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James

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  1. The Agony and The Ecstasy (1965) - Alex north and Jerry Goldsmtih I discovered in the middle of the album that the prelude suite was by Goldsmith!
  2. It's simple, they just copy the Zimmer material for live actions and in the animations they take Powell as reference.
  3. You have not missed much. He's good with animations, but nothing out of the ordinary for DW films.
  4. Google it. The father The mother The sisters (two only) Maybe there's something in their respective profiles on social networks, but I would not have the audacity to post them here. I do not even think I would have approved for doing that.
  5. The news is as exciting as his scores for "The Crown" and the latter "12 Strong". His work on Lego Batman is what still leaves a spark of hope. The music from the video looks like Dunkirk mixed with MI2.
  6. Perhaps. He made only a score for a Hungarian film last year. However, honestly, if this were the case, there would be no reason to raise the flag that he was fired. It would be easier to make it clear that he walked away from the films to deal with personal matters.
  7. Very sad. He was young, had children waiting for him, a career of prominence. May the family find solace.
  8. Zimmer has the "doubled french horn aka horn of the doom" as his "danger theme".
  9. Happy birthday, Maestro Williams! As always, we are the most happy for your gifted and blessed existence! I sent you the best wishes of health and long life! A virtual handshake!
  10. I do not doubt it. The man was Michael's producer! Now we just need to know who ordered the Kennedy's murder and whether Q actually dined with Ivanka.
  11. Here no one gives any fucking attention to these two, man! They are communists!
  12. Well, there's the anecdote of Williams himself! (Someone posted this video recently and I've watched it several times. This is good for health). 3:35
  13. You do not have to go that far to find pieces like these: "Yes!!! John Williams ripped off Holst and made big $$$ doing it. I wish Holst were around to get a huge piece of that action or at least to have left Williams laying prone in a puddle of his own blood." "John Williams is a plagiarist." "how to write like John Williams: steal stuff from any good composer from the romantic period to the Soviet era." "How to write like John Williams: Steal his score sheet and run like hell!" They are all in the videos of Beato. The best was about one guy saying that the 10 minutes of Beato video about Williams had much more content than the course of U$100 taught by Hans Zimmer. But unfortunately, I lost when I closed the window for the video.
  14. And then Horner, through all the courses he attended and all the diplomas he got, thought "okay, I'm also worthy to say that I created this."
  15. Well, I do not know how to express myself in technical terms, but Elfman has a quick, comic when appropriate, writing form. When you listen, open a smile and think: That's by Elfman! Desplat has, let's say, the blemish of always sounding very French and colorful. He uses everything he sees ahead in his scores. Horner reminds me of space (Star Trek, The Battle Beyond Stars, Alien, Apollo 13). He knows how to build a fantasy score like nobody else! You automatically expect the music from these movies to sound like something made by him. Zimmer has a heavy sound, sometimes confusing, because it mixes many instruments, and uses a lot of synthetics. However, the latter is a fact that, even criticized, still manages to keep his music a little fresh. Williams is complicated to describe without seeming too silly.. He is multifaceted and this becomes clearer as you go deeper into his discography. It has jazzy and western films, Steven Spielberg & George Lucas, Hitchcock... I listened last week and was amazed at his approach to Memoirs of a Geisha. So I leave the description to someone else.
  16. I do not believe that the mastery and experience that Williams presents will scare the directors and producers. He never seemed inflexible or we never knew from any situation of him with any director in which the two did not share the same intentions about music as we heard of Goldsmith (Ridley Scott), Horner (Terrence Malick) and many others composers out there. It's a matter of choice. Williams could work with directors and producers with limited vision, but he chooses to work with those who admire his work.
  17. Well, it's a matter of respect to begin with. I think one or the other director has an interest in working with him, but with the spaces he takes from one project to another and the fact that he has worked primarily in Spielberg and SW films, it makes these people a bit intimidated to make him an invitation. Age is the main factor. A man in his 80s can not get involved in stressful projects like the ones we see in recent years (with so many editions and changes of directors, composers and producers). After all, we all know that this is the cause of the decline in the quality of film music, put the quantity, speed of delivery, homogenization of sound, before the quality. "Oh, but Ennio composes music as a talented boy who scribbles drawings on his notebooks in Europe!" You're right. IN EUROPE.
  18. I'm wrong about Kraemer. However, on JW situation, we can say that here is one of those cases where "Bad Robot joined the Williams project" and not "Williams was hired by the JJ company."
  19. So many attacks in a single trailer also is not a positive sign. Missing the time when a glass with water vibrating was the sufficent. At least Claire is wearing boots!
  20. Post doubled! Why so much mystery? Does Lalo Schifrin personally come from Argentina to make the soundtrack? Edit: I posted the video along with Jay. I deleted it and made this comment.
  21. First time I watched a Star Wars trailer that, at first glance, does not look like Star Wars. They started well...
  22. Well remembered! Bad Robot is usually meticulous in the choice of its composers.They idolize Spielberg and Williams. So far only Bear McCreary, Giacchino and Kraemer have made more than one movie with them.
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