Moonraker and Close Encounters of 3rd kind.

nit...@ecs.umass.edu

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Aug 8, 1990, 4:51:08 PM8/8/90

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Here is a query for you movie buffs.
In 'Moonraker' Bond types in a codeword to enter the lab.
That music is the same as the beginning of the famous musical encounter
in 'Close encounters of the 3rd kind'. Which one came first and are they
really similar?

Bruce Cotsonas

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Aug 9, 1990, 12:45:07 PM8/9/90

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The music in Moonraker was a self-conscious and humorous musical reference
to "Close Encounters".

Bruce Cotsonas

David B. Knight

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Aug 9, 1990, 7:26:06 PM8/9/90

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Yes, the music is definitely supposed to be the famous five note theme
from Close encounters, which was released one or two years earlier. I
believe Moonraker came out in 79, and Close Encounters was released in 76
or 77.

Dave Knight
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Ralph P Carpenter

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Aug 9, 1990, 9:47:48 PM8/9/90

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In article <10432.2...@ecs.umass.edu> nit...@ecs.umass.edu writes:

>In 'Moonraker' Bond types in a codeword to enter the lab.
>That music is the same as the beginning of the famous musical encounter
>in 'Close encounters of the 3rd kind'.

>Which one came first

CE3K. The Bond incident was a tip o' the hat.

>are they really similar?

You answered your own question: "the same". :-)

VLSI

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Aug 10, 1990, 12:04:03 PM8/10/90

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In article <26C1F1...@deneva.sdd.trw.com> dkn...@elm.sdd.trw.com (David B. Knight) writes:
>>Which one came first and are they really similar?
>Yes, the music is definitely supposed to be the famous five note theme

I always thought that that was intentional - that it was part of the
humor of the flick.

Jon M. Pearsall

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Aug 10, 1990, 3:50:08 PM8/10/90

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>In 'Moonraker' Bond types in a codeword to enter the lab.
>That music is the same as the beginning of the famous musical encounter
>in 'Close encounters of the 3rd kind'.
>
>Which one came first

Close Encounters came first. But not that much earlier. That's why
they used the sound. It was a joke.
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Cisco's Buddy

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Aug 10, 1990, 10:04:29 PM8/10/90

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In article <10432.2...@ecs.umass.edu>, nit...@ecs.umass.edu writes...

} In 'Moonraker' Bond types in a codeword to enter the lab. That music
} is the same as the beginning of the famous musical encounter in 'Close

} encounters of the 3rd kind'. Which one came first and are they really
} similar?

CE3K came first by two years. The five tone pattern used in MOONRAKER was
identical to the one from CE3K. This is what's known as a "tip of the hat".
Earlier in the film, they used music from THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.

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Michael Henning

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Aug 12, 1990, 9:09:06 PM8/12/90

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ni...@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jon M. Pearsall) writes:

>>In 'Moonraker' Bond types in a codeword to enter the lab.
>>That music is the same as the beginning of the famous musical encounter
>>in 'Close encounters of the 3rd kind'.
>>

There is also a scene where Bond and others ride across some wide plain.
The music to this is the same music that is used in Marlboro ads
(initially from a Western movie called "The glorious seven" or similar).

Michi.

LIBR...@ryerson.ca

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Aug 17, 1990, 2:51:17 PM8/17/90

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Not the " glorious seven", THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN...

wogg...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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Sep 23, 1990, 1:42:00 AM9/23/90

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The hunting horn (at Draxx's estate) plays the first few notes of the 2001
theme also.

Bill Gulstad