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The Book Thief (2013) - New Williams film score!


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Yeah, more family oriented.

Doesn't matter to me what the film is, any new score from Williams is a treasure at this point. If he's doing this project, then it means he wanted to do it - no one can force him into something he doesn't care about. And that's a good sign.

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Yeah, more family oriented.

Doesn't matter to me what the film is, any new score from Williams is a treasure at this point. If he's doing this project, then it means he wanted to do it - no one can force him into something he doesn't care about. And that's a good sign.

Karol

Exactly!

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Cue Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell or Yo-Yo Ma...it's jews and WW2, after all.

Yes! It'll be fantastic!

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Yeah! Why not piano? Or a flute?

JW did piano in Angela's Ashes and flute in War Horse. It's bassoon time!

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Silence! He should score everything with silence!

Too late! Too late! Zimmer already reserved that technique for his next movies!

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This immediately reminded me of 'For Gilliam' from The Fury.

I was always curious about the scene For Gilliam scored. I've never seen the movie

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Silence but with violins.

Silence of the Violins. Now there's is a great movie title.

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Williams always seems particularly inspired from movies with a strong literary backbone (both Angela's Ashes and Memoirs of a Geisha come to mind, of course). The period setting is also another great source of inspiration. Last but not least, JW gives always his best when kids are the main characters of the film.

I'm sure it'll be something special and unique.

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Silence of the Violins. Now there's is a great movie title.

Zimmer would definitely score that!

Another good one for him would be When the Woodwinds Stood Still.

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Williams: "Why did you come to me and not Zimmer?"

Producers: "Because we need melody and lyricism."

Williams: "Say no more, I'll do it ... and for free!"

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Williams always seems particularly inspired from movies with a strong literary backbone (both Angela's Ashes and Memoirs of a Geisha come to mind, of course).

There's also that book called That British Boy With Round Glasses.

I predict:

A mix of War Horse and Empire of the Sun

The Sun Emperor's New War Horse.

Silence of the Violins. Now there's is a great movie title.

Zimmer would definitely score that!

Another good one for him would be When the Woodwinds Stood Still.

And "The Death Of Trumpets"

And also Tuba or Not Tuba.

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Just crossed my mind:

Do you know what would be entirely ORIGINAL for Williams?

To write a score for a string quartet with maybe 2-3 instruments more.

He has written for orchestra, we all know he can write, but such a score would be someting NEW! And totally UNEXPECTED!

I'm even surprised that he hasn't written any concert music too for sting quartet.

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There are plenty examples of chamber-sized pieces in many JW film scores, btw. But what filmmusic is meaning I guess it's an entire score written for a small group from beginning to end. I think the closest one to that is The Missouri Breaks.

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I guess "Family Portrait" from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Children Suite counts?

As well as other pieces in the suite.

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There are plenty examples of chamber-sized pieces in many JW film scores, btw. But what filmmusic is meaning I guess it's an entire score written for a small group from beginning to end. I think the closest one to that is The Missouri Breaks.

yes, that was what i meant.

A string quartet with maybe a harp, a piano and a ww instrument for the entire score..

like Patrick Doyle's La Ligne Droite.

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Wasn't Geisha played with just piano and cello?

yes, of course there are many chamber arrangements of Williams' film scores.

Again, I'm talking about an entire original film score for a string quartet.

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I would prefer he write for the whole orchestra. His large scale Strings writing is better than any other film composers. Plus, the album might get repetitive IMHO.

agreed.

Best =Full power JW strings

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Plus, the album might get repetitive IMHO.

It's not the orchestration that counts but what do you do with the instruments you have.

Let's not count the film scores that are scored for larger-than-life orchestras, and are repetitive all the way! :)

(of course I mean by other composers)

The Fountain by Mansell, was for a chamber ensemble from what I remember, and it was an exceptional score!

So, imagine what Williams would do!

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To those who read the book.

Any chance for "boom tzzz" action and some choir?

I think that will be the sound of the movie title:

boom tzzz = book thief-zzz

Kinda like Superman

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This immediately reminded me of 'For Gilliam' from The Fury.

I was always curious about the scene For Gilliam scored. I've never seen the movie

Of course also known as "For Terry Gilliam", one of the better J.P. Sousa parodies Williams pulled off.

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To those who read the book.

Any chance for "boom tzzz" action and some choir?

I was gonna ask if beside being narrated by Death, when the girl reads the books they are presented very visually; like if in the movie this were taken advantage of you could have little scenes that take place in other time, and also that would be mean a great opportunity for a creative and diverse score.

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Nice. Even better that the studio moved it up to this year... it was originally supposed to debut mid-January 2014 when they started filming.

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