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He's a very talented composer and very obsessed with creating catchy themes regardless of the genre. There was some film me did in the 80's (can't remember what it was) but it was all experimental and atonal but full of conceptual ideas which were sort of themes.

This book looks great! Love the photos and how indepth it seems to be. Now trying to decide which format to get. I assume if you buy the hard cover, you don't automatically get Kindle which I usually read from these days?

There are many Boult Planet's recordings and not all are of equal quality.

He looks great! I look older than him and I'm a few decades younger. We're also not used to seeing him without glasses, but if you imagine him with glasses, it's what he's looked like for many years.

Nice tribute piece with some nice Williamsisms.

I thought this was a fantastic score! I watched the film after being so moved by the score. Good film, Excellent score!

I think I might need to revisit this film. After watching this youtube video, I learned so much about how this was Kubrick's passion project and how Spielberg tried so hard to stay true to the ideas he had. I always knew this originated with Kubrick but didn't realize it was HIS idea for the overtly sentimental ending that some (me included) found out of place. I also didn't realize that Kubrick sought help from master visionary Arthur C. Clarke to help him realize this before going to Spielberg. To me, Arthur C. Clarke/Kubrick's collaboration on 2001 was the pinnacle science fiction film ever made so I could only dream of what might have happened with a Kubrick/Clarke A.I., but I've since realized their perfect chemistry on 2001 would have doomed A.I., and the perfect collaboration was indeed Kubrick/Spielberg.

Denis Villeneuve is attached to that but it's a few years out. As for me, I think they should remake Contact. The film has some lousy aspects that the book is better at. I really hate that Ellie makes it to another planet just to meet an image of her dead dad that says go back now.

I agree with your take. I heard much quite negative comments about him personally but don't think people knew he suffered from autism which explains quite a lot of his poor social skills. Stuff that would come across as very arrogant like him just walking away while someone he was speaking to was mid-sentence. Him firing people publicly - trying to make them look bad in front of their peers, lots of stuff like that which might have just been his autism.

Do you pay for the spotify account? The free version is compressed which is fine for pop music that makes up 99.999% of their market but noticeable with high fidelity acoustic music.

I am reading. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari is the dense book I mentioned earlier that would be a good candidate for audiobook I think. I like it a lot, just that it is alot of detail that is rich so reading a page feels like you've read 10 pages so it's slow going but very good.

My exact thoughts...how is this not a movie? I think YA is the one genre I never got in to.

Yes, I read all the time. Some are books I've already read and love so much I'm re-reading. Some are on AI which is super interesting. Some will take a long while because they are dense. I've even read a book I hated...because I didn't know I'd hate it till I read it.

I am reading about twenty books right now but one I just can't put down is The Wager. It's about the true story in the south sea of shipwreck, mutiny, marooned, sickness, survival against incredible odds, and the trial when they returned to England. Interestingly, the captain who they mutinied against and his helmsman managed to build a boat from their wreckage and survived as well. There were lots of countries in that part of the world (South America) that hated the British in this time, so would have been captured had they landed on the wrong coast. https://www.amazon.com/Wager-Tale-Shipwreck-Mutiny-Murder/dp/0385534264

This one is full of juicy horn/brass countermelodies.

That was actually a very good explanation. I miss his creative involvement in Star Wars universe.

I love that one! I never saw the film but think the score is very good.

Mine was Star Wars and Close Encounters suite by Zubin Mehta/Los Angeles Philharmonic. I thought it was the OST than was greatly surprised there was a two LP album of the original soundtrack, but that might have been a year later.

Do any of you here create games too? Here are some screens from a top down side scroller I created many years ago. I was obsessed with games back then so took a class on programming them.

That's really cool! Thanks for posting. I go to Mt. Wilson observatory with my astro club too so nice that she'll play at that historic venue!

I thought this was cool! Hayden Christensen and Samual L Jackson were unannounced guests at yesterday's 20th Anniversary screening of Revenge of the Sith just up the road from me. AQMgK687lEsX36ieklBB8sakhl1cFBdDwXJ-hhhTiRAjxhHa5TJbbzRW3sVHw3u2M9Wkjk_23K6fDGlYUpjPjGmM.mp4 AQPSH2EhjTkz64i5bUi5-XnpHoK6I7hBbxz2A6kSTAXLgJnC9YFYXa1DtKXYw1OzxkokiqY3DTjQAVSLCh0w4qVi.mp4 AQNvEDkF4RFO7WoL-mNgePr5E9VPzGn-uvxCY128gHOeVnMQiCD7qGzen5SgoTSQztCJN3w-2JJpgiUijf6Tv6To.mp4 AQMDCa9kz7Y3sauB5hjMNBUFyVw9Ig7PkXCA4XF5ZLJ3m6lptm523MueIV-HOamQGit_HNuM9fUeS7s0UhvgH3Id.mp4

He didn't really care for the blockbuster business - it didn't suit him well. He would often miss deadlines, etc., and got the reputation of being sort of unreliable. I think he was also an alcoholic at the time and seems to be in a much better place doing projects he cares about without interest in the business.

I like the Men of the Yorktown horn counter melody.

For some. I happen to love orchestration. Sure, it can sometimes be frustrating like when you are orchestrating for a composer who isn't clear on what they want so you do what can work but get very specific notes of how they want it to sound that wasn't clear before. For example, if you get a melody and chord symbols, you have so, so many ways you can interpret it. But then get lots of notes about "hold the double bass till bar 39 but take out cello on 38, raise the viola's second note, make the trumpets sound like fanfares, etc.). In that example, none of the details were in the sketch so they are relying on more interpretation from the orchestrator and that can be frustrating if then they have very specific requirements. At its best, the composer sees you as a qualified composer who is an expert at orchestrating, and you are a partner in a collaboration for creating something special. I've been on those gigs, and they are wonderful. Some see it as part of composition (like Bernard Herrmann thought this way and I'd say JW does too). Others compose more in sketches then do a pass at orchestrating or hand it off to a specialist. This is more common for those with a pop/rock background. One can think of it as editing. You can edit as you write but you still need to re-edit in a different way once everything is done. What worked for a scene might not be as valid when seen in a whole.

Well, so just listen to any of the Wagner/Stokowski arrangements if you want Wagner more like a symphonic poem. They are very, very good. This is an excellent 1 hour reduction of the 14 hours of the Ring. So now you're kind of in the Richard Strauss symphonic poem territory. Opera is truly unique as it combines multiple expressive devices over the course of such long a duration. I saw the 14 hour ring (across four nights) and by the end of it, I felt such a sense of catharsis, I was a puddle of tears. Many operas are that impactful - Doctor Atomic was fantastic as well. But if it's the singing you can't stand, there are different styles of opera. Obviously Wagner is a specific, shall we say Valkyrie style, then you might like Russian style like Mussorgsky or Rimsky-Korsakov better.