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This has to be better than the Mel Gibson remake. (Details at top of thread)

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10/17/2009 9:58:58 AM

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Mungo9000 : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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With Mel Gibson`s Edge of Darkness remake generating internet buzz, it`s time to revisit the source.

The original 1985 movie is regarded as the finest TV series ever produced by the BBC. Extremely dark and moody, the story follows Bob Peck after the murder of his daughter. Peck`s character discovers that his daughter was involved in a break-in at a low-level nuclear reprocessing plant. Everyone who broke in are dead or missing. Peck begins to investigate what was really going on, but as this plant was more than it seemed his investigation touches the realms of national and even international security. Soon, the various intelligence agents and agencies start coming out of the woodwork but all only have pieces of the puzzle. Peck allows himself to be played by the spymasters, doing the investigation and dirty work for them in order to uncover the truth of his daughters death.

The series is astonishing in its acting, story, nail biting suspense and especially the haunting music.

The score was composed by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton who would later score the Lethal Weapon movies together.

Coupled with Peck`s acting, Clapton nailed the character musically, able to convey a shattered man on the verge of a breakdown who is only held together for the purpose of uncovering the truth to honor his daughters memory.
(Not forgetting the kick-ass themes for the machine-gun battles in the nuclear bunkers.)

Throughout the film, the music manages to squeeze intellectual subtleties into the story that are staggering in their scope.
When Peck finally discovers the Hot Cell, a heavily irradiated cavern and the site of a deadly radiation accident Kamen`s score squeezes in a few bars of Walton`s "Belshazzar`s Feast." - If you know the music, the spoken words at that point are "Thy sons shall be made eunuchs in the palace of the King of Babylon. By the waters of Babylon, we sat down, yea we wept"
At that point we feel the true depths of the conspiracy and the unlimited despotism of the nuclear industry.
This is really heady stuff for a TV series.

Music of this quality had never been produced for television before or since.
It was performed live by Clapton regularly but this recording was special. Performed by the London Philharmonic it is conducted by Kamen and was performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991.

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