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Cerebral Cortex

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  1. i'm sorry, the chadwick boseman mention is sweet but them speaking wakandan is fucking cringe
  2. imagine if harrison ford was the one in the bear costume
  3. it's nice hearing cocaine jokes at an oscars show again
  4. They saw him peeling out in the parking lot to go home after the monologue and they decided not to give it to him. "At 91, sitting through a 3.5 hour SNL awards sketch is a big ask."
  5. Maybe we're the problem? Williams hasn't won in a post-JWFan world. Maybe we're jinxing him?
  6. Williams winning best score for Indy 5 then, I can feel it.
  7. harrison ford just crashed a plane on the stage, holy fuck
  8. imagine if harrison ford and rihanna were presenting together lol
  9. tom cruise just landed a plane on the stage, holy fuck
  10. woah, it's the co-composer of top gun maverick, lady gaga!
  11. i really hope williams wins because without this win nobody is gonna know he is a good composer and he will likely be forgotten.
  12. I feel in retrospect the Disney ST almost served as an exercise for Williams to get back into blockbuster mode. I personally feel like the action music got better in each entry. Imagine him now getting to do another big blockbuster but with a film that might actually inspire him creatively and with a character he cares about.
  13. Not sure if this has been shared anywhere yet. Variety: For ‘Indiana Jones 5,‘ John Williams Scored ’An Hour and a Half of Music, Maybe More’ Some great other bits in there too about various things. Edit: Thanks for making this its own thread, Jay. I'm always scared to pull the trigger on those things.
  14. Good God, what? Williams is at the top of his game at 91, what the heck. This is incredible. I can't believe a massive film blockbuster in 2023 is gonna have writing like that. Nobody does shit like that anymore. Also, he looks so great in that pic! I swear that photo could have been 20 years ago. Somebody tweeted Mangold a few months back about having Helena's theme released digitally as a single. Wonder if the ASM track might be something that gets released a few weeks before the film's release to build up hype? Never appreciated the colors of Anakin's theme that are in there:
  15. i want to create one of those tv spots for quantumania where it does all the review pull-quotes in the background hyping it up but it's all the bad things critics are saying about the movie
  16. Upon rewatching the Flash trailer, it's such a weird creative choice to play the theme for Ben Affleck's Batman from Justice League for Michael Keaton's Batman. Wish they had done something different for the character. /s
  17. "Indiana Jones 5 and the Path to Accepting Excitement (OST)" / Sequel Score Shaming In Honor of Valentine's Day 2023 (February 14th, 2023) A pretentious, inane, and possibly unintentionally ageist thesis drenched in a lust for Internet clout. Written by Cerebral Cortex Edited by Tim Allen (who was Sued by Pamela Anderson) Dedicated to BloodBoal Even with the first trailer out, for some reason this movie still felt very surreal and I don't think my mind really accepted it as a thing that was actually happening. So I'd see things for it and my mind just on the most passive level interpreted what it saw and reacted to it, entirely bypassing the part of the thought process where in order for my brain to make that connection it must also accept that this film is also a real thing. With this TV spot, there's something that has clicked in my brain and this now feels like a very real movie that is coming out in just a few months. Perhaps just by seeing it with more familiar music, it gave a legitimacy to it that I previously didn't associate with those images. But now that I've finally broken through that psychic threshold, I realize now there is a new one I'm not even sure how to process: the fact John Williams, at 91, is scoring another Indiana Jones movie. And with that realization comes, to me and numerous other members, a feeling of immense excitement. Which brings me to the meat of this post. I leave it to the members to judge my sin. I've seen a lot of discourse over the last few years where members on here would get shit on for getting more excited over a Star Wars Episode 24 sequel score than whatever new Williams prestige score was right around the corner. And for a long time I sat there anonymously on the receiving end being unable to succinctly "understand why I looked forward to these Williams blockbuster sequel scores more than a new Williams score for a very insufferable and boring Oscar bait movie" (Cerebral Cortex, 2023). But I so desperately wanted to understand: (A) why do I feel the strong need to justify this opinion and (B) why do I feel this way in the first place emotionally regarding being excited for new Star Wars from Williams versus new anything else. But with the release of this movie, I finally think I get it. Perhaps it was always obvious, but I only just now realized that the preference in which upcoming Williams score JWFans allowed themselves to be excited by was probably a very largely generational difference. I say that in the kindest words with the intended meaning being that most likely a lot of the people who were excited about those new Star Wars scores saw them not just as blockbuster scores but as emotional extensions to pieces of music that had made a very impressionable mark on people who were younger when those films first came out. It would be exceedingly interesting to be able to plot member age against total excitement of members who were excited about the Star Wars sequel scores more than other new Williams scores. If you could, I bet you would see a lot of peaks of excitement plotted around people who as kids grew up in the late 90s and the late 70s than those who grew up in the mid-80s, mid-60s, mid-2000s, mid-2020s (ah yes, the coveted toddler film score demographic!). That is to say that those who were young enough to find themselves impressed upon by those earlier Williams works were probably more excited about the upcoming sequels to those works they were fond of than members who grew up without that experience. So in the coming week, you might find yourself feeling shameful or disgusted with yourself. You may see opinions shared on this forum regarding this score that cast shade your way or make you feel inadequate in your musical tastes for being excited by it or enjoying it. You may wake up and look in the mirror to find that you don't like the man you see: someone who, when compared to Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, is getting much more excited about this upcoming James Mangold's "The Fabled Man" (phrase copyright © Cerebral Cortex 2023). But getting more excited about new Williams music to a big dumb blockbuster movie isn't wrong. Because, if you're on this forum, there's a very good chance that in the end, it was never even really about the movie; it was about the music. And that's when the surrealness starts to set in for people who grew up able to be impacted by the power of these films. That feeling of love you have for that cherished child thing can't possibly be something one is able to experience now. Because right now you're in your late-20s and the world isn't the same as when all you had to worry about was when the school bus left and there's no way that that thing you loved so fondly back when you were a child and everything was warm and safe can exist now in this life of uncertainty and fear and cold. Because back then was a forever ago. And the person who made that thing you loved can't be the same person who is making this new thing to that thing you loved. But it is. It's the same fucking guy. And he might be older now (well, we're not quite sure if he is actually aging) but you're definitely older, and your life has complexities you never even considered, worries you never even thought about growing up. "Will my parents get Alzheimer's?" "Will I get Alzheimer's?" "Why is that mole changing color?" "Should I have gotten that 1-year warranty on the toaster?" "Will I get Alzheimer's?" But somehow that same man is here. To show you that that feeling you have for the things you loved is still inside you. To show you that being around to take on the worries of life is worth it if it means you get to experience things like these to get excited over, regardless of how big or how small that thing is. That just because you feel like you're stuck feeling a certain way doesn't mean you lost those other feelings. And that you can still love things you loved when you were little as a grown adult. Because it's always okay to be excited about something you love. So this Valentines' Day, if you find yourself as a fellow JWFanner feeling bad about being excited for Indy 5, don't. You're doing it for love. And that's always a good reason to do something.* *-following a bunch of legally-binding stipulations But anyways, yeah, I think that's why this upcoming score feels so surreal to me lol. And you're welcome for the reminder that Valentine's Day is tomorrow. I just saved your ass! EDIT: holy shit i'm high as fuck lol
  18. Honestly, I wish Danny Elfman had scored Flash more than Multiverse of Madness (but not more than No Way Home instead of MoM). It'd be really interesting seeing him be put into the position where he A) has to presumably expand upon a fairly minor theme he rushedly wrote for a character who is now the central hero of a new movie, B) expand upon the musical soundscape he established in Justice League while C) trying to figure out how to rectify it with previous musical material he wrote for another character in a different style. What sensibilities he would use to approach those challenges, whether it was using a soundscape that merged the two--Batman '89/Returns '92/Flash ‘90?-- against JL, something that largely grounded itself in the nostalgic superhero sound of old, or something that saw him updating his older themes to conform to the newer vision, would be so interesting to know.
  19. Amazing the difference is between playing something resembling the real deal versus a cheap imitation. Actually got goosebumps from this.
  20. "91-year old man refuses to wear mask" "#CancelWilliams" "#WilliamsIsAnAntiVaxxer" /s
  21. Damn, I thought that part got included in my embed. That was the whole reason I posted it lol
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