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I can definitely relate to that. I think it's notable that JW scores "re tell" the story of of the movie. Not many other composers can claim to that. Often JW underscores the "ideas" in a scene like nobody else can and tells his own story through the music Take that short bit in RotS where Palpatine is talking about Darth Plageis. The scene is just useless by itself but JW manages to create music that evoke mysterious ancient sith lords

Steven showed me the film. I couldn't speak, I was so overwhelmed. I said to Steven, "You need a better composer than I am for this film." He said, "I know, but they're all dead to me."

I dunno, that cover is a bit mundane. Or as Romao would say, pedestrian.

Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth. Now, through the miracle of Thomas Newman and his musical talent....

Boba Fett has a cool costume, but he's barely a character.

Or an Ent conducting the orchestra with Williams as his baton.

Max Von Sydow can only play a Dark Lord. Hehehehe! You think a lightsaber can defeat me?! Heheheheheh... (oh, no, there's trees behind him)

I think a nice thing to take away from this is that they're all rather light adjectives. One concern of mine is that Force Awakens won't quite find the line between fun adventure and darker, emotional story/character development, and that the final result will either come across as too light or too self-serious, ringing hollow in either case. Very tricky to hit that bullseye but crucial to making a successful Star Wars movie, something that really has it all and does it effortlessly. While the early teasers and pictures have been great, they lean slightly on the more intense side of things and so I like that JW's comments tip the scales back the other way.

My second attempt at a cover. I prefer the blue logo over the greyscale version on the teaser poster.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/star-wars-vanity-fair-the-force-awakens/392669/?fb_ref=Default

I can definitely relate to that.

Funny story .... When the timing sheets were prepared for the DOS score, whoever was typing them up kept referring to Bard's oldest daughter as his wife. Shore had to send a handwritten note saying, "Hey, that's his daughter!"

The reason they did it is simply to make it shorter, I believe. A more literal adaptation, which Snyder would have been perfectly able to pull off (this guy did that very silly 300 thing, ffs), would have needed a load of more minutes, and a different pacing. Here's what I meant before. I prefer the endings of the book because the differences in a lot of details crate striking differences in tone between the book and the film. And the tone of the book there is much weirder and random and I like it like that. From the colours of Ozymandias' lair being completely changed, to Ozymandias' presence, to the meaning of Bubastis, to the idea that Dan and Laurie are having sex while Rorscharch dies, to the completely out of nowhere but repeatedly foreshadowed psychic (which is psychic for a reason) "squid" (Moore suddenly screams, yes this is still a silly thing about superheroes), etc. It's less Hollywood. The vision of the million of splashed bodies dripping blood is Hollywoodized into a sort of simple disintegration. The idea of people having fears psychically introduced into their minds is deleted too. I like two things about the film version. That Ozymandias uses gloves, and the splat of blood after Rorscharch is murdered. That was nice. Book-esque. The ending would have more impact if we had spent more time with the people who die, maybe. Maybe Laurie's mother should have been placed in New York and died with the rest. As for the discussion about colors: the colors of the book are on purpose. They did these colour combinations because they were unusual among superhero comic books of the USA, at the time, I believe (I barely read superhero stuff). And it adds to the tone of the book that the film only captures every now and then. The book is nice. It's probably creative, even if it's through deconstruction and parody. It wouldn't rank about my favourite comic books, though. I feel similarly about the film, just less enthusiastic about the film.

These people must have walked out pretty disappointed and were probably thinking about how much better it would look with more advanced special effects from the future.

This may be somewhat off-topic, but could we work on revising the "DVD & Blu-ray" listing to reflect the Williams-related featurettes/appearances which are true HD on a Blu-ray release vs. upscaled from SD to HD? For example, the featurette from the Blu-ray of Saving Private Ryan is upscaled from SD (from the DVD release) to HD. The specs for various Blu-rays often indicate that some of the "special features" are in SD, but they don't explicitly indicate which are and which aren't. From the standpoint of the Williams-related material only, I'd rather know ahead of time what I'm getting when I buy a Blu-ray release, especially when I'm upgrading from DVD. Just a thought...

Unless it's POA, hopefully! Anything else would be a waste. They missed their chance.

Danny Elfman should totally score these movies. Or everything in general.

Good is a point of view JJ. But from what I have been seeing, reading and hearing this film could turn out rather well.

Don't forget that the liner notes open into a huge fold out poster of Fluffy!

Finally Williams can get his ever-greedy clutches on this most beloved of franchises, namely third-rate STAR TREK sequels.

I'll only be happy if it's an organ concerto.

Yes, we've known this since 1999. Have you discovered the dark side theme in Empire yet?