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It is actually extremely entertaining, audience friendly and crowd-pleasing. It is also 90 minutes. I think most everyone who watches it will enjoy it.

Last track seems to be the concert suite. No song this time.

How disappointing. I think this is the best way to render this theme.

Hurray!

Reviews out - decent notices. Good notices for Doyle's score too. https://www.slashfilm.com/757191/death-on-the-nile-review-a-mystery-that-floats-adrift-quickly/ https://deadline.com/video/death-on-the-nile-review-gal-gadot-kenneth-branagh/ https://theplaylist.net/death-on-the-nile-review-kenneth-branagh-gal-gadot-20220207/ https://www.btlnews.com/featured/death-on-the-nile-review-kenneth-branagh-gal-gadot/

Someone familiar with the score - can you point out to me all the instances/tracks in the score where the following motif appears on solo voice - I am just interested in the solo voice rendering like the one which begins 70 seconds into the track above.

It is not a news article. It is a PR piece so it is whatever the studio wants to say. And as per convention, it will always be present tense.

Casting announcements often lag 6 months to even a year after filming. Have you noticed how on the first day of filming they suddenly announce this this and this have joined the cast? Well they couldn't have joined the cast on the first day of shooting right. They obviously joined months ago. There is a weird PR logic to it all. Cast can't confirm they are in a movie unless it is in Deadline or Vareity or THR. These days stuff leaks a lot so you know pretty early on. And actors give away the game on SM too. But yes Lynch was probably cast a year ago. Before marketing begins a movie has no way to generate news - so they stagger our casting PR.

Literally the exact word I used when I heard it. The main theme - you could EASILY fool someone telling that this is a piece of classical music from the 1600-1800s. It sounds very refined and very well composed. Has a great presence in the film too. The film is scored with intelligence too. When we first see Diana - the theme is on solo piano. When there is a dramatic church scene - it is played on organs to bring an appropriately portentous feel. As someone said this is a cousin to Phantom Thread and this is indeed very good work.

It's dumb. Honestly streaming or digital music does not take effort. Even if they don't want to produce an album, like you said just dump what you recorded on streaming. Even minimal money made off those is some money.

I fear we will never hear something like this in a big mainstream movie ever again. The suits might say the music is too prominent, too distracting and calls too much attention to itself.

In fact he wrote infinitely more complex music when he wrote for supposedly simple films. See how this scene is scored - It is as textured, exuberant and complex as anything Williams wrote. This too - Where is this Gia?

The entire track is just one melody repeated over and over again. Even the middle part is the same melody just with additional accompaniment. This is the Riddler theme - a g# a C a# a g# a D# 9 notes. That's it. Repeated over and over and over again. He adds and subtracts accompaniment - but this is the theme. Maybe Reeve placed a limit on the number of notes per theme? Like it can only be extremely short, and extremely simple. Now mind you, simple can work. I think this track is similar in construction to The Stone by Williams for HP1. It is a simple short theme of repeated notes which is repeated through the track non stop. Though I would argue Williams did more with it. And had more variety and truly built it up in dread and menace. And had more interesting accompaniment. This might be a simpler track for Williams. But in the same score Williams also wrote some of his most complex music. And even this track in Williams version - is not simple. But you see where I am going with this? Gia is in the extreme "simplistic" territory now. His music is simply not complex anymore. It is kiiiiiiinda just dumb and your regular extreme banal blockbuster sound. I mean I have just heard it, so I don't want to have strong feelings about the track but I just wanted the highlight again the direction he's headed in.

I am guessing this is a practice session. No way they recorded it that way right?

Sadly I can't find anything.

Do you remember which show?

The tracklist can't come soon enough! I would be interested to see what themes are carried over. It might clarify some theme associations from the first score.

Great piece. When I was younger I was obsessed with it. I was like wholy crap - such a doozy melody - how god like gifted is Barry that he would just toss this out for a stupid establishing shot.

Columbus would get laughed out of the room if he pitched himself. The fact is if a two-part Cursed Child adaptation is made, it would be outrageously expensive - a combined budget of 350-400 mil wouldn't surprise me, and the combined gross of both films could be expected to top 2 billion. It isn't whether he has the skill - that's arguable. But could any rational set of suits trust him with a project so valuable. I think not.

He was never respected. This is how a top critic assessed his mis-en-scene for the first film -

His career has straight tanked since HP2 and that was like 2 decades ago. He's not getting near a 200 mil blockbuster anymore. He has made only 2 movies in the past decade, is not in demand, delivered bomb after bomb after Harry Potter and delivered a Razzie nominated film last time he worked with a big budget. He has been reduced to making things like The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two for Netflix. He's toast. This scene really shocked me in the theaters.

Blockbuster film-making is very very very very different from a passion project film-making. You need broad competence, reliability, pleasantness, collaborative nature, ability to work with execs and multiple people and capability to bring in the picture on time and on budget. It is not an unremarkable skill. Perhaps does not deliver great artistic masterworks - but does the needful, gets the job done, and provides a lot of the audiences with pleasure and lot of the stakeholders with profits. Yates has all of that. So he stays.

There is no earthly possibility of Chris Columbus getting the directing job on Cursed Child. None whatsover. Nada. Nil.

Williams scoring Cursed Child wouldn't make it any less terrible though sadly.

Oh it's coming. Just you wait. Let the cast age a bit more. It is guaranteed 100% going to happen.