Acknowledging the sound FX team

[Wilycub]

@litefoot

I’d never heard of Lucky Luke but after listening to it I couldn’t get it out of my head. Damn thing!

I had a comic book of Lucky Luke! :biggrin

[litefoot]

I only had Asterix and Tintin books from the continent… no idea why Lucky Luke never crossed my path.

[Mark_M]

@litefoot

http://shukilevy.com/themes-and-scores/

That’s all his theme tunes. Be warned, it’s a long list and you could be listening to them all for hours!

Awesome link. Some real surprised there I didn’t know he did the theme music for. I honestly don’t think I could pick a favourite from his work as he has done so many good themes.

[Wilycub]

@litefoot

I only had Asterix and Tintin books from the continent… no idea why Lucky Luke never crossed my path.

I had a few of both of those comic series, but Asterix was always my favorite!

@Mark M

Awesome link. Some real surprised there I didn’t know he did the theme music for. I honestly don’t think I could pick a favourite from his work as he has done so many good themes.

My feelings exactly! I had no idea that Levy had composed the theme for “Rambo The Force of Freedom” cartoon. I should have known that as I used to watch that cartoon a lot! :biggrin

[litefoot]

@Mark M

Awesome link. Some real surprised there I didn’t know he did the theme music for. I honestly don’t think I could pick a favourite from his work as he has done so many good themes.

@Wilycub

I had a few of both of those comic series, but Asterix was always my favorite!

My feelings exactly! I had no idea that Levy had composed the theme for “Rambo The Force of Freedom” cartoon. I should have known that as I used to watch that cartoon a lot! :biggrin

Finding ALF listed there was a real surprise!

[Mark_M]

@Wilycub

I had a few of both of those comic series, but Asterix was always my favorite!

My feelings exactly! I had no idea that Levy had composed the theme for “Rambo The Force of Freedom” cartoon. I should have known that as I used to watch that cartoon a lot! :biggrin

I downloaded Rambo The Force of Freedom. I still have watch more of it, but it seems a pretty good cartoon.

@litefoot

Finding ALF listed there was a real surprise!

The one I am most surprised by is Macron 1.

[litefoot]

@Mark M

The one I am most surprised by is Macron 1.

I had to Google that. I’d never heard of it (which doesn’t mean it wasn’t shown in the UK, though - I missed lots of stuff at the time).

This theme is slightly different to the usual Levy style - the first 40 seconds sound like something from Tangerine Dream’s score to The Keep, then it becomes familiar Levy.

[Mark_M]

@litefoot

I had to Google that. I’d never heard of it (which doesn’t mean it wasn’t shown in the UK, though - I missed lots of stuff at the time).

This theme is slightly different to the usual Levy style - the first 40 seconds sound like something from Tangerine Dream’s score to The Keep, then it becomes familiar Levy.

I never seen it on TV in the UK but remeber renting a VHS of it. It was an edited and dubbed release of the Japanese anime GoShogun.

[Wilycub]

@Mark M

I downloaded Rambo The Force of Freedom. I still have watch more of it, but it seems a pretty good cartoon.

Being a huge Stallone fan, I enjoyed the cartoon immensely. It has some good episodes. The animation is pretty decent, not great. The background music (most taken from the Rambo movies) is awesome! It also has the regularly used “transformation sequence” (like the Prince Adam to He-Man one), in which Rambo ties his bandana, puts his knife in its sheath, and ties his shoelaces, inspired no doubt from a similar scene in “Rambo 2” when he is getting ready for his mission. Funny thing is that sometimes this scene is used even in places where he already is in his Rambo gear. :biggrin

Unlike other cartoons from the era, this one has a lot of gun firing and bomb explosions. No one gets killed of course, but it’s a nice change from the other cartoons like He-Man where picking up and throwing opponents was the only permissible “violence” that was allowed.

[Mark_M]

@Wilycub

Being a huge Stallone fan, I enjoyed the cartoon immensely. It has some good episodes. The animation is pretty decent, not great. The background music (most taken from the Rambo movies) is awesome! It also has the regularly used “transformation sequence” (like the Prince Adam to He-Man one), in which Rambo ties his bandana, puts his knife in its sheath, and ties his shoelaces, inspired no doubt from a similar scene in “Rambo 2” when he is getting ready for his mission. Funny thing is that sometimes this scene is used even in places where he already is in his Rambo gear. :biggrin

Unlike other cartoons from the era, this one has a lot of gun firing and bomb explosions. No one gets killed of course, but it’s a nice change from the other cartoons like He-Man where picking up and throwing opponents was the only permissible “violence” that was allowed.

You should watch some Galaxy Rangers and Robotech. They had quite a bit of violence with characters being killed. The latter especially…but then again it was an English dub of a Japanese anime.
Come to think of it even though Bravestarr was a Filmation cartoon it actually had some characters getting killed in episodes. Another show well worth watching.

[litefoot]

Mysterious CIties of Gold had a few deaths. Usually people falling from a great height.

And then there’s Transformers. In G1, enemy laserfire had barely any effect whatsoever. But come the movie, they’re dropping like flies!!!

[Mark_M]

@litefoot

Mysterious CIties of Gold had a few deaths. Usually people falling from a great height.

And then there’s Transformers. In G1, enemy laserfire had barely any effect whatsoever. But come the movie, they’re dropping like flies!!!

Not only did they die ion The Movie, so did their toys on the toy isles to make way for the toys of the newly introduced characters.

[Wilycub]

It seems that the Japanese and the Chinese felt that things like death, murder, killing, suicide, blood, gore etc. were perfectly normal even for cartoons. I remember seeing a Chinese dubbed cartoon back in the 80s in which a child princess sacrifices herself by taking a sword to her throat. Also one episode of “Battle of the Planets” featured a girl committing suicide by jumping out of a window. Of course it was revealed later that she was a cyborg, but still the visual was a tad disturbing.

I’m not really into gore and death in cartoons, but I would like at least a few blows to be traded. Is that too much to ask for! LOL! :biggrin That is why I liked the Superman, Batman and Justice League Animated series’. There was a good amount of fist-fighting in those.

[Mark_M]

@Wilycub

It seems that the Japanese and the Chinese felt that things like death, murder, killing, suicide, blood, gore etc. were perfectly normal even for cartoons. I remember seeing a Chinese dubbed cartoon back in the 80s in which a child princess sacrifices herself by taking a sword to her throat. Also one episode of “Battle of the Planets” featured a girl committing suicide by jumping out of a window. Of course it was revealed later that she was a cyborg, but still the visual was a tad disturbing.

I’m not really into gore and death in cartoons, but I would like at least a few blows to be traded. Is that too much to ask for! LOL! :biggrin That is why I liked the Superman, Batman and Justice League Animated series’. There was a good amount of fist-fighting in those.

I think the man thing with US cartoons was the FCC since a lot of those shows were primarily also working as toy advertisements. I know they are far more than that but I believe that is how the FCC and marketing executives viewed them. Japan and other countries didn’t have to follow their rules. Of course when some of those shows were imported to the US and dubbed they had to be edited. Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), Voltron (Beast King GoLion) and Robotech (Super Dimensional Fortress Macross) are really good examples of violence etc being edited out.
It’s actually surprising how much of the violence and death were left in and not edited out of the US releases of the Force Five cartoons: Spaceketeers/Sci-Bots (Starzingers), Starvengers/Formators (Getter Robo G), Grandizer (Grendizer), Gaking/Formators (Gaiking) etc.

[Daremonger]

One sound effect that debuted in the season-one ThunderCats episode “The Ghost Warrior” is pretty iconic – the glowing eye effect when Lion-O invokes sight beyond sight.

[LiamABC]

Another example is in Thunderbirds 2086, there’s a moment where a character dies, and it is clear at the end of the episode that the character is dead, but in the moment that it happens, the nurse just says, “he’s out”.