The music tenses as they encounter the Shaman. Wet sounding drums are heard as Indy finds himself floating down a river in the middle of the Indian jungle. As the raft’s speed decreases, so does the music. And if you think this is a roller coaster ride, wait to you hear the mine car chase. Unfortunately, all is not well, as Jones and company soon find themselves falling off a plane onto the snow capped peaks of the Himalayas on an inflatable raft! The music descends until the raft hits the peak, where the music turns into an exciting and incredibly fast paced roller coaster ride off the cliff of the mountain, and straight down a cliff into a white water stream. As the trio boards the plane, Jones’ theme is heard in all its glory. It uses oriental styled music, but with a novel touch to make Shorty sound very witty and clever. Short Round’s theme is introduced during the fun and chase that ensues. As Willy and Indy escape Lao and his henchmen, they fall into the hands of Short Round. The orchestra goes wild when the crowd literally tramples Indy and his new ally, Willy Scott, who are trying to obtain the diamond and the antidote. Very fun! The music following that scene is tense, as Jones tries to get the antidote from Lao.
“Anything Goes” is a nice song, but it can get annoying, like most songs on Williams’ soundtracks (with the exception of “Exsultate Justi” from Empire of The Sun.) Still, it is great to hear the maestro put an enthusiastic spin on this well known work.
It accompanies the opening scene in the restaurant where Indy and Lao Che make their little trade. “Anything Goes,” a song whose lyrics are mostly in Cantonese, was written by the legendary Cole Porter. The first track on the soundtrack, now almost impossible to obtain in the US, is not written by Williams. Sure it has its dark moments, but you can’t help yourself from chuckling every once in a while. For the Temple of Doom, John Williams composes a very witty and surprisingly upbeat score. Williams’ music follows Indy on his journey through his ordeal, and like always, the good guy wins.
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As the middle movie in the trilogy, the Temple of Doom is also the bleakest, but Indy still manages to get stuck in some pretty humorous situations. Often said to be the worst in the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Temple of Doom takes Indy and company away from the standard Nazi artifact chase to the sweltering jungles of India and into a subterranean madhouse of horror and death.
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