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  1. Glóin the Dark
    You'll be eating your own words when I demonstrate that I identified (and correctly named!) Tauriel's theme back in 1992 while listening to "Lecter Escapes".
  2. Glóin the Dark
    I hire Conrad Pope to do my rewriting so that I have more time to work on concocting extra thematic interconnections.
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    I, on a daily basis, identify connections that even Howard Shore was oblivious to.
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    I think there's a distinct similarity.
  5. Glóin the Dark
    What impertinence! I can already get the CDs out of their cases given half an hour or so to work on it. Give me a month and I'll show you who's the boss of the themes!
  6. Glóin the Dark
    Arbitrage I liked it.
  7. Glóin the Dark
    Ah, well: we can't all be lion tamers.
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    Don't think that's the case really. My friends and I watched both at the same theatre, and both times I liked the HFR and they didn't. Yeah, there have certainly been antithetical responses to the format from people attending the same screening, so differences (if any) in the theatres' set-ups can't wholly explain the fact that some people hate the look while others rave about it.
  9. Glóin the Dark
    I fear that there will be several of us here jostling for the throne. Presumably he who can best display his knowledge of the myriad motives and their interconnections and developments will be anointed...
  10. Glóin the Dark
    Jeez, those discs are obstinate, aren't they! It's as though the capacity to dislodge them is the mark of the true king of the realm.
  11. Glóin the Dark
    I guess they must! Because I am, nevertheless, extremely interested in the whole project - in many of its aspects, from the use of the score to the outcome of the high frame rate experiment. In the three times that I've watched The Desolation of Smaug so far, I don't think there's been a moment when my mind hasn't been intently engaged with it - but with a complex mixture of positive and negative reactions. I do think that there is much to admire in it.
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    True. And I don't even like the film all that much...
  13. Glóin the Dark
    Pierre Boulez: Sur incises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr0i9c21H2Q
  14. Glóin the Dark
    Went for round 3 last night. I'll probably manage a few more before the theatrical run finishes.
  15. Glóin the Dark
    There were about two shots of the Company travelling from Beorn's to Mirkwood.
  16. Glóin the Dark
    In the last couple of days, someone (I think Phillipa Boyens) has been quoted as confirming that the Thrain scene will be in the extended edition (of The Desolation of Smaug).
  17. Glóin the Dark
    Just finished the third series of the Danish political drama Borgen. Good stuff, and well worth watching. Though not a patch on The Thick of It...
  18. Glóin the Dark
    It would be interesting to overhear a private conversation between them on the matter. My vision of it has Shore in Paul Giamatti mode ("I'm not gonna drink any fuckin' merlot!").
  19. Glóin the Dark
    I hope so, if only to see all of the speculation on how the opening of TABA must be a premonition of the main theme of Silmarillion 1.
  20. Glóin the Dark
    That's not bad going. Some people have known me by this screen name for over a decade and only got the pun recently.
  21. Glóin the Dark
    After attending two different 48fps screenings yesterday and having profoundly different reactions to each of them, I'm wondering if the mixed responses to the format which people have been reporting this year and last are purely down to the nature of HFR or whether they are partly caused by differences among theatres' equipment and/or their settings.
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    Perhaps the figure has Arkenstone connotations (and I realise that the regular Arkenstone motif occurs just a few seconds earlier in the track), but if there was no deliberate evocation of the Shire melody on Shore's part then I'd say it's a real stroke of luck that one materialised there, beginning just as Gandalf says "You're going to need a burglar", and reaching its apex at the precise moment the picture cuts to Bilbo! (I hope that's not too spoilery for this thread...) I'm pretty sure I have an inclination to hear references where none were intended (like seeing faces in clouds and so on) but, in this instance, I'm going to bet on it being deliberate unless Howard Shore posts to the contrary. (Or maybe if Doug Adams does.)
  23. Glóin the Dark
    Isn't it in the first track? "The Quest for Erebor"? The MM theme never appeared in the first minute of any AUJ tracks except the song though, did it? I meant the fragment of Shiryness that appears in a more heroic-sounding form at around 1:31-1:42 in the SoundCloud preview. What makes you say it sounds like the Shire? It does sound good though. The melodic shape is essentially that of the final phrase of a full "Shire" rendition. Imagine the lyrics "We will walk in bitter rain" from "In Dreams" accompanying it. Could be a mere coincidence, of course. Not a coincidence after all, then. I really liked the way this was used.
  24. Glóin the Dark
    I don't know what to think now. I've just seen the film for the second time - in a different cinema but at the same frame rate - and it was like a completely different film. The unusual look of HFR was much less pronounced and intrusive, and the unscored sections were nowhere near as excruciating. Edited passages of music were regrettable rather than disastrous (for the most part).
  25. Glóin the Dark
    All I could think of was the ballet scene from Amadeus. "Herr Jackson, his Highness would like to see the scene with the music in."
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