Eric_JWFAN
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It's simple, but I will always love Remembering Childhood.
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Happy 77th Maestro!
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No, but they are playing a modernized version (Complete with a drum beat and electric guitars) of Williams' theme that sounds like crap.
Yes it was very crappy and disappointing.
I was also disappointed there was no live orchestra for the national anthem. The arrangement was interesting, but I don't know how you use a karaoke track for the Super Bowl.
The same way you use one for an inauguration.
Yeah. The only thing worse would be if they had a full orchestra there air-playing their instruments.
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No, but they are playing a modernized version (Complete with a drum beat and electric guitars) of Williams' theme that sounds like crap.
Yes it was very crappy and disappointing.
I was also disappointed there was no live orchestra for the national anthem. The arrangement was interesting, but I don't know how you use a karaoke track for the Super Bowl.
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NBC has the Super Bowl tomorrow. Did Williams write something special for this or will they just use his regular Sunday Night Football music? Or perhaps go with an entirely different package by someone else? The Williams one doesn't quite sound grand enough for a Super Bowl but that's just my opinion.
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Call me crazy, but there's something eerily powerful about this scene without music. You almost appreciate the true danger of it even more. JW has chosen to use silence over sound in odd spots a number of times in his career, and I could easily see this being one of them. The bare pairing of the rolling boulder and Indy's panting make it almost more intense.
I see your point, but wouldn't that have made this scene too climactic for so early in the movie? Perhaps if there hadn't been music during The Miracle of the Ark it would have been more intense.... oh wait, the music MAKES that scene!
Good point, yes the super-intense moments that are done without music are usually pivotal moments near the end (i.e. Jurassic Park, Star Wars IV) and it would definitely feel weird to have this opening scene left unscored now that I think about it.
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Call me crazy, but there's something eerily powerful about this scene without music. You almost appreciate the true danger of it even more. JW has chosen to use silence over sound in odd spots a number of times in his career, and I could easily see this being one of them. The bare pairing of the rolling boulder and Indy's panting make it almost more intense.
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all he's ever used on his films are 2nd rate British composers.
Uh...
Well Rachel Portman is good, but the others?
His track record seems more like a concerted effort to avoid American composers and give his British friends work. That's perfectly acceptable, but don't say Williams is incapable of changing with the franchise. That's just ignorant and completely disrespectful.
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I'm chiming in late here (wow this thread blew up in less than a day)...
How can I simplify this without being controversial... is it possible Newell, a proud Brit, just doesn't want to give even more opportunity/success to American composers? He seems bitter and jealous, all he's ever used on his films are 2nd rate British composers. The manner in which he condescends and simplifies Williams' ability is both alarming and head-scratching.
This is a great find (thanks). Newell just lost a lot of credibility, and my respect to go along with it.
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Are we talking 8 notes or 8th notes?
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What level of media attention do you expect it to receive? Will it be a little blurb at the bottom of Yahoo news, or will it be comparable to the passing of, say, Charlton Heston and be on the front page of CNN with numerous articles in the days following and significant air time on television? Sometimes I get so busy with day to day things that I am completely isolated from news and media reports. I remember when Oscar Peterson passed away and I didn't find out about it until like a month later because it wasn't front page stuff. Peterson was one of my idols and I didn't know until a month later.
Sorry for the morbid topic.
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Great, thanks!
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Instant classic:
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It's been two years and I've been patient with this music in hopes it would "grow" on me, but it just never did. NBC... Football... John Williams... it could have been and should have been quintessential John Williams. It should have been a theme that I'd look forward to hearing live every Sunday night just like Amazing Stories. But instead we get one of JW's most shockingly uninspired and punchless pieces. So sad...
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Tell me this wasn't stolen, errr.... INSPIRED by the Hook overture?
Love the bit from :21 to :28
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I have a feeling John Williams is going to lose....
They'll keep a number of choices, and I bet John Williams will be on there regardless of the surveys. They need to have at least one choice that is non-rock. Also, the coaster is Hollywood themed and none of the choices sound more Hollywood than Williams.
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New roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida will allow guests to choose their own soundtrack during the ride, and apparently JW could be one of the choices.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/business_...al-choices.html
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Gustavo Santaolalla of course.
Can't believe I forgot to include him!
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Sorry was just bored.
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The first one that comes up in this search (ypg-635) I just bought a couple months ago, and it is quite good for the price. Very good weighted action and while the piano sample is not going to rival one of those 10 gig virtual software synths, it's still about as good as you'll find in an 88-key keyboard for under a grand.
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How about this one? http://www.musick8kids.com/html/piggygame.tpl
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If you consider all 6 Star Wars scores (including source music and music that was not included or rewritten), I believe it would be the longest film score ever written.
True, and it would be entirely non-repetitive, whereas the NYC documentary probably only has about 30 minutes of material repeated over and over again. But I just found it interesting how it's completely uninterrupted. There's literally no breaks of more than 2 seconds.
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Not sure if this would qualify, but I am watching the great PBS documentary on New York (about 15 hours) and it is absolutely 100% accompanied by music. It's not the most complex music and it repeats a ton, but it's pretty much 15 hours of uninterrupted music. Actually it's quite a nice score by Brian Keane with a lot of acoustic guitar and string orchestra.
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I just got back from a screening of The Dark Knight. My how this franchise has changed in the last twenty years. What a dark movie. Overall I thought it was very good, but not terrific and definitely a little too long. But they should just go ahead and give Ledger the AA posthumously, he was just.. perfect.
Also, why the need for two composers? I never understood that.
To those who can read music, what does this mean?
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Yes Datameister is correct. A tremolo, and it's kind of a shorthand way of writing it. See Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, they're all over the first movement.