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    What Has Happened To Howard Shore??

    in General Discussion

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    Lol your post is very passionate, I like it.

     

    My guess is that he doesn't need the work, and thus he only occasionally takes a scoring job. Also, the LotR scores are "old school" sounding, and it's obviously the right feel for that material, but a lot of modern projects don't demand that sound. In your superhero example, I don't imagine too many people want a LotR type sound when making a film like that.

     

    So probably Shore gets offered a good number of projects when someone actually wants the LotR type sound, and he probably only selects one here and there when the mood strikes him, kind of like John Williams working only with people he likes, franchises he's known for, and random pet projects like Book Thief.

     

    I'm surprised he isn't offered, and accepts, more scoring projects for art films, a la Desplat. Not sure why that is. I feel like his association with stuff like Silence of the Lambs or The Fly would make auteur filmmakers think of him.

    James Newton Howard thread

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    On that movie, on Batman Begins, we truly did co-write every cue together with the exception of the most famous cue, which he wrote, which is the two-note thing. Which is fabulous.

     

    So apparently that was a true collaboration, except for that one cue. Anyone know which one he means?

     

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    The Dark Knight was a little bit different. We did most of the writing in Los Angeles. His studio in L.A. is about 300 yards from my studio, it’s very close. We split up some of the assignments – he took The Joker and did such a crazy good job on that, I took Two-Face, and then we split up some of the action stuff. I did, predictably, maybe more the psychological stuff, but we went through it and it was great.

     

    This one seems like you would need hans-zimmer.com for. Maybe archive.org can help?

     

    https://collider.com/why-james-newton-howard-didnt-score-the-dark-knight-rises/

    Announcing 'SCORE MASTERS: Celebrating John Williams & Jerry Goldsmith' (Online Event premiering Feb 8, 2021)

    in JOHN WILLIAMS

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    I really enjoyed this podcast! It was cool to see the guests spark memories and anecdotes from each other, and it was so refreshing to hear a chat like this meant for true score fans. We don't always get to hear a John Williams discussion for grownups  :)  I loved hearing what he was like as a professional musician, from the perspective of other musicians, who spoke pretty candidly rather than just heaping praise on him. And it was indeed well produced, with the editing and well chosen photos. After the mention early on that the discussion would last an hour, I was pleased to see it actually ran 2 hours  ;)  I look forward to checking out some of your other podcasts!

    The Pixar Thread

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    2 minutes ago, The Illustrious Jerry said:

    I'd vastly prefer Marianelli, if possible. He can whip up a nice little Italian score no problem!

     

     

    Oooh yeah, good call. And if not, Francis Coppola can probably recommend a family member :lol:

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