There was a great deal about the movie that I both liked and related to, seeing that I was a very young wannabe writer at the time. One who was losing a struggle with some crippling personal issues that all but choked the life out of my creativity for decades. So it goes.
As bad as that might seem, it was very small potatoes in comparison to what one Mitchell Osgood (star-screenwriter Lou Diamond Phillips) does in Ambition. There are numerous scenes and plot twists from the film that are still etched in my memory.
One thing about the film that did not stick with me was its score. When Caldera released this limited edition soundtrack in 2019, I was stunned to see that it was Leonard Rosenman who had composed this score that I had no memory of. Which is odd, because, by this time, I would pay very close attention to the music in any and every movie or television show that I watched.
The simple fact that Rosenman's stylistic approach here was progressive, rather than harmonic, provides the answer. His themes and motifs are atonal and unnerving, but not all that attention grabbing. What Ambition needed was music that helped to create a sense of unease and anxiety, which it did. Quite well, in fact.
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