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My thoughts were this too. There's that great use of the "B" theme in Last Crusade when Indy starts to gain ground during "The Boat Escape". It seems that JW used this theme often when Indy was gaining ground, or things were turning in his favor, and maybe just because it worked well for that. Also like @ludwig said, it seems the "B" themes were most often there for the opening and end credits, the overture sections of the score where bridges were necessary, but in some cases, as in the Indy "B" theme, it also worked great for some specific instances.

This is good, life advice, I enjoyed the article, but especially this little nugget of truth.

Yeah, I love the JW references in Family guy. They seem to be done from a real fan who knows his stuff - they way the score changed when Elfman had to take over, or Indy's First Adventure - the guy sings like a full minute of the music, with the runs, and melody and everything. I imagine Seth Mcfarlin has always been a huge JW fan, has like all his soundtracks, can hum the most random theme from the most random of JW scores - he probably listens to JW as he's writing and working.

Interesting thread. Is there one for Danny Elfman? Man, I swear (especially around Christmas time) there are a few commercials with "What's This" and Edward Scissorhands scores, almost verbatim, just one note switched.

I don't know the JP score well enough to know for sure. It does sound very JW, and fits right in with the sound of JP score. I think with the Indiana Jones ride, someone arranged it, and re-recorded it, all based on themes from the original JW score. Maybe this is similar, and the orchestration is different, or with the sound effects of the ride it's hard to make out exactly which part of the original JP score it's from. Also, I'm almost sure you're aware, but by chance you're not, there was recently a re-release of almost the full JP score, coinciding with the IMAX release of the movie. From what i remember, it only had 11 minute of missing music, the rest was released, and is on itunes.

Ah, thanks, I thought I remembered seeing a thread but couldn't find it. I went to the tag 'superman', wasn't there, figured a search for Zimmer would return tons of threads, and didn't think to search for "Steel", I also looked on the "Also tagged with..." section of the other thread, and didn't see it there. Not sure what 'page 1' is, but i didn't see it on the forum home page, either way thanks!

Sorry, I searched but couldn't find another thread devoted to just the Man of Steel score (zimmer). Maybe one should be created if there's not one? But Over the weekend, I found these: 1. 90 second previews of the score: 2. New "DTS Headphones X" technology debuts with Man of Steel score: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1475529/dts-headphone-x-makes-debut-with-man-of-steel-score 3. Tech Journalist Scott Wilkonson who was at a special screening/display of the Man of Steel soundtrack with new DTS Headphones X Technology talks about the experience. starts at 32:51.I have to say I'm kind of excited about this movie and score. I generally like Zimmer, I like Nolan, and I'm interested to see how it relates (if at all) to the original JW classic. I also find this head phone technology very intriguing. If I can easily and robustly get 11.1 surround sound through the convenience of headphones, how sweet would that be.

Yeah, great little interview. So interesting to hear JW speak sometimes. While reading the article, my first thought, was what is JW going to say about hearing the score in the new film, what are his thoughts on the Zimmer score, etc. ....then JW pulls the Christopher Reeves card, and I was reminded JW is not just a gifted music, but a profound human with his priorities and humility in check. Like a wise old grandpa we all wish we had, that somehow knows everything about everything,....who happens to also be a world class composer.

Does anybody know where the interviewer is coming up with the fact that Zimmer was 'frozen for three months', when coming up with the Man of Steel score? I think this is also such an interesting topic, and I'm glad he asked the question too. I'm curious what JW will think of the new superman score.

No No, I liked it a lot! There are some great moments in there. "It's my birthday", "Cavern Chase" come to mind first as some of my favorite ques. Not to mention the great songs. I just think it would be interesting to hear what JW could have done with a classic Disney fairy tale style movie like Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, etc. doing the score and songs. Most of the movies I mentioned I thought already have great scores, (Up, Wall-e, etc.) I just think would be interesting to hear what JW would have done.

Great question! Captain America or The Avengers sounds like a lot of fun. Although that makes me think of Jerry Goldsmith, he might have also provided a great score for those (Patton, Air Force one -esque). Princess and the Frog and The Artist, those movies that have a very classic Americana feeling, wow, how wonderful those score could have been. Up, and Wall-e, Cars, or even Toy Story. Such great movies, they could only be improved with a master like JW. Tangled could have been great too, especially if he did the songs as well - that could have been very interesting. Avatar I think could have actually been a better movie with a JW score. The Batmans, and Inception really worked with Zimmer and his style, but still would be interesting to hear a JW score for them.

There was a post on JW fan page on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Williams/135079323176814 I call BS though. No source, no details. cough, cough.

Why? That's about as un-Zelda-like as it gets!Well, just the animation really - lots of movement, sword fight, the way Yoda is animated with lots of flips and spinning, and the way the light sabers (or in this case swords) hit each other. Just replace Yoda with Link, make him a little bigger, replace Dooku with Ganon, make him a little smaller, replace the scenery with a forest from Brave, and the light sabers with swords, and bam!

Ever since I read this, it's been on my mind. Maybe not Pixar exactly, but a super clean, high quality cgi movie, I think would be awesome. I'm thinking a color palette from How to Train Your Dragon, the sword fighting style of Yoda vs Count Dooku and details and scenery of Brave (or any Pixar movie really) The story could be lifted right from Ocarina of Time. Man, I would love that. I could envision the trailer already.

I was thinking more something like this although this also references JW score...i guess a JW score would work in either case.

Really? So same opening sequence, with JW score but someone else (MG perhaps) scores the rest? I don't think i would like that, it should be either one way or the other, either traditional movie, authentic JW score, or do something new, fresh, with modern polish. It will be interesting to see, what actually happens.

I think I'm split right down the center 50/50. I can't imagine seeing a star wars movie with out that opening: "a long time ago..." BAM!!! ("Star Wars" title), and JW theme literally hits you, picks you up, and takes you to "a galaxy far far away". It's chilling, it's maybe one of the most classic, powerful movie openings of all time. Could it even be a Star Wars movie without that? On the other hand, I could totally appreciate a new look and feel, maybe a little darker, a little more modern: Star Wars with new polish and with a new coat of paint. However, I might enjoy a different score type for this, maybe Elfman, or Zimmer. If it's Giacchino, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because it would probably mostly sound like a JW imitation, and I could probably safely say, I would hate that - Star Wars with a JW imitation. I guess my hope is either one or the other: a Classic Star Wars, with an authentic JW score, or a Star Wars with modern polish on it, and a different type score. Anything else, and I'll probably be pretty disappointing.

Mind if i ask which exact theater? (I know it could be anywhere), i'm just curious and doing some research to try and find which theaters get the most attendance during these re-releases - it's so fun to see it with a large group.

I know Edward Scissorhands has iso score, and sounds really good. There's also a list here: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=133653

Nice, thanks for sharing. i caught the beginning on TV last night, but missed the rest. Cool to see JW music permeate so many facets of entertainment, media and our culture in general.

Great videos! Thanks for posting! Definitely warranted a new thread in my opinion. What struck me most, was the first video: here's Spielberg who I assume can move a mile a minute when making a movie, and who's mind is racing with ideas, and bursting with creativity to get his vision out....But simply explains his ideas, and then patiently....patiently waits while JW ponders the request and looks over the score. I could probably count on one hand the times I've seen a big wig celebrity type sit and wait for something like that. You can really see the decades of friendship and comradery. Please, anyone who finds these gems on youtube or wherever, please don't hesitate to post them, make a new thread, whatever. This stuff is gold as far as I can tell.

What a treat and surprise! I just watched this on bluray the other night in prep for the 3d release (excited!!), and now a re-released soundtrack with 11 extra minutes! Awesome! Not every day we get something like this from a true JW classic. And I second what Uni said, what a shock, I wasn't expecting this at all. I think the brachiosaurus scene is one of my all time favorite scenes, and I can't wait to see (and hear!) this on the big screen again!

I once mentioned on another thread how much I loved the Dracula score (Wojciech Kilar), and someone pointed out that yes, it's a great score, but some of the action sequences are mediocre at best. Which I thought was true, and made me appreciate a master like JW even more. I think we might underestimate how hard it can be to write music that sounds exciting, and with action, but not sound cheesy, or overdone. Again, JW rises to the top of the heap. It seems that action cues can really set apart the men from the boys in terms of composers...if they can do great action cues, they must be pretty good. . As pointed out here, there are so many great action cues from JW (jurassic park and war of the world come to my mind first), but I think personally the dessert chase from Raiders, could be the top for me....amazing, classic treatment, really set the bar high for music and movie action sequences in general.

Ah, i didn't see the example link, yeah those look great! Wow, i wish they would do these for the Indy movies, i would be all over that.

Nice clip. I love seeing original Walt Disney stuff. For what he's done in entertainment, it's interesting to see him in front of the camera, he almost seems a little uncomfortable, and there aren't that many clips that I've found. Also interesting to see how quickly the recipients came and went. Thanks for sharing.