THE BELL JAR 1979 GERALD FRIED

The Bell Jar (1979)
Unreleased music in Flac, no artwork.
30 tracks, 49:58 minutes.
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All thanks for the Gerald Fried and Paul Sawtell material go to my anonymous source and their number one fan.

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And another cover joins the rest here (Thread 90457) if interested.

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Just watched the movie on Youtube. Director Larry Peerce seems to have viewed this as a showcase for the acting talents of his then-wife Marilyn Hassett. She plays a Sylvia Plath-like character who desperately wants to be a poet but instead spends most of the movie slowly unravelling. The problem is we never really understand why she’s having a breakdown, and consequently we don’t really care. (Apparently the film veers a long way from the novel).

Gerald Fried’s score was largely unused in the finished film, which is a shame because his music might have added some internal tension to the scenes where our heroine becomes unglued. I spent some time making educated guesses about the placement of the unused cues, theorising that they best fitted those moments of mental turmoil. I could, of course, be wildly off target, but I suspect no one is going to sit through the movie to test my theories 🙂

01. Main Title
02. Poet Of The Year (unused)
03. House Source
04. Almost Love Scene (unused)
05. Morbid Questions (unused)
06. Memories Of Daddy (unused)
07. A True Neurotic
08. Party Source 1 (In The Cool Of The Evening)
09. Party Source 2 (Mona Lisa)
10. Party Source 3
11. Party Source 4
12. Fashion Show Source
13. Pressure At Work (unused)
14. I Want To Be A Poet (unused)
15. Career Crisis
16. Dinner Source 1
17. Dinner Source 2
18. Dinner Source 3
19. Dinner Source 4
20. Breakdown (unused)
21. Shock Treatment
22. Daddy’s Grave
23. Lipstick On Mirror (unused)
24. Last Letter (unused)
25. Suicide Attempt
26. Dying Is An Art (unused)
27. Ivy League Loony Bin (unused)
28. Joan’s Revelation (unused)
29. A Friend Dies
30. End Titles (unused)

…but I suspect no one is going to sit through the movie to test my theories.

DING! DING! DING! I think we have a winner folks. 😉

Thanks for this. I’m a huge Sylvia Plath fan, but haven’t seen this film.

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This one really caught me by surprise. Absolutely terrific score! Thank you so much.

Wow! I had no idea Fried did this. Thanks!

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Thanks! This is presumably an intimate kind of score.

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