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    Datameister got a reaction from Bayesian in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I was the dispatcher who took that call, and your voice sounded suspiciously like Hans Zimmer's …
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    Datameister got a reaction from ThePenitentMan1 in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I was the dispatcher who took that call, and your voice sounded suspiciously like Hans Zimmer's …
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    Datameister got a reaction from Brando in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I was the dispatcher who took that call, and your voice sounded suspiciously like Hans Zimmer's …
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    Datameister got a reaction from Manakin Skywalker in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I was the dispatcher who took that call, and your voice sounded suspiciously like Hans Zimmer's …
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    Datameister got a reaction from ZenLogic101 in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Interesting that you mention quality when I've done nothing of the sort. I just said Williams didn't write it, and an orchestra didn't record it. Plenty of great music out there fits that description.
     
    And yes, if you say you can't tell if this was Williams, I'd say you're not qualified to tell whether this was Williams.
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    Datameister got a reaction from JTN in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Yes. He wrote several trailer cues. One of them was used in the very first teaser. It's mostly non-thematic.
     
    @Amvanquish, you can boast and yell all you want, but it's immediately apparent from a single listen that JW didn't write this music. And good luck finding instrumentalists to comment, since it's also immediately apparent that it was mostly or completely produced with virtual instruments.
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    Datameister reacted to karelm in I F*CKING LOVE JOHN WILLIAMS AND I LOVE YOU   
    This can't be Stefan.  Stefan's post would have been filled with nonsense and quickly descended to a rant against Jay arguing about rules of the forum plus his post count would already be in the thousands.
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    Datameister got a reaction from WampaRat in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I love that video. I'll quibble a bit—I'm sure anyone involved in making these is very aware of the cliches. There are probably in-house terms for all of them. No one producing this stuff can possibly think they're trailblazing auteurs. (It's cool, I'm not a trailblazing auteur either.)
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    Datameister got a reaction from Score in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    It would be interesting to extrapolate forward. Given an infinite amount of time, eventually the human race would stumble upon a trailer format so irresistible that the entire population of the universe would show up. That would be peak trailer. (It would probably be unbearable, but it would work.)
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    Datameister got a reaction from Trope in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Y'know, on a second listen, there might be some real instruments in there. I was wrong. JW confirmed.
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    Datameister got a reaction from Bilbo in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Yes. He wrote several trailer cues. One of them was used in the very first teaser. It's mostly non-thematic.
     
    @Amvanquish, you can boast and yell all you want, but it's immediately apparent from a single listen that JW didn't write this music. And good luck finding instrumentalists to comment, since it's also immediately apparent that it was mostly or completely produced with virtual instruments.
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    Datameister got a reaction from Molly Weasley in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Aside from the silliness of this thread, this is a somewhat interesting conversation. I think the disconnect is the idea that a trailer should give a "bite-sized representation of what your film is actually like." For the folks making the trailers, I'm sure the only goal is to make people want to see the film. (Especially, but not exclusively, people who are more likely to enjoy the film.) So that becomes sort of a game of one-upmanship—whose trailer will be the most epic? hilarious? scary? dramatic? And part of that is the music. It's an arms race for the trailer tropes that most effectively entice the largest numbers of people into the theater. (Or onto the subscription streaming service, or whatever.) Any decent film composer knows you have to hold back in a lot of places to craft a score that really supports the film; any decent trailer music composer knows you have to keep up with the Joneses to keep getting work. Or in this case, you have to help the Joneses keep up with over-the-top adventure movie trailers everyone else is making. (I don't think they were successful with this one, but the proof will be in the box office pudding.)
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    Datameister got a reaction from Edmilson in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Y'know, on a second listen, there might be some real instruments in there. I was wrong. JW confirmed.
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    Datameister reacted to WampaRat in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Every trailer trope of the last 10 years was wonderfully combined in this Auralnauts video. Funny how the industry doesn’t realize it’s parodying itself now.
     
     
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    Datameister got a reaction from Manakin Skywalker in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Y'know, on a second listen, there might be some real instruments in there. I was wrong. JW confirmed.
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    Datameister got a reaction from Brando in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Y'know, on a second listen, there might be some real instruments in there. I was wrong. JW confirmed.
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    Datameister got a reaction from DarthDementous in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Aside from the silliness of this thread, this is a somewhat interesting conversation. I think the disconnect is the idea that a trailer should give a "bite-sized representation of what your film is actually like." For the folks making the trailers, I'm sure the only goal is to make people want to see the film. (Especially, but not exclusively, people who are more likely to enjoy the film.) So that becomes sort of a game of one-upmanship—whose trailer will be the most epic? hilarious? scary? dramatic? And part of that is the music. It's an arms race for the trailer tropes that most effectively entice the largest numbers of people into the theater. (Or onto the subscription streaming service, or whatever.) Any decent film composer knows you have to hold back in a lot of places to craft a score that really supports the film; any decent trailer music composer knows you have to keep up with the Joneses to keep getting work. Or in this case, you have to help the Joneses keep up with over-the-top adventure movie trailers everyone else is making. (I don't think they were successful with this one, but the proof will be in the box office pudding.)
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    Datameister reacted to DarthDementous in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I’ve never seen anyone try and pull a ‘don’t you know who I am?!’ over trailer music before but this is the thread that keeps on giving 
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    Datameister got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I think that's literally true. I enjoy some trailer music, but formulaic is the perfect word.
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    Datameister got a reaction from A. A. Ron in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)   
    The Dial Scene
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    Datameister reacted to Stark in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Epic trailer music is simply never by the original composer.
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    Datameister reacted to Romão in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Somethings are debatable. That Williams did not write this is not one of them. It's just too plain obvious
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    Datameister got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Yeah, there's some real troll energy to this thread, intentionally or otherwise.
     
    @Amvanquish if you truly started this thread with the expectation that no one but the composer reply, I'm not sure what to tell you. This is actually a fan site, so the fans tend to chat.
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    Datameister got a reaction from JTN in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Interesting that you mention quality when I've done nothing of the sort. I just said Williams didn't write it, and an orchestra didn't record it. Plenty of great music out there fits that description.
     
    And yes, if you say you can't tell if this was Williams, I'd say you're not qualified to tell whether this was Williams.
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    Datameister got a reaction from Trope in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    Yes. He wrote several trailer cues. One of them was used in the very first teaser. It's mostly non-thematic.
     
    @Amvanquish, you can boast and yell all you want, but it's immediately apparent from a single listen that JW didn't write this music. And good luck finding instrumentalists to comment, since it's also immediately apparent that it was mostly or completely produced with virtual instruments.
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