Cerebral Cortex

Holy moly, Williams and Spielberg look like brothers in that pic. Williams looks incredible.

Imagine it's 2019 and someone told you this was a screenshot from the new Patrick Stewart Star Trek show.

Perhaps the closest we'll ever get to a Williams theme for an old Godzilla movie. Been stuck in my head for days.

Here you are, my friend.

What I'm not seeing talked about here is that Williams seemingly just name-dropped the official title for Indy 5! Discuss!

Not if they keep roping Williams back to it.

Yes, I loved both those bits as well! It's more like they just don't really acknowledge it outside of brief little dialogue blurbs. I actually think, at least so far, that one could jump straight into season 2 without having watched season 1 and not be too lost.

First episode has me cautiously optimistic. At the very least, I think it's a step in the right direction. Hoping they don't end up jumping the shark again.

I'd love to get Mark McKenzie if he's willing.

Was any previously unreleased music obtained from the release of Lego Lord of the Rings?

What a beautiful reason for Falstaft to dust off that musical catalogue once more! There is something I find genuinely so endearing about Williams, this very soft-spoken, private, and reserved man who deals in the traditional ways of pen and paper, being so protective over this massively loud space opera franchise of all things. Prior to the Disney ownership, I really wasn't sure how much Williams cared about his association to Star Wars, but the last few years have really helped to drill home that he really seems to hold such an association close to his heart. And now we can add new John Williams Star Wars music to the list. 2022 sure is feeling a lot like 2002. "Hmm, a theme for Obi-Wan, huh? Okay, um, let's see here... George had me shelve that theme for him back in '98. Damn, it's got to be here somewhere. Think, Johnny, think!"

Man, that pic is legendary. Immediately iconic. Feels like the pic all the history books will use.

That's a really interesting thought because, honestly, after reading this it makes me all the more surprised that he actually is choosing to do Indy V, but that actually makes some sense.

My God... Is... Is that... WILLIAMS?!

I thought about this a bit when I saw TROS in the theater. When the film ends, the credits roll, and the audience sees "Music by John Williams" unassumingly fade onto the screen, what were general audience members thinking when they saw that? By this point, he has been the defining musical sound to the childhoods of multiple generations. It almost seems a little unreal to see that credit. "Wait, is that really the same John Williams? He's still at it? There's no way." Some of you have already put to words the embodiment of my feelings for this man more succinctly and more poetically than I ever could. Instead, I will just say how fortunate I feel to live in an age of technology such as this where the love and appreciation for a singular man's life and work can act as the focal point from which the formation of a community as great as this can occur. The amount of times whereby I've been able to discuss film music in-person have been few and far between. To be able to come here and immediately be greeted with a mass of people who enjoy discussing film music, from generalized theory to the smallest bits of minutiae, is a true gift and privilege that still feels a bit unreal to me at times.

"The package is ready for pick-up in Vienna? Good, good. I'll schedule a sudden concert appearance as a cover. No one will suspect a thing. White Wolf out."

Spielberg's most personal film wouldn't have felt complete without Williams. Fantastic news. Though it's in pretty whimsical terms, he recently mentioned in December of last year how he'd like to tackle a Western at some point:

Davis said the following in an inteview for Soundtrack.net regarding scoring the film: So it may just be as simple and mundane as Williams and Davis having the same agent who brought Davis up to Williams in conversation and Williams just went "okay" and that got pinned down as a personal recommendation from Williams.

no fucking way hahahaha what the hell

Not perfect 1-to-1s.

I feel shaken to my very core. Any sense of identity or purpose I once held within these forum walls is now in question. I've spent years clawing my way up the ranks only to now be replaced in minutes by a couple keystrokes. I am no longer the tool man. Now I am just a tool.

See, it's funny. Part of the reason I hold Gia's Yorktown theme in such high regard is because I feel it transcends being a competent surface-level theme and actually supplements the film emotionally (though I wish it was actually used more within it). I think I'd be quicker to agree with your location point were the location itself not representative of an idea. The Yorktown starbase is shown off as this idyllic utopian self-contained hub world where many different species of organisms are able to exist together in total harmony, in addition to being a technical marvel on an engineering level, and I think the theme nicely personifies musically those ideas of unity and peaceful co-existence in a way that isn't too on the nose.