The Mummy Returns 7. Enemy at the Gates . The Thomas Crown Affair 2. Pearl Harbor 3. For this film about betrayal in a crime-oriented family, Howard Shore provides a score that is a variation on his usual style.
Shore is known for scoring darkly dramatic films such as Silence of the Lambs and The Game .
He is a master of capturing a brooding, yet elegant aspect of morbid, heart-wrenching films and has therefore gained himself a sort of cult status among some film score fans. The director of The Yards , James Gray, called upon Shore to combine his usual knack for accentuating these sinister dramas with a classical twist. Gray believes heavily in the impact that music can have on every part of the filmmaking process, so he played music of a select classical genre to help stimulate the needed mood on the filming set. He wanted his drama to be inspired by early 20th Century orchestral pieces by Holst, Ravel, and Puccini, so after using that music on the set, he asked Shore to continue that inspiration. Shore succeeds in that task, to an extent.