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This is terrible.

Has to be the horn concerto and the beautiful Nocturne.

This is depressing, he fought so hard.

Go Patton! It's a masterpiece.

No. He did such a good job on SG1.

This list is getting small!

Like you've never posted on a JWFAN thread from a train or a cinema!

If you listen to the alternate takes on the Star Wars main title in the Binary Sunset (Alternate) track, earlier versions began the main title without a single chord, but two notes that clearly sound like the verbal phrasing of 'Star Wars'.

Yes I've noticed this. Also many of Williams 60s scores include a main title song, so it's probably a habit of his that comes from this.

Michael Nyman, there is no better British composer. He is if you go back enough generations.

I don't think Williams has dumbed down his approach at all. Quite the opposite. He's clearly matured and learnt more of his craft. He had already mastered melody and harmony in the 70s and 80s, yet his scores of the 90s and 00s show far more skill with orchestration and rhythm. His music has become more complex and interesting to the ear. I would have to say Forward To Time Past from Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. The originality of this atmospheric piece with dissonant harmony and instruments recorded and played back in reverse. I don't think anyone has done a more brilliant musical depiction of time travel.

What ever happened to him, he used to be a regular on the filmtracks forum. A major film music geek like much of the rest of us!

So, basically, what he's saying is: "I took what was once a cultural filmatic icon with classic tales (not so much the second installment) and turned the lead into a second rate characature, and joke. I'm proud of it!" Umm, Indiana Jones was never meant to be a serious movie. It's an action flick with comedy and adventure, it was always about jokes and characature. There is nothing about the nuke scene that doesn't fit within the essence of Indiana Jones. It is no more ridiculous than a mysterious ark that melts people or a thousand year old crusader who can't cross a line or riding a submarine like a horse in a journey to another continent.

Of course, why would you think a film score requires you to watch the movie? If it's well written it should stand alone. As Alex North said "People argue that the only good screen music is music the audience is not conscious of hearing. I don't agree. Music has a power emotional influence and should be part of the whole film. After all, music is to be listened to, not ignored."

Just tell the director that unless he's willing to cut the film to the music, the music should be written after so it can be a cohesive whole and not a cut up and looped mess. Nope, Alex North wrote it after the film was made. Shame it was cut out of the film.

Indiana 4 was a good movie, at least as good as Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade. Unlike the Star Wars prequels we actually got a decent movie. So this is the first thing George Lucas has done right in 20 years, yay!

It might be true that the cost of fame is forgoing privacy, it's unrealistic to expect both. But that doesn't mean it's okay to be a stalker and chase after a limo.

About fricking time.

Didn't we already send him some letters a few years ago through the forum?

One important thing about Williams is his knowledge and influence from film music of the past. He is a continuation and modernisation of golden age film music. So if he was starting today, he would probably be rather like Michael Giaachino or Marco Beltrami. These are composers who are very much influenced by greats of the past and clearly love the genre. Also Blumenkohl, your avatar is the scariest thing I've ever seen.

Eurovision is to music as Ed Wood is to movies. I love it!

Corny cliche.

Name the last score you heard that had an exceptional level of musicianship and originality.

What's a CD? I thought audiophiles all got lossless FLACs these days, shouldn't we have a thread on those, not antiques?

I mostly agree. There is little of quality today. But then occasionally you find an exception.