The Goonies

   One of my favorite movies is “the Goonies.” I loved this movie since I was a kid, and still watch it from time to time (Yes, I own a DVD). In summary, this movie is an adventure of a group of teenage friends that try to find pirate’s treasure in order to save their families from foreclosure. I will not go into the details of the movie here, but one of the aspects of this movie that I love is music. The main theme songs were by Cindy Lauper and they sound really 80s, and the underscore soundtrack done by Dave Grusin contains some of the most wonderful and memorable underscores ever written in my opinion.

   Anyway, I had been looking for a CD of the underscore soundtrack, but it was impossible to find it. Fortunately, recently a record label named “Varese Sarabande” released the complete original underscore CD, and I finally got it the other day. It made me very happy, and also made me rethink about what makes a piece of music (or other art like movie etc.) timeless and borderless. When it comes to the Goonies, it captured the childhood’s adventurous and curious souls that every kid has and every adult unconsciously wishes to maintain somewhere in his/her heart. Of course, the presentation of the movie is lower than today’s standard with CG and high-resolution audio. However, ultimately those things are not the deciding factors of the quality of the work. 

   I am living in the 21st century, so as a creator, I need to create a work to fit into today’s society, but the survivability of the work is decided by how much the work reaches to the core part of us which doesn’t change over time. I believe that we have been and will value love, friendship, wisdom, effort, beauty and etc, though society and technology changes over time. At least, as long as I can believe that, I can involve in creative work.