00:00It's like having your own James Bond theme.
00:02It's a crowd-pleaser.
00:03It's visceral, it's sensory.
00:05I've never heard anything like it.
00:06One of the most famous soundtracks of all time.
00:08Sexy as f***.
00:09One of those reasons I got into filmmaking.
00:19They'll play that s*** at my funeral one day.
00:30Today we're here doing the scoring session for Beverly Hills Cop Axl F.
00:34I love the original score of Beverly Hills Cop.
00:36It's my first film to have someone like Lorne be able to create a vision together for the film.
00:41It was really amazing.
00:44Right from the beginning, Mark had a clear idea about we wanted to be faithful to the past.
00:49But slightly reinvent it.
00:51So that the audience felt connected to it.
00:54We went right back to the origins by getting the same instruments that were playing it.
00:59The same sounds.
01:00We found a museum that specializes with collecting all these old synths.
01:04Freshening them up so that they're usable.
01:06And we kind of did a session today that they used to do maybe 30 years ago.
01:11Where they had the players in the room with the orchestra.
01:14So that the musicians are all kind of working together.
01:18We have the Rise Diversity Orchestra here too.
01:22I mean I grew up with Beverly Hills Cop.
01:23Axl Foley.
01:24This is really exciting.
01:25But the professionals and the students.
01:27I watched the movie when I was in Brazil.
01:29The song is very famous.
01:32And everybody knows this song.
01:34This room right now is very diverse in terms of what you typically see here on the scoring stage.
01:40Which is really exciting.
01:41I think it brings a lot of hope.
01:42And I think it really opens up the opportunity to a lot of these students.
01:46Okay, same place again.
01:48Two bars in.
01:58I think the Axl F theme is not just iconic.
02:01It connects to us because so many people learned how to play it on the piano.
02:05We're going to do a duet.
02:06You see Mark's going to play the first note.
02:08What can I do?
02:09All you do is the C.
02:15That's one of the first things I remember learning to play on piano.
02:18I remember my older brother showing me how to pluck it out on the keys.
02:23Now I'm showing my son how to play the Axl F.
02:25Now I'm showing my son how to play the Axl F theme on the piano.
02:28He's got it really good by the way.
02:30Okay.
02:31From the same spot.
02:32From one.
02:37I think the music has turned out amazing.
02:39What I love about what Mark has done is he's beautifully laced that Axl F theme through the movie.
02:47The Axl F theme has been reinvented so many times.
02:50It's getting into all these single generations.
02:53People are kind of being very aware of.
02:55It's something that reminds you of your childhood.
03:05If I'm honest, watching Beverly Hills Cop reminds me of being young and like hanging out and watching TV on the weekends with my brother.
03:11It's funny how art is that way.
03:13It comes to mean things that the artists never would have thought of or intended.
03:17I am very proud of myself for being a part of this in some small way.
03:21It was right from the beginning.
03:23Axl F theme and Axl phone.
03:25The perfect combination.
03:27That's why it resonates still and it works.
03:30Hearing Axl F in the room today, I got really emotional.
03:33I've never really heard it like that before.
03:35To hear it in this space played by so many people.
03:37It was amazing.
03:51We're going to close after every shoot.
03:53We're here all day. Well done.
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