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#1 Mr Big

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 03:40 AM

They released the John Williams featurette, it's a bit disappointing.
http://www.movieweb....-ray-featurette

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 03:53 AM

Wow lots of closeups of sheet music pages. Can anyone read the slates or cue names?
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 04:48 AM

That was disappointing. I don't think we got anything new from Williams, and just a paraphrase of Spielberg's liner notes in the OST. Oh well.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:41 AM

Is this really all they have on the Blu-ray release about the score? If so then it is rather disappointing.

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"We pop out and come into the world and music is there. We didn't invent it - it's all organised in the atmosphere by divinity or whatever. It's a miracle." - John Williams-

I think music is a stream of some kind. It could be blood. It could be water. It could be ether. Whatever it is it seems to be a living, organic force that’s in motion, that serves humanity and is part of humanity and part of what describes us as humans. We sing, play, dance, all the things that we do. And there is a vibrant and great literature we have been given. ... As musicians, we join the stream. We swim in the stream with all the other millions of music makers. It’s a life force, a strong one, surrounding us and we are part of it. -John Williams-


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Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:42 AM

Surely that's just an excerpt.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:58 AM

There's also that short clip of the sound editor praising the score. You would think that for what Spielberg has called JW's best score in a long time, there would be more than a one minute interview.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 06:41 AM

They released the John Williams featurette, it's a bit disappointing.
http://www.movieweb....-ray-featurette


You're kidding? That's just a clip from the featurette! ;)

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 08:15 AM

1m1 Dartmoor

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:41 AM

Relax people,. it's just an excerpt. Williams always gets 7-8 minute long featurettes at Spielberg's personal request.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 08:47 PM

Thank God! That was painfully short!

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 10:52 PM

Hi,
I have it on good authority from the marketing people that this is the intro to a feature that runs about 10 minutes and there is a title plate that comes up on the last note of that intro. :sigh:

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 08:21 AM

Great! Now it makes sense.

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 02:41 PM

Could someone please upload the full featurette?

I do not have a Blu-ray player, nor can afford one, and therefore do not have War Horse on Blu-ray (I have the DVD).

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 02:44 PM

Could someone please upload the full featurette?

I do not have a Blu-ray player, nor can afford one, and therefore do not have War Horse on Blu-ray (I have the DVD).


The full score featurette will not be available on DVD, then?

Won't there be a 2-disc special edition DVD or something?

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:39 PM

It IS not available on DVD.

As of right now, there is no 2-disc special edition DVD, not my knowledge anyway.

Will someone please answer my question?

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 08:02 PM

Hmmm, so what about the featurette?

Is this the full version? I hope not!

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 09:35 PM

This is NOT the full featurette.

That is why I asked for someone to upload the full version.

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 06:22 AM

This is NOT the full featurette.

That is why I asked for someone to upload the full version.


Just keep demanding it. I'm sure someone will bow to your imperiousness eventually.

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 07:45 PM

I am not demanding it.

I am only asking if someone could upload the full featurette. That is all.

Oh, and where do you go about calling me imperious,

when I am only asking in a common, calm, and polite way?

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Posted 07 May 2012 - 08:31 AM

It would be nice if someone could share* it, really.

I dont have a BR player either, and im planing to buy the DVD. There is not going to be a 2 disc edition? Damn :/

BTW the DVD is set to be released 27th june here so it's a long time even if i could buy a Bluray...


*a description of it ;)
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:24 PM

My Blu-Ray just came today, which is cool since the release date was this day and I have it already here in Finland.
Ordered it from England, very good service.

The sad thing is, there isn't any featurette about music... :crymore: :crymore: :crymore:

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Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:29 PM

??????????

And the teaser they showed us????

maybe just for the USA version?

its impossible, there must be there inside the making of or something...
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:36 PM

I couldn't find it. There was one 20 minutes "making of" feature and I "fast-forwarded" it and didn't see any
sign of that teaser.

Well I just came from work, little bit drunk, have to check it again...

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Posted 07 May 2012 - 08:02 PM

are you some kind of wine tester?

'cause otherwise.. how did you get drunk at work! :lol:
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 08:11 PM

:lol:

Well we had a horn audition, got a new player, celebrated that. The audition was over before it was scheduled so
technically I got drunk at work... :whistle:

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 02:13 AM

I believe only the 4 disc bluray set has the featurette. My copy has it.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 07:19 AM

Oh, where I bought the Blu Ray only had this one disc edition. I thought it had this featurette.
Obviously I was too careless and bought a wrong item.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 09:44 AM

Here's a comprehensive review of the War Horse Blu-ray:

http://www.blu-ray.c...y/35836/#Review

The JW featurette is this:

Editing & Scoring (HD, 9 minutes): Editor Michael Kahn and composer John Williams discuss their personal attachment to the story, their work on the film, and their ongoing collaboration with Spielberg (who weighs in on their efforts as well).


"It's still baffling to me. I sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and do my best... The remarkable thing is that my music is heard by billions of people." --John Williams

"Let me say, however, there is no "next" John Williams. Sadly, he is unique--- a figure who simultaneously embodies and transcends the music of all the masters of film music who preceded him (much like Brahms and Wagner of the Romantic era). He comes from a time when the craft of music in film was still one of the ear, heart and mind. Today, sadly, the craft is largely technical. Most composers do not conceive their music "inwardly" but rather at the computer--- and with rather limited skills, musically, at that. The inner spirit knows no boundaries--- our plastic abilities, sadly, do. John is a man of spirit, heart, intellect and soaring music." -- Conrad Pope about John Williams

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 10:05 AM

Why would Williams and Kahn have any personal attachment to the story?

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 10:17 AM

Why have I still not seen this film? I'm gonna watch it this week.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 10:48 AM

My Blu-Ray just came today, which is cool since the release date was this day and I have it already here in Finland.
Ordered it from England, very good service.

The sad thing is, there isn't any featurette about music... :crymore: :crymore: :crymore:


You joker! :lol:

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 11:22 AM

I saw the film last night - rather impressive. Story moves rather slow, but I felt it worked. Ending is pure Spielberg sentimental mush, but effective mush.

Does the featurette have anything except Spielberg saying how amazing Williams' music is, and Williams saying how Spielberg didn't dislike any of his ideas?

These two gents badly need to be interviewed with some real questions.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 11:36 AM

I was only half paying attention when I watched it, and that was a month ago. But it had some nice scoring stage footage and raw recordings, like you hear the actual sound from the stage and not the finished track overlaid on the footage. Rehearsal with the strings on No Man's Land. It also has a full orchestra performance of much of No Man's Land that proves that the film version of the cue has either an insert or is a different version altogether, that extra part that's in the film is not something that was micro-edited out of the full track.
He mentions that he wrote several different versions of Dartmoor, 1912 - the final version with the flute solo is apparently the most subtle and restrained version.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 01:44 PM

That is awesome.

So, would you be able to upload the entire featurette, please?

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 02:26 PM

I'd love to, but I don't have the equipment to rip a bluray.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 03:02 PM

I'll bet someone could help you.




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