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I have always felt that JW track titles are more of a suggestion of what scenes the music might accompany in the film, but just a suggestion.
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Although a rarity, from time to time, JW has written music to score the trailer to films he's worked on. Other times, his music for the film is used in the trailer for said film. What do you consider to be the best and worst of the bunch?
Not at all a hot take, the best has to be the HP1 teaser trailer:
For me, runner up would be Nixon, the music truly does capture "the turbulent years":
What are your picks? Which are the worst?
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Awesome! This is another dream come true in the growing field of exploring JW's musical genius.
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This is an awesome project. The ET track sounds nice. I love interesting new arrangements of JW music.
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I think your best chance at seeing John Williams live in concert was to fly to Japan for his last concert there. If he was going to perform in China he would have done so on the same trip that took him to Japan.
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4 hours ago, crocodile said:
Which version are you listening two. The original brass, wind and percussion? Or the adaptation for the full symphony orchestra?
Karol
I was listening to the album by the Amsterdam Wind Orchestra.
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I would definitely add some pieces by Shiro Sagisu, perhaps most well known for composing all the Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes and movies. He also did a great job with Shin Godzilla.
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I never knew this existed! Listening now. Very interesting to hear different musical interpretations of Gandalf and Gollum.
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17 hours ago, GerateWohl said:
I like Irina's Theme a lot. By modern Hollywood standards the melody linie is probably three times as log as the average modern love theme. And it perectly fits the musical Indiana Jones family. Helena's Theme is the foundation of the whole DoD score. Irina's Theme just appears in a few scene's where Irina appears. Therefore, of course Helena's Theme is far superior. But Irina's Theme does the job perfectly as a theme for a 50s Russian female secret agent. I don't like the term femme fatal in context of Irina, as a femme fatal is supposed to be secutvive and bringing men to ruin by making them fall in love with her. But that's not the case at all with Irina.
I'm pretty sure JW himself thought of Irina's theme as a noir, femme fatale theme, something sexy, dark, and sensual (his own words) even if it doesn't fully fit her role in the film. I think her theme reflects those qualities.
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I like the orchestrations and the mood/atmosphere of the piece. I think it makes use of a sax for a good bit. But the melody itself is a little too repetitive and kind of goes nowhere, not a lot of melodic development. In terms of a femme fatale golden age theme, I think Helena's theme is far better.
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I wonder if those concert arrangements are basically what we hear in most of the prologue track.
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I would have given it to Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron which did win for animated film score, but I think also deserves overall score of the year.
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I'm interested in hearing the performance of The Rebellion is Reborn. I wish something from TROS would be played in concert conducted by JW.
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Rey's theme played on piano by JW himself no less!
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Gordy is the go-to video game composer for a JW soundalike. If the music played under the featurette is his music, then he's done a very good job.
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11 hours ago, Bayesian said:
Has this breathtakingly impactful moment been discussed yet? I'm talking about the devastating piano at 4:20, but you really need to watch the whole buildup to that moment to get the proper impact. I was watching A.I. on Paramount+ and that moment hits like a gut punch.
One of my favorite musical moments from the score. So dark and powerful.
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The SE release sounds good awful and others have already explained why. That said, the orchestrations for ROTJ are really cool, especially the use of choir and synth towards the end.
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I'm surprised this isn't on the JWFan front page.
Williams at the BMI 2024 Gala Celebration
in JOHN WILLIAMS
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It's still jarring any time I see a pic of JW without his black turtleneck even though he wears suit and tie all the time when conducting.