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[Delorean90]

About 11:28 of "Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett," the little fanfare for Luke's comeback in the unused section is quite nice.

EDIT: Ooh! 3:14 of "Short Round Helps"! When Indy swings between the catwalks. Always loved that one.

[Faleel]

The Death of Red Leader.

[Delorean90]

YES.

[nightscape94]

Williams gets a lot of mileage out of those three notes at the end of E.T. when the space ship hooks left. That's sort of a mini-mini-fanfare.

[wanner251]

Another fav...

Belly of the Steel Beast 4:00

[jtwfan]

Always loved the mini-fanfares in Into The Trap (1:45 - 1:58) and Hyperspace (3:23 - 3:30).

[indy4]

Williams gets a lot of mileage out of those three notes at the end of E.T. when the space ship hooks left. That's sort of a mini-mini-fanfare.

That reminds me, in the liner notes for some CD the author claimed that at the point where the ship leaves a rainbow in the sky (during this fanfare, if I remember correctly), Williams references "Over the Rainbow."

[SF1_freeze]

The best of the best is the moment of blissful joy, excitement and adventure when Luke talks to Dack when they are about to enter the Snowspeeder right before the Battle of Hoth. This is a perfect moment, a perfect musical transcription of the joyful, youthful excitement the characters share in that scene. It doesnt get better than that!
Enjoy the best Williams fanfare from 3:34 (and with the just fanfare from 03:44) till 04:00 in "The Battle of Hoth"! Moments like that in an regardless of those superhuman score make "The Empire Strikes Back" the best score of John Williams whole career.

There is also another fanfare in Space Camp that is among Williams best: Listen to "White Sands" from 06:10 till 06:30
Also check out : Far and Away; The Big Match 03:16 till 03:24
And then there is the fabulous Rebel Fleet fanfare from RotJ: 08:29-08:40 in The Death of Yoda/Obi Wan's Revelation

Other favorites have already been mentioned like the Victory fanfare from RotJ, the Sword Fight from Hook, the British Troops motif from ToD or the New York fanfare from Home Alone 2, the Asteroid motif or Boba Fett's sinister brass fanfare...

[Bellosh]

The best of the best is the moment of blissful joy, excitement and adventure when Luke talks to Dack when they are about to enter the Snowspeeder right before the Battle of Hoth. This is a perfect moment, a perfect musical transcription of the joyful, youthful excitement the characters share in that scene. It doesnt get better than that!
Enjoy the best Williams fanfare from 3:34 (and with the just fanfare from 03:44) till 04:00 in "The Battle of Hoth"! Moments like that in an regardless of those superhuman score make "The Empire Strikes Back" the best score of John Williams whole career.

Fuck yes. Although, I didn't choose this because I thought it was against the thread's "rules"

But yes, I agree with everything you said.

[E.T. & Elliott]

Wait, has Desert Chase when the car goes off the cliff been mentioned? Awesome. They even used that in the trailer when the title comes up. I first saw that in line for The Great Movie Ride at Disney.

I wouldn't have mentioned the snowspeeder departure fanfare because it's a reworking of Luke's theme. But it's still incredibly, remarkably wonderful. I prefer it on the Anthology with a proper ending and not segueing immediately into Battle in the Snow.

[indy4]

Speaking the Desert Chase, how about when Indy finds the horse and starts chasing the truck.