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citizenscreen · 9 days

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Henry Mancini was born 100 years ago today 🎵 🎼 #botd

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theoutcastrogue · 4 months

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What's your favorite sneaking around music (e.g., Pink Panther theme, Mission: Impossible theme)?

Great question!

I'd say Mission: Impossible is not sneaking around music, it's heist music, and mmmaybe taking itself a bit too seriously. Too much competence implied for my tastes, too much action and epicness, and way too much (and fully underserved, since this is some Cold War bullshit) self-righteousness. A great and iconic theme, just not for our purposes.

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Meanwhile, The Pink Panther Theme is 100% trickster music. I don't think there's even been another melody that captures so perfectly the concept of sneaking, but who's doing the sneaking? A trickster, for sure! So the music is all sleight, playful and light-footed and irreverent, and at no point is it remotely tempted to take itself seriously. And if you hear it and expect the graceful and precise balancing act of the most elegant jewel thief in the world to be immediately followed by a fucking piano falling on the hapless Inspector Clouseau's head like some Looney Tunes shit, well the theme did its job, because that's what it's supposed to evoke. 10/10, insurpassable.

I've always said that Henry Mancini was a genius (also notable for the Peter Gunn theme and Victor/Victoria). That said, Lalo Schifrin is also brilliant (he scored Cook Hand Luke! and Bullitt! and Enter the Dragon!), so yay for both of them.

Finally, I think we should give an honourable mention to The Pirates of Penzance where WITH CAT-LIKE TREAD UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL *keeps singing at the top of her lungs*

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With cat-like tread upon our prey we steal In silence dread our cautious way we feel No sound at all, we never speak a word A fly's foot-fall would be distinctly heard

So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps

Come friends who plough the sea Truce to navigation, take another station Let's vary piracy with a little burglary

Here's your crowbar and your centre bit Your life preserver, you may want to hit Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize Take your file and your skeletonic keys

With cat-like tread upon our prey we steal In silence dread our cautious way we feel No sound at all, we never speak a word A fly's foot-fall would be distinctly heard

Come friends who plough the sea Truce to navigation, take another station Let's vary piracy with a little burglary

WITH CAT-LIKE TREAD UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL IN SILENCE DREAD OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL

COME FRIENDS WHO PLOUGH THE SEA TRUCE TO NAVIGATION, TAKE ANOTHER STATION LET'S VARY PIRACY WITH A LITTLE BURGLARY

WITH CAT-LIKE TREAD UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL IN SILENCE DREAD OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL

#The Pink Panther #Mission: Impossible #Henry Mancini #Lalo Schifrin #The Pirates of Penzance #Gilbert and Sullivan #correspondence #prison ballads #heist #stealth #rogues in fiction #The Pink Panther Theme #With Cat-Like Tread #trs #trickster

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verypersonalscreencaps · 2 years

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MUSIC & DANCE IN FILM › 2 / ∞

VICTOR, VICTORIA (1982, dir. Blake Edwards) Julie Andrews - Le Jazz Hot Julie Andrews & Robert Preston - You & Me Julie Andrews - The Shady Dame From Seville Lesley Ann Warren - Chicago, Illinois Julie Andrews - Crazy World

#victor victoria #julie andrews #music and dance #henry mancini #lesley ann warren #robert preston #my80s #80scostume #gifs:mine #favorite movies

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animatejournal · 5 months

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Son of the Pink Panther Director: Blake Edwards | USA, 1993

#Pink Panther #Blake Edwards #Acapella #Animation #Title Sequence #Son of the Pink Panther #Henry Mancini #Kroyer Films #Roberto Benigni

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thethirdman8 · 11 days

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#henry mancini #love theme #romeo and juliet #but soft what light #beautiful arrangement

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page-28 · 2 months

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Record shopping in Japan is next level. I didn’t want to buy a lot. I’m not a big collector and haven’t DJ’d for a lifetime. But still, cute things like this made it fun…

#audrey hepburn #cary grant #charade #henry mancini

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doppleganger-rental · 9 days

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It’s the 100th birthday of the late great Henry Mancini today.

When I was a kid, my parents had this record and I played it often. The Pink Panther theme, Moon River and (my fav) Experiment in Terror were just a few of his many credits.

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cineolho · 7 months

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LIFEFORCE (1985)