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New Imperial March variation in new Force Awakens TV Spot


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Beat me to it :)

I'm no musical expert, but that's some kind of deconstruction of The Imperial March, right?

(Thread title is mine, apologies to Karol if you want something else)

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Abrams specifically said the trailer would debut in fall, so I'd be surprised if it was shown next week based on his statement since Fall technically begins September 23. I would love to be wrong, though. This could still be a snippet of the actual trailer.

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Beat me to it :)

I'm no musical expert, but that's some kind of deconstruction of The Imperial March, right?

Yeah, it's a play on the classic opening chords of the Imperial March.

Whoever wrote it, the music was probably processed and amplified accordingly to sound more trailer-ish.

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Thinking it's not Williams with the music later turning out to effectively have been written by Williams will bring you in a fairly embarrassed state (as will thinking it is when it turns out not to be), whereas thinking it either isn't or is Williams when it isn't or is indeed will make you seem all the more clever in either spotting the supposedly low quality work of a trailer composer or Williams's high quality work.

The odds are so unsympathetic the music isn't even worth thinking about.

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Word on the street is that a new trailer will debut on September 4 (aka "Force Friday"), so maybe this is a snippet from that...

Somehow, I don't think that's the case. I don't expect them to reuse shots from previous trailers

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Is it a coincidence that it sounds like the Imperial March? If it's not from Williams, where did the music come from?

It's no coincidence. The reference is clearly intentional. And this is original music, just a matter of who wrote it.

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Shame the sound quality sucks so bad. Despite that, it's quite obviously supposed to make you think of the Imperial March. There's so little of it that it's difficult to say much else beyond that.

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Sounds like a synth mockup to me. Disney may have commissioned a trailer music house to create some stock Star Wars-ian generic trailer music for their never-ending upcoming slate of Star Wars movies.

Or Williams has deconstructed the Imperial March for the First Order theme, which makes all kinds of sense and is the kind of thing Abrams would probably request.

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Abrams specifically said the trailer would debut in fall, so I'd be surprised if it was shown next week based on his statement since Fall technically begins September 23. I would love to be wrong, though. This could still be a snippet of the actual trailer.

Well, summer doesn't start till the end of June and yet May releases count as summer ones. ;)

Karol

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BRIDGE OF SPIES is being distributed in USA by Disney (Oct. 16). I'll bet Official Trailer 1 is on it. Trailer 2 will probably be on GOOD DINOSAUR.

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Those horns playing the D right at the beginning sound like they're playing at full volume but they've been mixed down so they can be barely heard. It sounds sickeningly inspired by the "epic horns" trope. I think those horns also play a trill between A-Bb just before the end, which for some reason doesn't sound very "Williams" although it could just be me. Tbh that whole thing with the lightsabers turning on in time with the music came across a bit kitsch...

I think it's either:

a very well-made adaptation by a talented musician

or:

John Williams on a bad day.

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