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The Mandalorian and Grogu from the Paul Shipper poster. 

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I thought I was almost alone in thinking it's much better than the TDK.

My favourite Nolan film is The Dark Knight Rises.

I mean, his Batman is very James Bond-ish. It's the closest he ever go to do actual Bond.

To me all three Nolan Batmans are superb. I love them all.

He was recruited to help out with the re-shoots going on for Episode X.

These are the posts that originated it, to my knowledge:
 
deleted account = elvisjones, who Jay has vouched for before.

But also as you can see above Erik Woods disputes this account. I don't have any industry contacts so I couldn't tell you what's true and what isn't. 

The one major example I don't like is how everytime that the merest hint of pathos is called for in The Last Jedi, Williams plugs-in Binary Sunset verbatim. Must be half a dozen times if not more just in that movie alone. It gets so old, and there's way less of that in The Rise of Skywalker.
 
It's interesting because, other than cases like these, Williams doesn't really marry his themes too closely to a "signature" timbre or pitch level in the way that Wagner (or Weber; or Shore, for that matter) do. So these verbatim repetitions really do call attention to themselves, for good or ill.

It's the kind of thing YouTube and social media was made for, and while I think it's an absolute gift we have as much of this kind of B-roll footage as we've gotten through all the various personal and professional accounts, I wish we had even more! Oftentimes it's a clip of music being performed but I'd love more fly-on-the-wall of the actual rehearsal process.
 
But I also understand it might make people self-conscious to know they're being recorded while giving or receiving a note or adjustment, and that anything they say could end up online if somebody made a habit of posting stuff like that all the time for fans. It should be a judgment-free zone. But it'd just be cool to see how a whole cue is worked through at a John Williams session, rather than little snippets. 
 
 
Not entirely, but I still feel "The Rise of Skywalker" piece offers something Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith don't, which is a more overtly sentimental goodbye statement. The closest he came to that before was "Yub Nub" and "Victory Celebration" but neither of those are thematic. 

Top Gun 2 is in no way a replacement score. Lorne took over. Nuance. 

Hans & Harold worked on it basically for 3 years, but you know how it is with such big productions : there's a very short window during post production where things matter most. Because before that, the film keeps changing, what worked in cut 1 didn't in cut 13 etc. And when that "crucial" time came to lock the picture, Hans was not in capacity to complete it and asked Lorne to help.

Lorne took the score to the finish line with his team, taking whatever Harold and Hans & his team had done, lifting everything, adding new ideas, reprogramming and making it all fit the final cut.
 
Dunkirk was the same kind of thing, with Hans going on tour while the film was on its final days (even though the involvement was quite limited as the score was nearly finished by that point).

Transformers 5 was another similar case. When they decided to cut down 30 min of the film for the release and have everything fit 2h30, you can imagine a good chunk of the score had to be re-edited or simply redone to fit the new version. Which was big task to do in a very short amount of time, so Steve asked... Lorne for help.

It's probably a self-contained story, and won't dig into the lore of the show without some exposition to fill in the audience members who may not be well acquainted with it.

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It was also said to show how the first order rose to power.

Steven Spielberg: “Recently, I’ve loved the Dune movies. They are among my favourite science-fiction movies, not just recently, but of all time. Especially the second film. I think Part Two is the best movie Denis has ever made. I cannot wait to see the third one."
 
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/steven-spielberg-loves-dune-favourite-sci-fi-movies-exclusive/

We thought Lucas had gone insane with his film about taxation and blockades. Turns out its more realistic and relatable than any Star Wars movie.

Both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons are among my favorite Zimmer scores and a perfect counter-argument for people who say he doesn't write thematic or orchestral scores. I think they're usually under appreciated, and I feel a proper expansion would do them a lot of justice since the albums omit some great material specially in Angels & Demons. Inferno is the weak link of the trilogy, but even that one has still some nice bits, particularly with the new variations on the Science & Religion Theme.
 
As for Pirates 3, is not only my favorite of the saga, but one of my top 5 Zimmer scores and the original release also omits many great cues. It's just so much fun, orchestral, exciting, emotional and memorable from start to finish, and it's one of the scores that made me fall in love with film scores (well, the whole trilogy but I've grown to like this one the most).

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Maul's narrative purpose in Rebels was all about developing Ezra. Sure, he did Maul things, but in the end, it was about Ezra. It seems this show is doing the same thing with this new character. Maul works because it's not about him exactly, it's about who/what he'll wreck next (Anakin and Obi-Wan's trajectory, Mandalore, Ezra, almost Luke).
 
EDIT: I think Wagner Moura recorded for this show last year at least, probably two years ago.

More Project Hail Mary
 

 

 

 

“Baby Yoda” was a viral sensation 5 YEARS ago. To name the movie after the viral name everyone landed on back then would be a mistake, I think. 

Very late to the party, but I find it astounding that there are people who think this score isn't gonna be great. The fact he was hired this early and at all is a really good sign that this won't be temped to high heaven. The argument that Thomas Newman "doesn't do big orchestral scores." when we have Little Women, Cinderella Man, The Good German, and several cues from Finding Nemo and Wall-E proving otherwise. 

I'm happy it's not a lesser-Zimmer clone who is just gonna follow the temp, or a composer who is just gonna do a John Williams pastiche cause Shawn Levy and the studio said "Just do John Williams!" without further instruction. The talk of multiple themes for this movie also makes me very very very very happy. 

"Why can't it be James Newton Howard?" Relax, we still have a new trilogy on the way. Maybe he'll do that. 

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While reading the book I thought it'd be cool to create a playlist that would feature all of the music references mentioned in it ! From the song JW's mother used to sing to him to the songs his father played on, the pieces that influenced him, the sessions he played on, the songs he did the arrangements for, the live events and concerts he directed, the tv shows and movies he scored, it's (pretty much) all in there in chronological order.
I think it makes for a cool companion to the book 
 
 ➡️  John Williams - A Composer's Life || Music Playlist
 
 

I’m seeing The Empire Strikes Back in concert on Saturday!! Looking forward to it. This orchestra in Jacksonville did A New Hope last January, and I hope this is a sign they do Return of the Jedi next January.

I like listening to Cameron talk, because he's clarity itself.
 
Whenever I hear him talk, I don't hear a filmmaker in the more usual sense. I hear... a fighter jet pilot or an astronaut. Those kinds of super-goal-oriented, slightly-antisocial-burn-anyone-in-their-path-to-get-their-way/unless-you're-useful-to-me-you're-a-distraction, over-achieving alpha types.
 
Basically, Cameron is the kind of person that, had he picked any other avenue in life, he would have been the best at it. If he picked business, he would have been the top businessperson in the world. If he picked politics, he would have been...well, king of the world. He's just...that kind of guy.