10 Greatest Film Scores

It's weird to think that all you need to hear is the music from a movie to spark your emotion. In scary movies, it's the steady beat or the short staccato notes that trigger you to curl up and cover your eyes. It's the melancholic sounds that make you sob at the end or make the end even more satisfying than the director or actors could. It's because music makes a movie and without it, movies wouldn't be one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Way back in the Charlie Chaplin days of movies, when talking was non existent, music is what carried the story from beginning to end. Has there ever been a movie without some form of music? No.

Some movies have made their music so famous that people can recognize the song more than lines from the movie. When you think of "Titanic," sure you think "I'll never let go, Jack" or that sudden jolt of anger because Rose didn't move over on that stupid door to save a gorgeous Leonardo DiCaprio Jack Dawson to lay beside her. But you also break out to "My Heart Will Go On." When you think of "Jaws" you instantly thinking "dun dun. dun dun. dun dun dun dun." Or "Star Wars" you start humming the main theme.

Some scores are just so beautiful and great and I have rounded up the 10 that make their movie a hundred times better.


10."Latika's Theme" by AR Rahman from "Slumdog Millionaire"

 9. "Main Theme from Castaway" by Alan Silvestri

8. "Neverland (Piano Variation in Blue)" by Jan. A.P. Kaczmarek from "Finding Neverland"

7."Theme from Forrest Gump" by Alan Silvestri

6. "Theme from Jurassic Park" by John Williams

5. "Theme to Cider House Rules" by Rachel Portman

And yes Michiganders, this the the Pure Michigan theme, long before those commercials took over the TV and radio.

4. "Surface of the Sun" by John Murphy from"Sunshine"

3. "This Land" by Hans Zimmer from "The Lion King"

2. "Hymn to the Sea" by James Horner from "Titanic"

1. "Tennessee" by Hans Zimmer from "Pearl Harbor"