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  1. Hey, think of Air Force One! That one is a prime example of how such a thing can work. From listening to the music alone I could hardly tell what of it is Goldsmith and what of it is McNeely, and all of it is great! It all comes down to whether the "helping" composer has the skill to pull this off or not. Let's wait until the score comes out to judge it.

    -Chris

  2. On my "West Side Story" LP and "Independence Day" CD it reads "Original Soundtrack Recording"...

    On my "Far and Away" it reads "Music taken from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (Can't they make it any longer) ...

    "Armageddon" is quite Basic: "Armageddon - The Score"

    I think there's no defined standard as how to label which kind of soundtrack album, only some loose guidelines... You have to look at the track listings each time to be sure you get that what you want.

    -Chris

  3. Lets not forget the rip-off that struck me as most obvious in Willow, that shakuhachi theme... the beginning of it ripped directly from Bernstein (West Side Story, Finale), or from Wagner (Götterdämmerung, near the End), or Horner got it from Berstein got it from Wagner, you chose :)

    -Chris

  4. For a presentation in music class last year, where I did a project on John Williams, I created a Medley of occurances of the Force Theme from all 4 films (to that date) to showcase Williams's use of the Leitmotiv technique, so I picked several spots where the Force theme was presented in as different a guise as possible. If anyone's interested, I could make an mp3 of it :mrgreen:

    -Chris, who was very satisfied when he played first the Imperial March and then Anakin's theme to the class an heard some gasps at the end of the latter ;)

  5. Air Force One is my favorite pure action score of all scores I own :)

    With the tracks of the promo I found on the net (and some obviously ripped from DVD, worse sound quality, but 2 or 3 tracks of those are vital to the score) I have made a ~74min CD that is abslutely cool :)

    Ok, half of that (the promo tracks) are McNeely, but he succeeded very well in sounding like Goldsmith...

    I can also recommend "Under Fire", that score is very different to the typical Goldsmith stuff, with lots of South American sounds and a solo guitar, but it's gorgeous.

    -Chris

    :angry: Air Force One Expanded

  6. Ted - who thinks that the asteroid sequence didn't feel completely right and needed music also

    That would perhaps have diminished the cool effect of the seismic bombs, I think...

    As for the question "Did Williams compose anythin for the final battle", I believe this has been settled already (hasn't it?), since McCallum said there was 125minutes of music recorded, and Takis' analysis showing that ~124min. of new music are in the film. Correct me if I'm wrong.

    -Chris

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