Cerebral Cortex

The Blu-Ray back cover has been updated:
 

Throughout the years posting on JWFan I've found that there is a certain hierarchy of posting that always persists, with various members rotating in and out to fill out vacancies.  Contrarian "voice of reason" posters, historians/compilers, funny guys, poll-makers, and goblins.  

The question is -- what John Williams score did he listen to? My bet is on JOHN GOLDFARB PLEASE COME HOME.

I probabely will double dip:

Not sure if intentional or typo, but I'm going to keep using that.

Well yeah, that is the thing I especially don't want is for this thing to be stacked with actors who starred in John Williams movies but actually had little or nothing to do with his work or even knowing him very well as a person, like the AFI Lifetime Achievement award ceremony. I love Mark Hamill and his enthusiasm but I don't need him talking about how amazing it was to hear Star Wars for the first time. But good odds he'll be in here to tell me again!
 
The interviewees I want to hear from regarding his film work are directors, editors, mixers, orchestrators, of course the musicians themselves. Many of these people are gone but not all, and there are always archival interviews. I would be more impressed if the lineup looked more like The Legacy of John Williams podcast guestlist than the casts of his movies. It shouldn't be that weird! A WWII documentary would be filled with first-hand accounts from absolutely nobody you've ever heard of yet movie-related documentaries can often use famous actors as a crutch.
 
Milquetoast music documentaries are the same way which can end up with vague analysis of the end results and its legacy, when you really want to know what makes someone tick and how the sausage is made. That's what was so miraculous about the Get Back documentary. There was a great tweet saying the awful, ultra-slick version of it would have had the footage interrupted frequently with shit like Dave Grohl saying "Without The Beatles, there would have been no Nirvana." 
 
The bottom line about wanting this to be about process is not to uncover exactly how his mind works when he's writing music, because that's impossible, but there are things we can observe about how he works as a creative professional, especially him on the podium at sessions or at the mixing board or if Spielberg ever filmed him playing and talking through themes on piano. I would also love if they just interviewed him about his music AT the piano. Then he's not just sitting there saying "Dun dun dun dun" or talking about chords, he can demonstrate what he's talking about, that would be fantastic too. Just putting him against a black screen describing music to me, less interesting. I've seen it before. 
 
The other trap this documentary can fall into in covering his entire life is to be so broad that it lacks specificity. Not just skimming over areas of his career but also generalizing his personality. That's what actually sucks about ass-kissing and saying "He's so nice." I'm sure it's true that he's nice, tell me why he's nice! I've never met the man, he seems very nice. But other than just watching him for myself in interviews I don't have that many real anecdotes about why people have unanimously come to think he's so damn nice lol. So if this documentary ends up telling me over and over how this man is so nice, or smart, or charming, then please load it up with actual stories. 
 
But of course there's more to the guy than that. It doesn't mean there's a scandal waiting to happen (better not be) but stories like Lukas Kendall asking Williams if he ever "geeked out" on anything as a kid like soundtracks and movies, and Williams witheringly replied "Girls." There have to be millions of stories like that which aren't necessarily him being "nice" but shade different sides of him in interesting and funny ways we've never heard. I'm sure they'll have a few nuggets from his family. 

Wait, what?

I hear this all the time, but it’s not really true that people in general are getting more sensitive. They are getting better at voicing their feelings and their needs. Western societies in general are also just doing a better job of understanding various viewpoints and respecting some of them. That said, I have no sympathy for the people who get upset when fascism is called out. Fuck ‘em. Indy had the right approach for dealing with Nazis.

I know, it's crazy that we're 8 weeks away from another hour of new John Williams Indiana Jones music!

King Mark was having an optimistic moment, don't ruin it!

I see that Empire Magazine tweeted about the isolated score :
 

 
And I had to chuckle at this reply:
 

 
Don't EVEN go there, random internet person. If only it were that simple.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Reckoning 

Man, if only there was a way to give you different emojis to the same post
 
 

 
 

Like HunterTech said, it wasn't a mistake on their end. Disney quickly pulled the intended 4K re-release at the last minute and decided to repack the original discs instead, for some unknown reason. Those 4K discs with the isolated score did however end up in the big 9-film boxset.
 
 
I've been waiting months for a reason to post this...
 

I can't wait to listen to the entire airport / portal / Syracuse section.

I think it might have more to do with Abrams being a "I want the audience to be transported into the movie" type person, keep everything mysterious, and Johnson and Mangold might be more into giving away the secrets, let people enjoy how it's made. 

the macguffin ending is almost worth the mediocrity and non-fun inbetween.  It's not a fun movie, unfortunately.
 
also....that cover art is absolute butt cheeks.  wtf is Ford's expression??????

I love when this place is given a reason to celebrate. 

You're damn right I will!

Wow, that's a hot take.
 
I think TFA and TROS are the 2 best scores out of the 4.

Now that both The Last Jedi and The Dial of Destiny have these isolated score tracks, it makes it even more strange that The Force Awakens and The Rise Of Skywalker did not.

SCORE ONLY VERSION!!!
https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/101023-0700