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I will try... Roald (awaiting another classic Yoda line to follow this post...)

..But, but Luke Theme is a MARCH and Across The Stars is almost a WALTZ?? Mesa donno understando... Roald

....why does that remark bring back some good memories..... Roald

Nixon?? I hear The Imperial March in that one, but Across The Stars....? Nah.... Roald

Look, I consider the Star Wars story and the characters to be AMAZING; those aspects will always be my MY favorites. Purely cinematically speaking: Peter Jackson's direction is way superior to anything seen in Star Wars and the screenplays are a lot better. John Williams' music is by far my favorite film music ever and that will probably NEVER change. The Lord Of The Rings is my second favorite film series EVER! I love it. But I still love Star Wars more. Roald

To asume that the quality of a score can be based on the NUMBER of themes is ridiculous in my opinion. Are we talking about the movies of the scores? Star Wars is my favorite don't get me wrong, but The Lord Of The Rings are better made films. MUCH better! Roald

Luke's Theme, Hook, Amazing Stories... Can we agree on the fact that Across The Stars is obviously based on EVERY theme Williams has ever written??? Roald BTW, richuk - I like your post!

Nah... And Burton got back on track with Big Fish already... Roald

....???? Zombie like? sucky? porn? What is it? Roald, excited about The Omega Man...

Very true. Great theme, boring score. Roald

Length of the notes and intervals? Also not very similar. Are we talking about the same music here? Roald

I think Seven Years In Tibet was NOTHING like the Hollywood interpretation of Asian music as you describe. I found Seven Years much more "authentic" than Glass' Kundun, which got all the credit in 1997. Roald

Even after Planet Of The Apes??? Roald

Luke's Theme????? I can give you the notes of the two pieces, but they are really very unalike. The Superman Theme or E.T. Flying's Theme have MUCH more in common with Luke's Theme. Not to mention Korngold's King's Row! Roald

Wasn't Chocolate written by her? A nice score I remember vaguely. I liked the film by the way. Roald

I'm so glad Williams didn't again used the same structure and thematic approach he used on Leia's Theme, Superman Love Theme, Marion's Theme, Han Solo And The Princess, E.T. and Me and Luke and Leia. I hope you understand what structure I'm refering to. These pieces are, ofcourse, very different in a melodic sense. Across The Stars is more straightforward, more "Hornerish", but not in bad way. I love it's simplicity (and the orchestration works fine with me!). The militaristic passage is brilliant! It makes the piece more profound and when the theme repeats itself after this passage it comes out so effectively and strong. Williams clearly wrote a theme in the same vain as Francis Lai's Love Strory or a Maurice Jarre piece. It's different; it's what Hollywood regards a Love Theme to be. The middle passage makes it actually deviate from becoming too simple, too cliche if you will. Roald

Stefan, I will send you a list of my Goldsmith collection, ok? I really understand what you say about the mid-range scores. I mean, I listen to First Contact occasionaly (the main theme is gorgeous), but uh, is THAT just mid-range for Goldsmith?! Then I have much more to discover! Roald

According to the IMDB This one is still among Williams' scoring assignments in 2005, but what is actually known about this production? I know it will star Jim Carrey, but does this mean Williams will have to score FOUR films this year instead of luxurious THREE? Any help will be highly rewarded! Roald

Ta-Na-Na-Naaahhh Roald

Does anyone know, now that were talking computer game music all of a sudden, the theme from the classic Commodore 64 game The Last Ninja? It had an amazing melody! Roald

Don't know that one... Gonna check it out! Roald, craving for more zombie-films... (boy, that sounds nerdy...!)

Strange, I've always found Marion's Theme very similar to Han Solo And The Princess, although when I play both pieces on the piano, I find them completely different... Roald

And 3 films in one year is already A LOT for John Williams! Save 1990, 1997 and 2002 he has always scored only 1 or 2 films since 1989. Roald

Yeah, that was just to see if y'all would read my post! (Something similar I often say before class when I make a mistake: "Oh, I did that on purpose to see if you were paying attention..." Those kids buy that evertime!!) Anyway; I just corrected it! Thank you for that! Otherwise I would look like an ass Roald

Uuuhhh... Did you also read my 'putting up the white flag', YET skill skeptical reaction? Something's still nagging me a bit on this one. I don't know... Well, maybe it's just me being "extremely paranoid to a pathological level" Roald