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Will JW still be known, listened to (outside of specialist film music courses) and acclaimed? Will his fame/listening audience increase post mortem? Will his music be studied as a textbook case of leitmotif, or neo-romanticism, or something else? Will there be internet/supernet fora about him, with more than 5 crazed fans?

Maybe, but for the rest of us who were not LOTR fanboys, couldn't speak Elvish and got confused by the continual cutting to random characters (like Liv Tyler and Cate Blanchet) who didn't seem to do much at all, and who think that Tolkien's world is sexist, morally conservative and dull; we found the films poor.

If that is not an orchestra, it is BY FAR the best synthesised music ever. Listen to Sean's Theme for example. The violins in that are too good to be faked. In short, it is an orchestra.

I think it will be poor. Visually maybe stunning, but poor as a film. Just like LOTR.

Not sure I would go to the "one of JW's best contributions to art" extreme, but it is an excellent score.

I have only included ones I have heard. Out of this world - 5* and masterpiece status Jaws Raiders of the Lost Ark ET Hook Jurassic Park Schindler's List A.I. Artifical Intelligence Excellent - 5* (but will be forgotten in 50 years) Temple of Doom Last Crusade Empire of the Sun Minority Report The Terminal Good - 4* Lost World Average - 3* 1941, SPR (except for Hymn to the Fallen which is 5*) Not heard enough of/not heard: CE3K, Sugarland, Amistrad

My two cents: John's masterpiece scores are: Jaws Star Wars ESB Raiders of the Lost Ark ET Hook Schindler's List Jurassic Park TPM (maybe) AI Those are his truly groundbreaking, most powerful, most original, most perfect efforts. Only 10 (but that is far, far more than any other film composer since the Golden Age). There are then a whole slew - like 20 or 30 - scores that are great, but not masterpieces; ie when in 100 years time we write a history of film music they will not be featured, but now they are among the best releases of each year/decade (but not century, as the masterpiece scores are). In them I would include MR and AOTC.

I voted for I am the Senate, but to be honest all of them are fantastic. One which is not there (I don't think at least) is "Scenes and Dreams" music, for the reunion of Padme and Anakin. In the film, that section (up to Grievous travels to Lord Sidious) is gorgeous.

If he gets off, I say execution. As Mace Windu - Jedi, wise and powerful - said "He controls the courts. He's too dangerous to be left alive"

Not for much longer! I like MR as well, it is a class act with some stunning cues (Anderton's Great Escape, Sean's Theme, Pre-Crime to the Rescue, the last 5 minutes of the film).

Anakin's theme? What does THAT suggest about the future of the new-born! Birth of the Twins is both a lullaby and the children who are born actually go on to be good...

Guilty or not, he is clearly a strange individual. Guilty or not, he still sleeps with children in his bed. Guilty or not, he still has blown a fortune on crazy schemes like a funfair (!?)

Or any of Stepmom. Nothing happens in the score.

Thanks - have contacted him via PM.

Where do I get this?

I have listened and listened but keep missing the quote of Anakin's theme. I assume it is in the cue "Breaking News and Anakin's Dream" from the JackChapple complete score, and I have tried to hear it like 5 times without success. Can someone give me a cue time?

And according to the George Lucas article at Wikipedia, he is personally worth - literally - billions. He likes his $$$!

Just wondering: given that, even though we have no DVD or other audio source for ROTS, we already have a first "best attempt" at a complete ROTS score recording, is the same true of AOTC? Basically, we have the TPM UE which, whilst imperfect, is still a good way to get a feel for most of the score - at least in the film. We also now have JackChapple's ROTS, which is as good as we are going to get until the DVD is released. But (I at least) do not have anything more than the OST for AOTC. I was not a member of the board when AOTC came out, so I probably missed most of the attempts to make a complete AOTC score from the OST, games and DVD channels. Does such a recording exist, and is whoever has it willing to let me have a copy?

He is not going to make any more. He is now 61 years old (born 14 May 1944). The films will take a minimum of 9 years to make (assuming he would make another trilogy). That would make him - at a minimum - 70 when he finished, assuming pre-production began tomorrow. Realistically, he is not going to be able to start for a few years (Indy IV, "spending more time with the family" etc). He is just too old. Also, would Hamill, Ford, Fisher et al still WANT to make more?

1. I would disagree. It has some absolutely showstopping cues, although the songs are not great. (But then I am somewhat biased as thi sis one of my favourite JW scores) 2. I didn't say it was good. I said that the fact that it was not arranged chronologically was not a bad thing.

In some cases (e.g. AI OST, some of the Indy OSTs) I would disagree. But in this case, chronological would definitely have been better.

"Musical flow" or not, I still stand by my criticisms. The best of the prequel albums was AOTC, which accurately represented the film's score, and did not contain already released music. The ROTS OST fails on both counts. Not to say it is bad - any JW music released commercially is good - but it could have been SO much better.

And let's face it: Scout is a MUCH better name than Atticus.

Sorry...

Congratulations. I assume that, instead of Mozart, you will be using JW music to nurture his mental development.