Celebrity Praise for John Williams

[Jilal 681]

Joe Kramer's story in being hired for Jack Reacher revealed Tom Cruise's love for Williams.

Oh that sounds interesting! What happened?

McQuarrie (the director) sent Cruise his 8-minute demo suite and Cruise immediately called him and said something to the effect of, "Who is this guy? Where did you find him? I haven't heard a score like this since John Williams did Born On The Fourth Of July."

Cruise in general seems to understand the importance of music. Perhaps it's his dual role as producer, but he tends to show up at the scoring sessions, and he even conducted a piece on M:i:III.

Conducting 8m5 - Mission Impossible theme:

Source: http://www.scoringsessions.com/sessions/17310/

[Jay 46,243]

Awesome pic

[Maurizio 6,913]

That was a (nice) thing made up for PR and DVD stuff.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I don't think moviegoers care about Cruise conducting at the scoring sessions.

[KK 3,313]

Conducting the famous Mission Impossible theme? That's something fun a lot of moviegoers would want to see.

[Sandor 918]

I don't think moviegoers care about Cruise conducting at the scoring sessions.

You didn't think moviegoers would care about Avatar, so yeah....

[indy4 160]

If I had a chance to conduct an orchestra, I would totally go for it. Maybe Cruise just wanted to give it a try!

[mrbellamy 8,243]

Came across this video interview with Paul Thomas Anderson. Somebody asked him about working with Jonny Greenwood and he spoke about the influence of the Spielberg/Williams collaboration on the use of music in his films (jump to 49:13 in the video):

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When I grew up, I was watching Steven Spielberg's movies with John Williams. I was like, fuck, that's how you do it! Music and what the movie is, they bash together. Not that I'm comparing us at all, but that's what influenced me. That's how it should be. These two things smash together and you're supposed to grab and smash an audience with that stuff. That was my influence, I thought that's how you're supposed to do it.

[Maurizio 6,913]

Very nice!

[mrbellamy 8,243]

Trent Reznor had some very gentlemanly things to say about Our Lord and Savior recently:

(can't seem to get the timestamp to work right, but go to 31 minutes and 25 seconds)

[Wojo 2,458]

Fluffy?

[Incanus 5,890]

Fluffy?

Johnny's music is cuddly and fluffy with sugar coating. Didn't you know that? Also warm, obvious, hummable and nothing like modern audiences need. They want to be inspired by the combination of industrial machinery and kitchen appliances mixed in with a rough sounds of electronically manipulated violins and a rock band. That says "hello were are contemporary and speak to contemporary aesthetics. We are not fluffy. We offer no warmth, we are not obvious".

[BloodBoal 8,711]

Fluffy?

Well, it doesn't get fluffier than that:

[Incanus 5,890]

Fluffy?

Well, it doesn't get fluffier than that:

Angela Morley is so proud of giving John Williams his trademark fluffiness.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

I've never trusted fluffy-ness, and I never will. Ive never been able to forgive it, for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

Johnny's memory, his feelings of loyalty, obedience, friendship... might all be there.

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

Not long after... they found a cure... A GODDAMN CURE!

[indy4 160]

Pretty short, but Stephen Sondheim gives a brief shout-out to JW's score to Jaws.

1:28

[indy4 160]

Rachel Maddow gives a nice tribute to Fanfare for Fenway...you can watch it minute-by-minute here (starts with a coupe commercials):

https://archive.org/details/MSNBC_20120421_100000_The_Rachel_Maddow_Show#start/3360/end/3420

[Muad'Dib 2,059]

Didn't know where else to post this, but I think it's a compliment of sorts -out of context doesn't make much sense, but within the episode it's so damn funny

[mrbellamy 8,243]

I don't get it...

[BloodBoal 8,711]

Neither do I, but I'm sure it's very funny if you do.

[Muad'Dib 2,059]

During the episode, some ominous extradiegetic music plays at certain times and this particular woman seems to be aware of it, and even now and then she's like "what the hell?" getting more and more mad by it as the episode progresses. By the end, she can't take it anymore and screams that particular line.

Or something like that.

[mahler3 548]

Zimmer talks about Williams all the time. He said a bunch of stuff when he was first rumored to score Man Of Steel.

He called Close Encounters the greatest tone poem ever written.

Joe Kramer's story in being hired for Jack Reacher revealed Tom Cruise's love for Williams.

The 2002 Oscars with JW conducting as MD features Tom Cruise grinning and acknowledging gushingly at John Williams near the start. Can't find a YouTube link.

[crumbs 16,007]

Zimmer talks about Williams all the time. He said a bunch of stuff when he was first rumored to score Man Of Steel.

He called Close Encounters the greatest tone poem ever written.

Joe Kramer's story in being hired for Jack Reacher revealed Tom Cruise's love for Williams.

The 2002 Oscars with JW conducting as MD features Tom Cruise grinning and acknowledging gushingly at John Williams near the start. Can't find a YouTube link.

That's just because he's trying to recruit JW into scientology.

[mahler3 548]

Ha!

[Thor 9,362]

During the episode, some ominous extradiegetic music plays at certain times and this particular woman seems to be aware of it, and even now and then she's like "what the hell?" getting more and more mad by it as the episode progresses. By the end, she can't take it anymore and screams that particular line.

Or something like that.

Would have been more funny if I had actually heard her say "Williams" (it cuts off at "John..."), I had heard the background music and I knew what this animated series actually was called or was all about!

[BloodBoal 8,711]

Would have been more funny if I had actually heard her say "Williams" (it cuts off at "John...")

That sometimes happens with short videos on Youtube. Change the video resolution, that should fix the problem.

[Muad'Dib 2,059]

It says Williams complete for me.

Jesus, Thor....

[BloodBoal 8,711]

It says Williams complete for me.

Jesus, Thor....

It's the Norwegian Censorship Committee's fault. They blocked the end of that video in Norway.

[Marian Schedenig 11,694]

It says Williams complete for me.

Jesus, Thor....

Yes, but Thor doesn't like it complete.

[Muad'Dib 2,059]

Was watching a gameplay of the new King's Quest game and look who gets thanked in the credits

It's probably another Johnny though, but I thought it would be amusing if it was ours

[Marian Schedenig 11,694]

Probably a relative of Roberta and Ken Williams.

[Miguel Andrade 1,725]

Anne-Sophie Mutter called Williams one of the finest living composers, either for film or concert hall. You can hear her saying it on the bonus interview of the Club Album blu-ray.

Just out of curiosity, when she plays the theme from Schindler's List, a lady in the audience is seen crying...

[SafeUnderHill 205]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

Which one was Bain again? The starfish?

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

Okay...

[SafeUnderHill 205]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

Shakespeare's son?

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

What?

[Arpy 4,255]

Alas poor Bain, I knew ye. In America!

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[Will Tasker 21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YAPg1ppw0

Christopher Reeves speaks highly of John Williams at a Gala Event.

[Jill Sandwich 11,166]

Christopher Reeves?

[Wojo 2,458]

George Reeves.

Christopher Reeve.

Superman.

We know who he meant.

[Will Tasker 21]

Gah, yeah, my typo. I stared at it for a second - unsure if he was the "plural" name or not - and then shrugged and hit "post"

[Cerebral Cortex 3,365]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YAPg1ppw0

Christopher Reeves speaks highly of John Williams at a Gala Event.

Great video. Thanks for posting it. Welcome to the forums, by the way!