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7 hours ago, Stefancos said:
Thats ignoring hundreds of hours of Berman era scoring
Don't be absurd. The Berman era had wallpaper.
Berman was a visionary. He grasped before anyone else what music set to picture would turn into 30 years later.
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27 minutes ago, Cerebral Cortex said:Perhaps something like this?
I hate you for sharing that. I'm going to go sob in a corner for the next three hours.
This directionless drivel we're getting from Jeff "Mom Bought Me a Mac With GarageBand On It" Russo is a true shame.
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The shitty designers on nuTrek stuff really have a back for making the technological future look frightening and inhuman.
”Wouldn’t be cool if these ugly scary things were just floating around in San Francisco?”
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I hear he is risen from the dead to score a Trump campaign ad.
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On 1/14/2020 at 3:17 PM, Sweeping Strings said:A teen vegan advocate whose one album to date begins with the sound of her slurping saliva from her Invisalign braces and deals with themes of drug addiction, climate change, mental health and suicide.
I'm suddenly very nostalgic for the likes of Shirley Bassey.She at least writes her own damned music, which is more than what most pop musicians these days can say.
35 minutes ago, gkgyver said:What did you expect? Someone chosen for actual talent?
It's much more important these days to educate the audience on things they don't want to.
She's talented. Not just for how young she is, but compared to most pop musicians out there right now.
I also have a rule: it's idiotic to judge a person's talent and skill based on their point of view. Not the same thing. I apply this equally to fools who try to dismiss Wagner, Walt Disney, one day John White Man Williams, and yes, even Billie Eilish by the likes of you and weepy strings up there.
Don't turn into the crap you're trying to oppose.
3 hours ago, mstrox said:That's not true - that's more of a subset. If you look at the Top 100 US singles last year, women on the list include Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Halsey, Ava Max - none of them have that aesthetic. The only chart topper who does is Billie Eilish. And heck, Lana Del Rey is even smiling on one of her most recent albums!
It's all cyclical anyway - dance music has gone from bouncy to moody and back again every 5-10 years since at least the 1970s.
That's a wonderful album.
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5 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:
Well It's also fun to watch the drama here, with everyone hoping for a miracle that JW wins, like they need validation.
I wouldn't be able to enjoy his music if he didn't have 5 oscars to his name already. It's why I've given up on Jerry Goldsmith with his piddly one.
And if John doesn't win a lifetime achievement award, I am going to stop being a fan altogether. I only want to listen to the oeuvre of highly-award-winning-lifetime-achieved music and composers.
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46 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:
I keep them on my radar and i'll find out who's won in the morning, but I take the nominations and winners as absolutely zero indication of how good they actually are.
It's just sort of fun to observe the pandemonium surrounding the whole thing.
I think the pandemonium is dying. Over a 20 year period viewership has plummeted -50%.
1998: 55 million viewers
2018: 27 million viewers
2019: (the first up year in a long time) 29 million viewers.
Most people know BS when they see it.
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7 hours ago, Koray Savas said:
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That’s exciting. She and her brother are two talented musicians.
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Anyone else notice the most active participants in the Oscar threads and the great offense they take from this thread?
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5 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:
Oscars are just gold plated dildos. I don't get the fascination at all unless you are into that kind of thing.
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28 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
Blume, re: your original post. I have no idea what I read, and I've no idea what you said, but I can tell you, categorically, that I had fun reading it
Thanks! If you had fun, you get it in your bones, you just might not know it yet.
Awards are a farce: they select for those who are most ready to hack their works to impress people who give out awards.
Artisans, like John Williams, work for the love of their craft, rather than impressing peer awards committees.
People can sniff hacks like they can sniff out a restaurant that serves food made to impress awards committees. That’s why they go to places that make food for the love of food.
That’s why Williams makes millions in royalties and album sales while most academy award winners go destitute. Gustavo Santolallalalalalallala anyone?
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2 minutes ago, Stefancos said:
Jerry Drax owns it!
Jerry Drax doesn’t exist.
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Just now, Stefancos said:
Star Trek Is Better Than Everything ©!
™, not ©.
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8 minutes ago, Fal J. M. Skywalker said:
Did he strike a nerve? Are you a sucker for actually reading and carefully considering posts? Excited for discussion? Would you be happy if your post caused debate and dialogue so you can get validation?
No.
Bye Fal!
Just now, JoeinAR said:Joker is the biggest pile of shit in some time to be nominated for best picture.
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25 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:
tl;dr
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4 minutes ago, mrbellamy said:
I don’t care so much I wrote a dozen paragraphs
Did I strike a nerve? Are you a sucker? Excited for awards season? Would be happy if your favorite won so you can get validation? -
Imagine you want to find a restaurant to go to. You can look at customer reviews on Yelp or Google. You can listen to what your friends and family recommend. You can drive or walk around down and see which restaurant is the busiest and go there. You can try some new restaurants for yourself and decide if you like them. You can taste the food, experience the service and the ambience, and you can judge for yourself whether or not it’s a good restaurant and whether you’ll come back.
Imagine instead,
But now imagine I get together a bunch of chefs and restaurant staff and I have them participate in something called the Academy of Restaurant Employees. They can invite other people they like from restaurants in town to join our Academy. Once in, everyone’s job is to get together every year and hold an awards ceremony for their peers in town. The wait-staff get to come up with the list of people who will be up for an award for being best wait-staff. The chefs get to come up with the list of people who will be nominated for being the best chefs and so on. Then everybody gets to vote in each category, on who is the best of the best. Except that most of us haven’t a clue what the heck is going on in the other restaurants, because we all work long hours and don’t really care much about what other people are doing. Besides, there are lot of restaurants in town, so how is any one person expected to know it all? So instead we’ll rely on things like word-of-mouth within our restaurant academy and reputations we’ve heard about to cast our votes.
Once everything is set up, we hold a ceremony and award all our favorite restaurants awards for all their accomplishments.
And of course Louis Bisset, the chef at “Le Pompeux” wins. Louis has such a talent taking any food you can imagine, throwing it in a blender, freezing it into a sorbet and plating it on a plate. His restaurant is really chic and that sorbet costs $54 along with a drizzle of pea essence and decorated with tweezer-selected herbs. No one has ever been to his restaurant, because, well, frankly, everyone is Bubba’s Pies that sells a slice of to-die-for pizza for $2 with a plastic cup of wine for $1.50. But Bubba is a bit of an asshole. He’s always greasy looking and he swears like a sailor. He’s never gotten a nomination before, and he never will. But everyone is lined up to eat his pizza, because he makes the best damn pizza on the planet.
So everyone votes for Louis, because he looks like the kind of person that should win this and his restaurant looks like the kind of restaurant that should win awards. But everyone goes to Bubba’s Pies after the awards ceremony for the after party, because damn that pie is good.
On Yelp, Bubba’s Pies has 7853 all 5-star reviews. Le Pompeux has 100 5-star reviews., and another 50 or so 3 or 4 star reviews that complain about feeling like they didn’t have enough to eat and that they felt ripped off. Within two years Le Pompeux goes out of business when a new fancy chef comes into town and opens up “L’idiot” which serves up even fancier sorbets with, get this, liquid nitrogen effects!
Bubba’s Pies sticks around, he’s been around 15 years, and he plans to be around for another 30, because after all, retirement is for schmucks, even though he is filthy rich and could retire any day now. Meanwhile when people walk by L’idiot, they whisper to each other about what happened to “Le Pompeux” and whisper even more quietly about the “Academy’s Curse,” where-in whoever wins best chef and best restaurant ends up going bankrupt soon thereafter.
One day Louis comes by Bubba’s and grabs a pie. He gets tears in his eyes at how delicious that unassuming greasy pizza is. He tells Bubba, “Bubba, you’re lucky. You never got that damned award. The award is a curse. Everyone who gets it goes bankrupt in a year or two.”
Bubba looks at him and laughs, “There’s no Academy Curse, buddy.”
Louis looks back at him and says, “Really? How do you know?”
Bubba replies, “I came by your restaurant once. Le Pompous or whatever the fuck you called it. I got dressed up real nice too. And then you served me a fucking teaspoon of ice cream with some weeds on it and a swirl of olive oil.”
Louis is puzzled, “I don’t understand, Bubba...”
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Bubba looks at him, “Buddy, there’s no damn curse. You went out of business because your food sucks and the awards are phoney. You see the line going out the door and wrapping around the corner and going down 9th street, filled with customers who I know by name? That’s the fucking academy award buddy! You’re a sucker, and so is everyone who pays attention to that Academy crap.”
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I can’t believe John Williams gave Sayuri such a western theme.
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13 hours ago, Larry O said:
God this is such a weird thing to even have to broach on a place like JWFan...
"Woke" simply means aware. That's it. "Stay Woke" is basically a call to pay attention to what's out there and looking to hurt you and yours. Over time it came to mean something more like "pay attention to political happenings and cultural movements seeking to make life worse for you or your friends," and through that usage, the term became first overused (as any popular bit of slang will) and eventually rendered meaningless by its transformation into a meme. At that point, it became demonized on top of losing its meaning, by people not just upset at the obnoxious overuse of the term, but also by the notion other people might actually believe in progressive ideas and movements, and whose cynical nature leaves them inclined to regard such statements or discussions as purely performative and "fake" for the sake of earning internet points from fellow "virtue signalers."At this point, the only people who still even use the term "Woke" are people who more or less the reject the entire concept of "Social Justice" (another term with a long history in America that has only recently become demonized and rendered useless by people made uncomfortable by its modern usage) and are mockingly/ironically deploying the term to diminish and demean the people who might have once earnestly used the descriptor.
I'm honestly really surprised how often this sort of ugly, antisocial, and dismissive discourse tends to pop up here, of all places, a site dedicated to enjoying the music of John Williams, but hopefully this might help a few people out? I don't know. But there are lots of ways - more constructive ways, as more than a few posters here have shown - to engage with how poorly thought-out and badly written this thinkpiece at the Post is than to indulge in... whatever all the rest of this ugly stuff is.
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40 minutes ago, Edmilson said:
I'm actually curious to see what Romer delivered that made them fire him. Was it so "out there" and "off putting" for an action spy movie? But Romer doesn't seem the kind of guy that would deliver a very experimental score right when he get the biggest chance on his career - or is he?
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R.I.P. Kobe Bryant, for whom JW wrote Dear Basketball
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His daughter too. This heart breaking.