Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was a Gre… Read Full Bio ↴Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was a Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), and Starship Troopers (1997). Poledouris won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his work on the four-part miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989, and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled by the choir's sound. At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after graduation from Garden Grove High School, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both filmmaking and music. Several short films to which he contributed are still kept in the university's archives. At USC, Poledouris met movie directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with whom he would later collaborate as a music composer. He appeared as a background extra in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. In 1985, Poledouris wrote the music for Paul Verhoeven's Flesh & Blood, establishing a durable collaboration.
Poledouris became renowned for his powerfully epic style of orchestral composition and his intricate thematic designs. He scored the soundtrack for The Blue Lagoon (1980; dir: Kleiser); Conan the Barbarian (1982; dir: Milius); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Red Dawn (1984; dir: Milius), Iron Eagle (1986); RoboCop (1987; dir: Verhoeven); The Hunt for Red October (1990); Quigley Down Under (1990 Simon Wincer); Free Willy (1993) and its first sequel Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Starship Troopers (1997; dir: Verhoeven); and For Love of the Game (1999).
Poledouris' studio, "Blowtorch Flats", was located in Venice, California, and was a professional mixing facility specializing in film and media production.
Poledouris married his wife Bobbie in 1969; they had two daughters, Zoë and Alexis. His elder daughter, Zoë Poledouris, is an actress and film composer, who occasionally collaborated with her father in composing film soundtracks.
In 1996, Poledouris, alongside James Horner, composed "The Tradition of the Games" for the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony that accompanied the memorable dance tribute to the athletes and goddesses of victory of the ancient Greek Olympics using silhouette imagery.
Poledouris spent the last four years of his life residing on Vashon Island, in Washington State. He died on November 8, 2006, in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, from cancer.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled by the choir's sound. At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after graduation from Garden Grove High School, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both filmmaking and music. Several short films to which he contributed are still kept in the university's archives. At USC, Poledouris met movie directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with whom he would later collaborate as a music composer. He appeared as a background extra in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. In 1985, Poledouris wrote the music for Paul Verhoeven's Flesh & Blood, establishing a durable collaboration.
Poledouris became renowned for his powerfully epic style of orchestral composition and his intricate thematic designs. He scored the soundtrack for The Blue Lagoon (1980; dir: Kleiser); Conan the Barbarian (1982; dir: Milius); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Red Dawn (1984; dir: Milius), Iron Eagle (1986); RoboCop (1987; dir: Verhoeven); The Hunt for Red October (1990); Quigley Down Under (1990 Simon Wincer); Free Willy (1993) and its first sequel Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Starship Troopers (1997; dir: Verhoeven); and For Love of the Game (1999).
Poledouris' studio, "Blowtorch Flats", was located in Venice, California, and was a professional mixing facility specializing in film and media production.
Poledouris married his wife Bobbie in 1969; they had two daughters, Zoë and Alexis. His elder daughter, Zoë Poledouris, is an actress and film composer, who occasionally collaborated with her father in composing film soundtracks.
In 1996, Poledouris, alongside James Horner, composed "The Tradition of the Games" for the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony that accompanied the memorable dance tribute to the athletes and goddesses of victory of the ancient Greek Olympics using silhouette imagery.
Poledouris spent the last four years of his life residing on Vashon Island, in Washington State. He died on November 8, 2006, in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, from cancer.
Keep on Smilin'
Basil Poledouris Lyrics
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Anvil of Crom Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the ris…
Down Under Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head ful…
Hymn to Red October Cold, hard, empty. Light that has left me, How could I know…
Hymn to Red October (Main Title) HYMN TO RED OCTOBER Words and Music by Basil Poledouris Russ…
Lassie: Main Title Cold, hard, empty. Light that has left me, How could I know…
Main Titles Cold, hard, empty. Light that has left me, How could I know…
Red Dawn Main Title Cold, hard, empty. Light that has left me, How could I know…
Red Dawn/ Main Title Cold, hard, empty. Light that has left me, How could I know…
Riddle of Steel / Riders of Doom Enses, enses requirimus, requirimus saevos nos. Swords, we s…
Strike it Up Strike it up, strike it up, strike it up Strike it…
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@kidsinyourbasement67
@issam guiti the internet was not for consumers in mid-1990s and it was really really bad
and i googled it 3 times and checked if it was true 2 times but idk
1. The earliest versions of wifi were implemented in the mid-1990s, but it wasn't until Apple included the technology in the iBook laptop in 1999, as well as other models in the early 2000s, that it really started to kick off. Broadband speeds are generally faster than dial-up.
2. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990. Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities emerged in several American cities by late 1989 and 1990. The NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.
edit2: sorry my keyboard freaked out when i tried to use copy and paste
@brickstar56
The latency between the brain dying and the face on the screen screaming in agony really captures the era of technology this was filmed in.
@The-Shapefan36049
Sometimes you can't complete a movie with an awesome battle damage.
@petermuniz9296
In the 90s, we didn’t have flatscreen TV. This movie did. And yea cgi was trash but it done well
@Ifalvarado
It definitely was next gen wifi
@ArcadeFan77
Theoretically, the computer should crash right away without any such effects (disconnected brain).
@petermuniz9296
@@arcadefan6772 RoboCop movies are based on the future so he had Wi-Fi
@julesickdrums
I like how Cain opens to the pincers cart from his chest and is like "gimme gimme gimme gimme." Like a real addict.
@pbxn-3rdx-85percent
I saw it too. It's a bit funny, a thing made of tons of hard metal needing toxic liquid chemicals so bad it can't control it's claws. Now that's sci-fi.
@labelledamedumanor4876
He was a real addict prior to the transformation, remember?
@sliat1981
Look up bender vs robocop. He uses Benders quotes from Futurama for Cain. That’s exactly what he says