francis grew up loving golf, but was never really allowed to play, since only gentleman that are part of the golf club can really play. He did caddie for most of these gentleman since he lives across the street from The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. However, during the 1913 US Open, the club decides to let an amateur enter the competition. Francis is given the chance to enter, and become the first amateur to win the US Open. 

This movie has all of the earmark of a classis Disney biopic The only real critique I have for the film is there are some very weird editing choices that were made that, had they not been allowed to happen, would have made it a near perfect film. The story was interesting and tense enough to keep you attention but also not so heavy with the drama that makes you eyes roll. For someone who is not interested in golf, I think that the tension felt in this movie is how a golf game should be reflected to those who do enjoy golf. 

Mr. Tyler is finally here! I still can't tell you why I feel a connection with this man's compositions, but this is the first time I feel like I have really heard a Brian Tyler score since we have started. There have been plenty of bits a pieces of him here and there, but this is the first time I felt like he arrived! I'm very much excited for what is next!

Brian Tyler Takeover: Paparazzi

 We are back to a terrible movie from 2004, Paparazzi.

I'm not going to spend much time here. New big time actor gets mad at the paparazzi for taking his picture. The paparazzi are mob like and start like chasing the actor and causes a wreck that nearly kills his wife and kid. The actor goes on a killing spree of the revenge against the men.

Look this movie was so bad that I barley paid attention to it. I doubt the if this was Mr. Tyler's best work (thank goodness its not) it would have improved anything. 

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Final Cut

 This movie from 2004 is one that shocked me that I haven't heard or seen before, and it has Robin Williams in it! The Final Cut. 

The future is here in this movie! Robin Williams is what is known as a "cutter" for people who have an implanted memory storage in their head. All visual and audio of their lives are recorded. The purpose is to be able to reflect at the end of the persons life and cutter is the one who watches their lives and put together the best part of the lives. This is done and shown to friends and family at the 'Remembery". When a big wig at the corporation that makes the implants dies, everyone wants to get their hands on the unedited version of his life so the true plots of these devices are implanted. Williams character takes great pride in being the best cutter of the business, until he finds out that his parents had an implant installed into him at birth. Now, not only does he carry all the memories of his own life, but of all those whose lives he has reviewed. Which makes him the biggest target. 

Now, I can totally understand why this movie is a little under the radar, but really it's closer to what the world is coming to than a lot of other movies out there. 

Brian Tyler's composition for this film was subtle but, I think it was more over shadowed by the movie.