Van_Etten

The world was a bleak, dark place: mass starvation, murder, rape, confinement camps, genocide, and worst of all, no expanded Star Wars soundtracks.  Never forget and never again.  

David Lynch! 
 
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

There is no fourth Matrix movie. 

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Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

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Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

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Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

https://parkavecds.com/UPC/888072627321
 
Turns out it's just a shorter 25th anniversary album

For the record, I'm not talking about how George Lucas talks about the Jedi, I'm talking about how its clear George Lucas feels about the Jedi from what he put on film.
 
And its clear to me that George Lucas - the George Lucas that's actually there behind the camera - does not think that the Jedi are flawed, hubristic, or wrong in their general view of the world. He thinks they are right: they forbid attachment, and its precisely attachment that leads to Anakin's downfall. They forbid possessiveness (nevermind how twisted it is that to seek to stop the person you love from dying is at all possessive) and its Anakin's "possessiveness" that leads to his downfall.
 
I feel like Luke finding success in going against the wishes of Obi Wan in Return of the Jedi, or even Qui-Gon defying the council in Episode I hardly diminish this. This has almost entirely to do with Episodes II-III and for that purpose they should be seen in isolation.

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I can't believe I'm bothering to answer someone who thinks First Contact is a bad Star Trek film, but...
 
"The Jedi aren't allowed to have crazy ranges of emotion."
 
This whole thing is a good read, but I've highlighted the salient information. We see Jedi express a broad range of emotions throughout the films, but many people confuse emotional regulation with emotional suppression, and assume the Jedi don't feel at all. This is inaccurate, as watching the films demonstrates.
 
"Use the force to make a force baby to take down the Jedi because of prophecy nonsense."
 
The prophecy was to bring balance to the Force, not defeat the Jedi, and no, defeating the Jedi does not bring balance to the Force. It isn't about numbers vs numbers. It's more like getting rid of an illness. The illness is the dark side.
 
"The Jedi can't get all gay, because the Jedi can't be loved"...."celibacy doesn't mean a lack of attraction."
 
Jedi aren't celibate. There's a whole arc in TCW dealing with Obi-Wan's past relationship with Satine Kryze of Mandalore. The central plot of the prequels is about Padme and Anakin. Jedi can, and demonstrably do, love and can be loved by others. What they can't do, and continue being a Jedi, is form lasting attachments.
 
None of this would matter really, except that RLM have built so much of their criticism for the prequels out of this sort of faulty reading and fact checking, and have hoodwinked a whole generation of YouTube users into thinking this stuff is good, thoughtful analysis.
 
Having an aesthetic dislike of the prequels is fine by me. They are heavily stylized, and not for everyone, and I don't mind if people find the philosophies expressed in the films distasteful, but if we're going to criticize the characteristics and actions of the characters, the contrivances of the plot, or the quality of the world-building, let's criticize what's actually there, not what we think is there.

Fixed.

Curious if there will be a live recording of this for everyone to hear or even new bluray home release. Abel Korzeniowski's score didn't make it so far.

Cannes released a long press kit for the film, which also features Osvaldo Golijov talking about the score.
https://cdn-medias.festival-cannes.com/uploads/2024/05/174074.pdf

Soooo... Giacchino here we go?

Soooo... Giacchino here we go?

I personally have a soft spot for the Hooper scores (equal with Doyle, just below Desplat). I have made a summary list of themes/motifs/ideas I have been able to identity from the OSTs of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, and feel a complete expansion of both would reveal even more motific ideas and connections. I hope this list might prove helpful to anyone who wants to do a deeper dive into Hooper's music. Anything with question marks (???) next to it indicates I'm not 100% confident in my observation.
 

POSSESSION THEME (this theme is particularly tricky to identify as it doesn't have one distinct setting, but consists of a gradual rising and falling shapes, often played by low strings)
- POSSESSION: 0:42-end
- HALL OF PROPHECY: 2:52-end (rapid variation in strings)
- THE SIRIUS DECEPTION: 0:00-0:54
- DARKNESS TAKES OVER: 0:00-0:25???
- DUMBLEDORE’S SPEECH: 0:31-1:20
- INTO THE PENSIEVE: 0:46-1:22
- DUMBLEDORE’S FOREBODING: 0:31-END
- JOURNEY TO THE CAVE: 0:38-1:34??? (rapid variation in strings); 1:34-2:08??? (possible melodic variation)
- THE DRINK OF DESPAIR: 0:33-end
- INFERI IN THE FIRESTORM: 1:07-1:35
- THE KILLING OF DUMBLEDORE: 0:41-2:45
 
IN NOCTEM (DUMBLEDORE THEME):
- OPENING: 0:25-1:14 (tragic setting)
- IN NOCTEM
- DUMBLEDORE’S SPEECH
- DUMBLEDORE’S FOREBODING
- JOURNEY TO THE CAVE: 0:50-1:28
- DUMBLEDORE’S FAREWELL (tragic setting)
 
UMBRIDGE THEME:
- PROFESSOR UMBRIDGE: 0:09-1:51
- UMBRIDGE SPOILS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING: 0:26-end
- DARKNESS TAKES OVER: 1:01-1:30
 
DEATH EATER MOTIF:
- OPENING: 1:49-end
- MALFOY’S MISSION: 1:03-1:19
- INTO THE RUSHES: 0:36-1:56
 
FRIENDSHIP MOTIF???:
- GINNY: 0:00-0:30
- HARRY AND HERMIONE: 0:29-end
- INTO THE RUSHES: 1:57-end
 
HERMIONE MOTIF???:
- HARRY AND HERMIONE: 0:00-0:28
- OF LOVE AND WAR: 0:34-end
 
HARRY AND DUMBLEDORE MOTIF???:
- JOURNEY TO THE CAVE: 0:00-0:38
- THE KILLING OF DUMBLEDORE: 0:00-0:27
 
WEASLEY SILLINESS MOTIF:
- FIREWORKS
- THE WEASLEY STOMP (variation/similar Irish-inspired idea)
 
JOHN WILLIAMS - HEDWIG’S THEME:
- ANOTHER STORY: 0:00-0:36; 2:00-2:12
- DEMENTORS IN THE UNDERPASS: 1:21-end??? (possible fragment)
- HALL OF PROPHECY: 0:53-1:16; 1:51-2:22??? (possible fragment)
- THE JOURNEY TO HOGWARTS: 0:03-0:30
- THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC: 2:11-2:35
- OPENING: 0:15-0:26; 1:34-1:45??? (possible fragment)
- GINNY: 0:36-0:57
 
JOHN WILLIAMS - QUIDDITCH MOTIF:
- RON’S VICTORY: 0:40-0:55; 1:18-1:24
- OF LOVE AND WAR: 0:06-0:13; 0:41-0:47

Look what I just bought!

Get yourself a stiff drink and pull up a chair... You're among friends here.
 

 
 

First cue released
 

Whatever instrument they use to make a “BWRAAAAAAAM”.