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A trio of noted Australian musicians –
Iva Davies, Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon – composed
the film’s score. They previously collaborated on "The Ghost
of Time," a piece commissioned for the Millennium celebrations
in Sydney, which came to the attention of Peter Weir. The director
was so impressed, he played the piece on the Master And Commander
set throughout production, and he asked its creators to write the
music for his movie.
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Master
And Commander is directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Weir
& John Collee, based upon the novels by Patrick O’Brian.
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Three-time Academy Award directing nominee Peter
Weir and Oscar winner Russell Crowe join forces to create an epic,
emotional adventure: Master And Commander: The Far Side of the
World. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Crowe is Patrick O’Brian’s
Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain
in the British Navy, and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen
Maturin.
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2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
A trio of noted Australian musicians – Iva
Davies, Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon – composed the
film’s score. They previously collaborated on "The Ghost
of Time," a piece commissioned for the Millennium celebrations
in Sydney, which came to the attention of Peter Weir. The director
was so impressed, he played the piece on the Master And Commander
set throughout production, and he asked its creators to write the
music for his movie.
The score interweaves "Old World" and "New World"
music, reflecting the talents and backgrounds of its composers. Iva
Davies hails from both pop and classical traditions; Richard Tognetti,
one of the world’s great violin virtuosos, taught Russell Crowe
the ins and outs of the instrument; and film/television composer Christopher
Gordon brought orchestral texture to the project.
Given the period, it comes as no surprise that the score is infused
with source music from Bach (Cello Suite) and Mozart, among
other great classical composers.
Percussion dominates portions of the score. "Drums signal the
forward movement of the ship," says Davies, "that it’s
on a mission. It brings you back into the action." The score’s
biggest surprise comes with its use of synthesizers. "Peter doesn’t
make films in the expected way," says Davies, "and for that
reason we wanted the score to be not what everyone expected. Peter
wanted some scenes to have what I call a kind of ‘futuristic’
sense" – conveying the idea that these 19th century sailors
were cutting-edge explorers.
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Master And Commander is directed by Peter
Weir from a screenplay by Weir & John Collee, based upon the novels
by Patrick O’Brian.
O’Brian’s "Aubrey/Maturin" novels, so named after
the lead characters, were declared by Richard Snow, in The New York
Times to be "the best historical novels ever written." David
Mamet, also writing in the Times, called O’Brian one of the greatest
novelists writing in the English language over the past 30 years.
As to O’Brian’s creation, Captain Jack Aubrey, the Times
later noted that Russell Crowe "seems born to play him."
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HMS Surprise, 28 guns. 197 souls. Coast of Brazil, April 1805.
"… Intercept French Privateer, Acheron … you will sink,
burn or take her a prize".
Three-time Academy Award directing nominee Peter Weir and Oscar winner
Russell Crowe join forces to create an epic, emotional adventure:
Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World. Set during
the Napoleonic Wars, Crowe is Patrick O’Brian’s Captain
"Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the
British Navy, and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin.
Their ship, the Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy.
With the HMS Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured,
Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stakes
chase across two oceans, to intercept and capture his foe. It’s
a mission that can make his reputation – or destroy Lucky Jack
and his crew.
In the course of the characters’ epic journey, the movie travels
the world – from the coast of Brazil to the storm-tossed waters
of Cape Horn, south through ice and snow, to the far side of the world,
to the remote shores of The Galapagos Islands (becoming the first
feature film ever to film there).
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1 The Far Side of the World
2 Into the Fog
3 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 K.216, 3rd movement
4 The cuckold comes out of the Amery
5 Smoke 'n' Oakum
6 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
7 Corelli: Adagio from Concerto Grosso op. 6, No. 8 in G minor
8 The Doldrums
9 J.S. Bach: Prelude From the Unaccompanied Cello Suite no. 1 in G
Major, BWV 1007
Performed by Yo-Yo Ma, cello
10 The Galapogos
11 Folk Medley
12 The Phasmid
13 The Battle
14 Boccherini: La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid no. 6, Op.
30
15 Full Circle
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Captain Jack Aubrey Russell Crowe
Dr. Stephen Maturin Paul Bettany
Coxswain Barrett Bonden Billy Boyd
1st Lt. Thomas Pullings James D’Arcy
Hollom Lee Ingleby
Joe Plaice George Innes
Mr. Hogg Mark lewis Jones
Captain Howard Chris Larkin
Mr. Higgins Richard McCabe
Mr. Allen Robert Pugh
Killick David Threlfall
Lord Blakeney Max Pirkis
2nd Lt. William Mowett Edward Woodall
Mr. Hollar Ian Mercer
Peter Calamy Max Benitz
Peter Weir Producer/Director/Screenplay
Iva Davies, Richard Tognetti, Christopher Gordon Composers
Samuel Goldwyn Jr, Duncan Henderson Producer
Alan B. Curtiss Executive Producer/First Assistant Director
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