This song is perfect for the ending. The feeling of dread and complete failure. They had the guy in the palm of their hands and somehow the plan fell apart. You're left there thinking what went and how.
The ending minute of this film totally reshapes everything you’ve experienced up to that point and really puts in perspective just how gritty of a filmmaker Friedkin really is.
If you were told to create a piece of music that describes the sensation of one's flesh crawling, this would be it. One of my all time favorite pieces of music
The ending in this amazing,might be one of the 1st movies where the bad guy got away and the music fits it perfectly,has that 70s tint of uncertainty, fear and hopelessness
This ending theme just reeks of hopelessness and ambiguity... Really makes you believe that that is how the film ended and you have to draw your own conclusions as to what happened... (Even if French Connection 2 exists)... I kinda wish that they wouldn't have made #2, because the whole ending to this movie is brilliant and creepy as fuck.
I like to think of two ways this ended if French Connection 2 wasn’t canon; 1) the shot in the dark is him shooting at shadows because he’s so paranoid that Frog 1 got away or 2) Popeye actually shoots Frog 1 in cold blood after finding him hiding, and the end card of Alan Charnier not being found is due to the fact Popeye and Russo disposing of the body. Leading to Russo changing his name to Martin Brody and transferring to Amity away from New York, but thats my own head canon that connects to another film 😉
The music represents the disillusionment of a generation that thought they possessed the answers. Popeye never gets frog1. That shot in to the dark missed. The clever allegory is what put it over the top. Its William Friedkin's masterpiece.
I just had to reply. Your comment seems so eerily true with this piece of music. The revolutionists and counterculture hippie kids of the 60s thought they were paving way for a happy good time world. However, when the 70s came around, they realized it hadn't done anything except probably make everything worse. What a chilling feeling that must've been
I truly love love this music, Am 35 now, was 14 when my father said, sit down boy, watch this, I love it!! I love all thr old classics because of my father. lol, now have memory of an old man ,,, LOL.
It's a really grim piece of music. It's like the end of the world and there's no way you can survive..... You are counting down the minutes til the end
A victorious-less ending but fits the mindset of the 70s era Plus it fits with Doyle’s psychosis only fixated on finding the drug lord 50 years later and this music still helps the movie get across the rage and frustration Doyle feels
Ghoulish and eerie..... gives me goosebumps all over. Fantastic music, never heard anything like it... It´s spring now but I´m planning for the next halloween party already!
and this theme runs neck and neck with the theme from the exorcist very similar tone and what gives me goosebumps is what was yet to come for william friendlkin after this with this disbursing them and terrifying theme we were in store for the scariest movie of all time two years later came THE EXORCIST
To me, this particular theme transcended Det. Doyle's conscience on the entire investigation in one single moment. And that would be, not bagging "Frog One." Frog One was Charnier. The main target he was after. He just shut down the biggest heroin deal in NYC history, at that point in time and made good on both he and Det. Russo's investigation. Yet, he just killed an FBI Agent by accident and the target escaped. The music probably depicted how he felt deep down. A masterpiece by Don Ellis =)
.......you are being chased by a murderer They are relentless They are so close to you Everytime you think you have lost them , they turn up right on your tail .......This is the piece of music that you hear in those minutes before the end 😪
One of the most affecting musical scores in film. Agree with Baltimore hop, it directly puts you inside the mind of Popeye. It also foists you firmly into a cold gray day in the early 70's in some backass part of Red Hook, or Bayonne, whichever dark, desolate place Friedkin chose to shot the final scene.
Paul Allen All those once functional but now derelict buildings look like somewhere time forgot. The end theme matched the haunting emptiness of this abandoned place, PERFECTLY! That was back in the early 70’s; I wonder what that area looks like now?
Man, seeing this when I was a kid, with the mysterious music when the message comes up that they never found the the guy, and me realizing this was based on a true story; blew me away.
A spooky, ethereal, melancholy reprise of the "copstail" theme - which was meant to represent Doyle's obsessive pursuit of the case. In the finished film, the themes written to represent individual characters like Sal, Doyle and Frog One weren't used as planned, and the character/theme relationships weren't established.
I like to think of Charnier having gotten away for good. Smirking, eating cheese and drinking wine, thinking about the inferiority of Americans, especially that peasant Doyle who thought he was a match for French excellence.
This just reeks of dark things going on dank back streets where the sunlight never reaches. Does anyone know where I can find more of this style of trumpet playing? I mean really slow, or without a beat at all, and with a dark tone?
Don's Ellis' timeless score was perfect for this early '70's classic, but wouldn't it also work just as well in a contemporary urban setting with paranormal trappings (ie: 'Personal Shopper') ? Or is it just that I've succumbed to the gravitational pull of Halloween?
New release of both French Connection scores + Brad Fiedel's for the TV pilot coming from La La Land records on Tuesday 29th November------limited edition
THE FRENCH CONNECTION COLLECTION: LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET) LLLCD 1408 Music by Don Ellis and Brad Fiedel Limited Edition of 2000 Units RETAIL PRICE: $24.98 La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox and Fox Music proudly present THE FRENCH CONNECTION COLLECTION, a 2-CD SET featuring re-mastered re-issues of renowned composer Don Ellis’ (THE SEVEN-UPS) iconic motion picture scores to the Oscar-winning THE FRENCH CONNECTION, starring Gene Hackman and directed by William Friedkin and THE FRENCH CONNECTION II, also starring Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer, as well as the world premiere of composer Brad Fiedel’s (THE TERMINATOR, TRUE LIES) original score to the 1986 TV pilot POPEYE DOYLE, starring Ed O’Neil. Long out of print, Don Ellis’ indelible and idiosyncratic jazz scores to the FRENCH CONNECTION feature films return on Disc One of this deluxe presentation, sounding better than ever. Disc Two showcases Brad Fidel’s expert soundscape for POPEYE DOYLE, along with additional bonus tracks, including alternate cues from all three projects, as well as the song “Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon,” featured in the original film’s bar scene. Produced by Nick Redman and Mike Matessino, mixed by Matessino, and mastered by Daniel Hersch, this special limited edition release of 2000 units features exclusive liner notes by writer Julie Kirgo and street-smart art design by Jim Titus. TRACK LISTING: DISC 1 1 THE FRENCH CONNECTION Main Title :59 2 Just Looking :17 3 Charnier :52 4 Copstail 4:03 5 The Old Fort 1:19 6 Sal 1:25 7 Joel 1:04 8 The Car 1:05 9 Doyle’s Blues :57 10 Waltz 1:01 11 Hotel Chase 5:28 12 What The?! / Umbrella 3:25 13 Subway :23 14 The Shot 1:12 15 This Is It / Here We Go / Stay With It 3:26 16 Lincoln’s Blues 2:05 17 Strip 1:45 18 Found :36 19 Au Revoir 1:16 20 Surprise / The Last Round Up 1:18 21 Frog in Room :50 22 End Titles 2:43 23 FRENCH CONNECTION II Main Title / Waterfront 3:34 24 Boat Ride 1:21 25 Popeye 1:39 26 Popeye’s Montage 2:04 27 Volleyball 1:37 28 Hit 1:21 29 Heroin 4:24 30 OD 2:15 31 Pain 1:06 32 Rehabilitation 2:04 33 Revenge 1:16 34 Boat Bottom / Dry Dock 3:07 35 Stalking 4:14 36 Continuation / Here Come the Cops 1:53 37 The Big Chase 2:33 38 Exhaustion 2:24 39 End Title 1:32 Total Time Disc 1 (76:52) DISC 2 1 POPEYE DOYLE Main Title 4:01 2 First Chase 4:11 3 Body Dump :42 4 Jill’s Apartment :47 5 Video One :34 6 Gut Feeling :32 7 Following the Barkeep 1:50 8 Video Two 1:08 9 Follow the Weasel :07 10 Weasel Volunteers :33 11 Weasel Makes Parisi 1:33 12 Video Three 1:36 13 Cat and Mouse 2:42 14 Hat in the Ring :18 15 Motorcade 2:06 16 Shadow Rises :21 17 Tackle the Shadow :28 18 Reel 7 Act Out :13 19 Weasel’s Weapons :28 20 Weasel to Popeye’s 2:39 21 Reel 8 Act Out :24 22 Evil Afoot :13 23 Embassy Murder 1:04 24 Hospital Heavy 3:17 25 Final Shootout 4:09 26 Aftermath :50 27 End Credits 1:12 ADDITIONAL MUSIC THE FRENCH CONNECTION 28 Hotel Chase (alternate) 5:28 29 The Source 3:31 30 Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon 3:28 FRENCH CONNECTION II 31 Hit (alternate) 1:22 32 Exhaustion (alternate) 2:24 33 Sores 3:16 34 Blues 2:33 35 Cops 3:52 36 Drugs 4:30 POPEYE DOYLE 37 First Chase (alternate) 3:54 38 Prove My Love to You 2:09 Total Time Disc 2 (75:37) www.lalalandrecords.com/
great film but its not on my top 3 favorite films from friedkin; reason why is that the first act felt a bit slow and i didnt really get it, but i really enjoyed the climax.
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The feeling of hopelessness and failure at the end of this movie basically represents America’s War on Drugs.
It absolutely does. We thought we could conquer the abyss through law and the abyss has in fact consumed us because we stared at it for so long
This song is perfect for the ending. The feeling of dread and complete failure. They had the guy in the palm of their hands and somehow the plan fell apart. You're left there thinking what went and how.
The ending minute of this film totally reshapes everything you’ve experienced up to that point and really puts in perspective just how gritty of a filmmaker Friedkin really is.
Friedkin is a great Director
If you were told to create a piece of music that describes the sensation of one's flesh crawling, this would be it. One of my all time favorite pieces of music
It's good however creepy
Very fitting finale music with that added creepy moan sound. It's absolutely effective.
Such eerie music to such a sad ending
Popeye is so obsessed heading into this final showdown that he kills one of his own and continues into the darkness. Brilliant, heavy dark ending.
@Lawrence Rodriguez He wasn't a Fed Dickhead, They worked out of the same Precinct
I think that was deliberate. It's clear that the real Popeye Doyle didn't like who that asshole was based on.
I first saw this movie when I was in 4th grade, I remember trying to go to bed that night and being unable to stop thinking about this... Fantastic
The ending in this amazing,might be one of the 1st movies where the bad guy got away and the music fits it perfectly,has that 70s tint of uncertainty, fear and hopelessness
This ending theme just reeks of hopelessness and ambiguity... Really makes you believe that that is how the film ended and you have to draw your own conclusions as to what happened... (Even if French Connection 2 exists)... I kinda wish that they wouldn't have made #2, because the whole ending to this movie is brilliant and creepy as fuck.
That end title is great. Really dark and atmospheric.......
I like to think of two ways this ended if French Connection 2 wasn’t canon; 1) the shot in the dark is him shooting at shadows because he’s so paranoid that Frog 1 got away or 2) Popeye actually shoots Frog 1 in cold blood after finding him hiding, and the end card of Alan Charnier not being found is due to the fact Popeye and Russo disposing of the body.
Leading to Russo changing his name to Martin Brody and transferring to Amity away from New York, but thats my own head canon that connects to another film 😉
The music represents the disillusionment of a generation that thought they possessed the answers. Popeye never gets frog1. That shot in to the dark missed. The clever allegory is what put it over the top. Its William Friedkin's masterpiece.
I just had to reply. Your comment seems so eerily true with this piece of music. The revolutionists and counterculture hippie kids of the 60s thought they were paving way for a happy good time world. However, when the 70s came around, they realized it hadn't done anything except probably make everything worse. What a chilling feeling that must've been
@@jondaniels4325 Exactly...
Hold my beer: Popeye hunts down and kills the frog in French Connection II
Or it could just represent the lack of resolution
That shitty generation didn't do anything but make things worse.
I truly love love this music, Am 35 now, was 14 when my father said, sit down boy, watch this, I love it!! I love all thr old classics because of my father. lol, now have memory of an old man ,,, LOL.
This music made me scared, the other guy was never found, its like he could appear outside my window. luckily he wasn't a mass murderer.
he was a drug lord close enough they kill people to
He was nice. :)
Damn you Frog 1
It's a really grim piece of music. It's like the end of the world and there's no way you can survive..... You are counting down the minutes til the end
The song is so scary and screams out that evil won and we didn’t catch them.
A victorious-less ending but fits the mindset of the 70s era
Plus it fits with Doyle’s psychosis only fixated on finding the drug lord
50 years later and this music still helps the movie get across the rage and frustration Doyle feels
Fits this goddamn era even more.
Ghoulish and eerie..... gives me goosebumps all over. Fantastic music, never heard anything like it...
It´s spring now but I´m planning for the next halloween party already!
An absolutely classic soundtrack. Should have won the Oscar.
You're not Wrong!!!
The ending of this film hits like no other
This is a classic masterpiece.
One of the greatest soundtracks. Don Ellis creates an incredible soundscape.
and this theme runs neck and neck with the theme from the exorcist very similar tone and what gives me goosebumps is what was yet to come for william friendlkin after this with this disbursing them and terrifying theme we were in store for the scariest movie of all time two years later came THE EXORCIST
This music is like trying to escape from a serial killer and you know there is no way youl ever escape alive...... Its scary but extremely effective x
Don't get hung up on context - if you played this looped in a haunted house the patrons would shit themselves.
To me, this particular theme transcended Det. Doyle's conscience on the entire investigation in one single moment. And that would be, not bagging "Frog One." Frog One was Charnier. The main target he was after. He just shut down the biggest heroin deal in NYC history, at that point in time and made good on both he and Det. Russo's investigation. Yet, he just killed an FBI Agent by accident and the target escaped. The music probably depicted how he felt deep down. A masterpiece by Don Ellis =)
This theme fits the old NY perfectly, thanks for letting us hear it on CZcams!
.......you are being chased by a murderer They are relentless They are so close to you Everytime you think you have lost them , they turn up right on your tail .......This is the piece of music that you hear in those minutes before the end 😪
This music sounds like demons wailing in the air and some horrible monster snoring in the distance! Really terrifying music!!!
One of the most affecting musical scores in film. Agree with Baltimore hop, it directly puts you inside the mind of Popeye. It also foists you firmly into a cold gray day in the early 70's in some backass part of Red Hook, or Bayonne, whichever dark, desolate place Friedkin chose to shot the final scene.
Know this is 5 years later. But it was Ward's Island.
Paul Allen
All those once functional but now derelict buildings look like somewhere time forgot. The end theme matched the haunting emptiness of this abandoned place, PERFECTLY!
That was back in the early 70’s; I wonder what that area looks like now?
This music paved rhe way for the Exorcist, a tunnel of never ending dread.
I hear this after almost every Chicago Bears game.
lol
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The ending is very chilling
Man, seeing this when I was a kid, with the mysterious music when the message comes up that they never found the the guy, and me realizing this was based on a true story; blew me away.
A spooky, ethereal, melancholy reprise of the "copstail" theme - which was meant to represent Doyle's obsessive pursuit of the case. In the finished film, the themes written to represent individual characters like Sal, Doyle and Frog One weren't used as planned, and the character/theme relationships weren't established.
Final éblouissant. Un must dans le genre !
This is just amazing
I like to think of Charnier having gotten away for good. Smirking, eating cheese and drinking wine, thinking about the inferiority of Americans, especially that peasant Doyle who thought he was a match for French excellence.
This just reeks of dark things going on dank back streets where the sunlight never reaches. Does anyone know where I can find more of this style of trumpet playing? I mean really slow, or without a beat at all, and with a dark tone?
*****
Thanks for that.
What was the answer? Where find music like this?
@@ceasr I hate it when CZcams comments disappear.
Masterpiece.
Very scary music. Like a zombie moaning
Last clip gives us some deeper insight into Popeye Doyle`s soul. Only a wolf catches a wolf. And he is an obsessed one. In a dark but in a good way.
such a beautiful and appropriate gutpunch for the finale. elevates
Thanks for uploading it!
...and Charnier found a door of the northen pillar of the Hell Gate Bridge : it was opened then he disappeared...
Used in the end credits for Amazon's "Homecoming" show!
It's terrifying
no existe ningúna película con música final mejor que esta
I supposed this film is about many things but it's certainly about one man's decent into obsession .
Genialidad
Class ending theme scary
This theme makes me wanna learn to play the trumpet.
sinister
He may have lost Charnier but he got his deadliest hitman so at least people are safe
Don's Ellis' timeless score was perfect for this early '70's classic, but wouldn't it also work just as well in a contemporary urban setting with paranormal trappings (ie: 'Personal Shopper') ? Or is it just that I've succumbed to the gravitational pull of Halloween?
Music by the great Don Ellis
This needed to be sampled by some 90s hip-hop group. Wonder if it ever was...
New release of both French Connection scores + Brad Fiedel's for the TV pilot coming from La La Land records on Tuesday 29th November------limited edition
THE FRENCH CONNECTION COLLECTION: LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET) LLLCD 1408
Music by Don Ellis and Brad Fiedel
Limited Edition of 2000 Units
RETAIL PRICE: $24.98
La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox and Fox Music proudly present THE FRENCH CONNECTION COLLECTION, a 2-CD SET featuring re-mastered re-issues of renowned composer Don Ellis’ (THE SEVEN-UPS) iconic motion picture scores to the Oscar-winning THE FRENCH CONNECTION, starring Gene Hackman and directed by William Friedkin and THE FRENCH CONNECTION II, also starring Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer, as well as the world premiere of composer Brad Fiedel’s (THE TERMINATOR, TRUE LIES) original score to the 1986 TV pilot POPEYE DOYLE, starring Ed O’Neil. Long out of print, Don Ellis’ indelible and idiosyncratic jazz scores to the FRENCH CONNECTION feature films return on Disc One of this deluxe presentation, sounding better than ever. Disc Two showcases Brad Fidel’s expert soundscape for POPEYE DOYLE, along with additional bonus tracks, including alternate cues from all three projects, as well as the song “Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon,” featured in the original film’s bar scene. Produced by Nick Redman and Mike Matessino, mixed by Matessino, and mastered by Daniel Hersch, this special limited edition release of 2000 units features exclusive liner notes by writer Julie Kirgo and street-smart art design by Jim Titus.
TRACK LISTING:
DISC 1
1 THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Main Title :59
2 Just Looking :17
3 Charnier :52
4 Copstail 4:03
5 The Old Fort 1:19
6 Sal 1:25
7 Joel 1:04
8 The Car 1:05
9 Doyle’s Blues :57
10 Waltz 1:01
11 Hotel Chase 5:28
12 What The?! / Umbrella 3:25
13 Subway :23
14 The Shot 1:12
15 This Is It / Here We Go / Stay With It 3:26
16 Lincoln’s Blues 2:05
17 Strip 1:45
18 Found :36
19 Au Revoir 1:16
20 Surprise / The Last Round Up 1:18
21 Frog in Room :50
22 End Titles 2:43
23 FRENCH CONNECTION II
Main Title / Waterfront 3:34
24 Boat Ride 1:21
25 Popeye 1:39
26 Popeye’s Montage 2:04
27 Volleyball 1:37
28 Hit 1:21
29 Heroin 4:24
30 OD 2:15
31 Pain 1:06
32 Rehabilitation 2:04
33 Revenge 1:16
34 Boat Bottom / Dry Dock 3:07
35 Stalking 4:14
36 Continuation / Here Come the Cops 1:53
37 The Big Chase 2:33
38 Exhaustion 2:24
39 End Title 1:32
Total Time Disc 1 (76:52)
DISC 2
1 POPEYE DOYLE
Main Title 4:01
2 First Chase 4:11
3 Body Dump :42
4 Jill’s Apartment :47
5 Video One :34
6 Gut Feeling :32
7 Following the Barkeep 1:50
8 Video Two 1:08
9 Follow the Weasel :07
10 Weasel Volunteers :33
11 Weasel Makes Parisi 1:33
12 Video Three 1:36
13 Cat and Mouse 2:42
14 Hat in the Ring :18
15 Motorcade 2:06
16 Shadow Rises :21
17 Tackle the Shadow :28
18 Reel 7 Act Out :13
19 Weasel’s Weapons :28
20 Weasel to Popeye’s 2:39
21 Reel 8 Act Out :24
22 Evil Afoot :13
23 Embassy Murder 1:04
24 Hospital Heavy 3:17
25 Final Shootout 4:09
26 Aftermath :50
27 End Credits 1:12
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
28 Hotel Chase (alternate) 5:28
29 The Source 3:31
30 Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon 3:28
FRENCH CONNECTION II
31 Hit (alternate) 1:22
32 Exhaustion (alternate) 2:24
33 Sores 3:16
34 Blues 2:33
35 Cops 3:52
36 Drugs 4:30
POPEYE DOYLE
37 First Chase (alternate) 3:54
38 Prove My Love to You 2:09
Total Time Disc 2 (75:37)
www.lalalandrecords.com/
FUCK YEAH.
Gene Hackman one of the best actors in the world
I have tunnel vision that James Wan would glady approve this to conjuring 3 lmfaoo
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Is it the original sample of ESG - UFO?
You shot Mulderig
After watch Infinity War be like...
" BLAST OFF . 180 "
" STOP THAT MAN. HE'S WANTED BY THE POLICE. "
Creepy theme
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Would be great on a horror movie soundtrack.
You picking your feet in Pougkeepsie?
what an ending u thought popeye doyle had him in the end it was the one that got away well he got him in french connection 2 but damn so close
Anxiety made music track.
great film but its not on my top 3 favorite films from friedkin; reason why is that the first act felt a bit slow and i didnt really get it, but i really enjoyed the climax.
REAL.
I am here because of Homecoming.
Trying to trace the name of the track, in the night club, when popeye first clocks Sal & Angie, any clues?
Sandstorm by Darude
Charnier displays some skill in evading Doyle. Makes you wonder what his past is. French resistance, collaborator? Probably playing both sides.
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