Flicks in Five: The Lion in Winter
by Lynne Warfel
August 11, 2012
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Still of Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole and Jane Merrow in The Lion in Winter (Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.)
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Movie scores provide a huge portion of the story telling. A movie without music will never fly with an audience. When a film composer augments a score with a full orchestra and chorus, things get really interesting. John Barry wrote a choral score for The Lion in Winter that sets the stage for intrigue and the appropriate Plantagenet style backstabbing.
