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This thread depresses me. I studied musical theory and piano for eight years at school and yet couldn't sight-read to save my life. I had to learn pieces through constant repetition. Music is one of the great joys of my life and yet I can't compose or play a thing.

Rowing term.

More time spent at the refinery ... James Horner.
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Rowing term.

This thread depresses me. I studied musical theory and piano for eight years at school and yet couldn't sight-read to save my life. I had to learn pieces through constant repetition. Music is one of the great joys of my life and yet I can't compose or play a thing.

I'm gonna have to listen to this at one point, as horrible as I found the movie.

Rowing term.

Again, not really that important. Using quotes around things is a useful tool for many things -- that the word is not meant in a literal sense, or that the meaning is kinda vague. It's a linguistic shortcut that I often use on messageboards, in cases where I don't feel like elaborating a lot, but getting close enough to get the point across. So for animated "scene", that could mean everything you can put into that category, from not watching a lot of animated films, the particular style that is associated with it (lots of mickey-mousing, for example). I general, things about animated films I don't follow. If I had written it without quotes, it could potentially mean a particular scene somewhere, and people could ask "what scene are you talking about?". I don't know if that made it any clearer, but anyways.

Ugh. I'm one of the few people in the world who wishes Powell did less animated films. I know, per his own words, he's all about "nice things and kumbayah my lord" these days and steers away from a lot of serious live action pics (that he did the last BOURNE film seemed more out of obligation, and was consequently uninspired). That is his right, of course, but I want him to get back to things like ENDURANCE. Serious pics that allow a rich, more layered musical pallette. Scores that are neither whimsical animated affairs nor static, vacous things like DON'T WORRY DARLING or LOCKED DOWN.
 
But yes, I know I'm the odd one out here.

My physical copy arrived today from Quartet!
 
I was surprised to see its a digipak, not in a jewel case

Every John Barry score is a major John Barry score 

@12-Mile Reef Yes, it was a project I couldn't resist.
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why'd it have to be a digipak?
 

I think that, the more you listen to the full cue as Williams intended it to be heard, the more you will appreciate the inclusion of the short passage that Spielberg didn't use.  It's how you get from the end of the action, to Peter seeing that his kids just want to go home, and he has to immediately leave everyone in Neverland behind.

Yeah it really picks up on the sentiment of nostalgia for childhood when you see it as a grown adult.
 
that is why I like the childhood song so much.

It's kind of weird. I came across an IndieWire article where Jackson says FotR was finished photochemically (misquoted as a "photo mechanical" process). Yet there's a feature in the Appendices on digital grading where they're shown at work on the Moria sequence. It's also mentioned in the audio commentary on the FotR EE that they were able to turn Boromir's face from his usual skin tone to grey as he dies - something that would have been impossible with traditional finishing. So I wonder if Jackson is remembering things correctly there.
 
If I recall correctly, they redid the grading for the Blu-ray releases. But then somehow FotR ended up looking wildly different depending on whether you were watching the TC or the EE.
 
Now there's a new version for the 4K release. It's supposed to be the final look, but it seems there was a slight revisionist approach to it, as Jackson has gone on record saying he wanted The Lord of the Rings to look more like it was shot  "today". Or more specifically, around the same time as The Hobbit, bringing a visual continuity to all six films. I've never understood this. If he wanted visual continuity across all six films, why the hell was The Hobbit even shot on a RED camera in 48fps to begin with? Shoot it on the same Super 35 stock you shot LotR on and you only have to worry about getting the DI to look similar, right?
 
Anyway.
 
I've watched the 4K versions of the EE's only once, streamed over Prime Video about two years ago. Revisionist or not, at the time I thought it looked pretty good for the most. The one thing that does really piss me off about the 4K version, though, is that godawful sepia wash over the brief flashbacks in TTT and RotK. What the fuck is that all about?

There was definitely more done to it than just the green tint. Faces and other subjects were highlighted in more specific ways in several scenes, for instance.

Also Hatching Baby Raptor. Manages to sound hauntingly beautiful yet unsettling at the same time. A perfect marriage of visuals and music.

Also Hatching Baby Raptor. Manages to sound hauntingly beautiful yet unsettling at the same time. A perfect marriage of visuals and music.

It's so strangely sad for a happy ending. It's a weird indescribable combination of emotions. 

The ending of Hook fills me with sadness for whatever reason and the chorus there definitely doesn't help haha. Its a great cue.

Coincidentally I was going to make a similar comment a few days ago about this same section. It's neat that we all seem to have had the exact same experience with the same piece... You have a hard time describing it, but everyone here knows precisely what you're talking about. Just Johnny's brilliance on display again!
 

Also Hatching Baby Raptor. Manages to sound hauntingly beautiful yet unsettling at the same time. A perfect marriage of visuals and music.

Also Hatching Baby Raptor. Manages to sound hauntingly beautiful yet unsettling at the same time. A perfect marriage of visuals and music.

I think JW did what he so often does when working off a temp track. He makes his music much more emotionally or narratively direct and gives the individual musical components a more interesting phrasing. Similar to The Immolation Scene from ROTS and the piece it is based on. JW heightens the emotions and speaks a little more directly.