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Once Abrams has the music in hand, the film will be edited
YUP.
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1 hour ago, karelm said:
Very awesome! Thanks for posting! Glad to see he's doing well. So this is Tanglewood or his home study?
Home!Also is that his stopwatch next to his glasses on the desk?
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1 hour ago, Jay said:
I really don't get why JJ thought it was a good idea to have that scene play with no music
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40 minutes ago, artguy360 said:
What about the best non-binary sunset SW music ending? That's gotta be AOTC right?
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15 hours ago, Fabulin said:
That’s no Christmas decoration on the left...that’s a Gia Voodoo Doll!- crumbs and Jurassic Shark
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I would be interested to see if JW wrote any alternate versions for TFA that didn’t include it. Listening to the concert version of Jedi Steps, there are glimpses of what could’ve been if he’d just kept building on that theme and then crescendoing into the end credits. It’d definitely be a darker approach.
We do know that there’s an alternate for TROS that at least has a different bridge to the end credits instead of simply repeating TFA.
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2 minutes ago, mrbellamy said:
I love that interview with the Swiss Army Man directors revealing that they received a letter from his reps saying they could use Jurassic Park as long as the movie wasn't NC-17.
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I’d pick Revenge of the Sith for sure. The storytelling connection to Luke’s moment in Ep 4 is a very satisfying way to wrap up those first six films. You might even say it rhymes!
I think JW could have come up with some great alternatives for the sequel trilogy.
Thoughts?
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It’s his normal house, you’re probably thinking of his bungalow/office at Amblin or whatever it’s called now.
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57 minutes ago, Edmilson said:
According to some rumours that have been circulating, Williams hated the Rogue One score and what Giachinno had done with his themes. So, he demanded more involvement on Solo just to keep track of the quality of the score.
The discussion in this thread is pretty great and goes on for several pages. To me, listening to RO, it’s not hard for me to fathom the possibility that JW disliked how his themes were presented.
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Jerry!
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Thank you! I only caught the last half hour but it was pretty great! Loved the comment about how some London musicians moaned and groaned when slated for a Williams session in the early 80’s because they wouldn’t be able to smoke. Apparently back then sessions were so full of smoke you could barely see the projection screen.
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I’m listening to the live horn hangout, and the horn player on Ep 9 said that Williams wrote two versions of Finale, with the second version having a different bridge between binary sunset and the end credits! Ugh, I’d love to hear it instead of the recycled TFA version.
I only caught the last half-hour so hopefully the whole thing will be uploaded soon.
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uhhh...did anyone else miss this music video that was released back in October?
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1 hour ago, Gruesome Son of a Bitch said:
Darth Vadar
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2 hours ago, Jediwashington said:
He talks most openly and honestly to other musicians, composers, and conductors. His media interviews are always dull and repetitive. When someone can knock him off script, that's when we get great insights, but he has clearly been well trained by the marketing folks during his time with the Boston Pops to not get too technical or in the weeds for fear of losing people and he seems very aware of that in interviews. His own agent might be coaching that as well, but he's at an age that I really wish they would just let him talk or sit him down with some conductors/musicians and just record conversations for prosperity. He's way too humble to agree to that though!
I agree. JW was definitely more introspective and opinionated in interviews during the 70’s and 80’s. Maybe he just got tired of it and decided to focus on the music after a certain point. You have to admit that the PR has been super polished and well-prepared since the 90’s.
A part of me is bummed we’ll probably never get the same type of openness and honest opinions from him like we got from other composers like Goldsmith, Herrmann, Barry, Rosenman, and Horner.
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22 minutes ago, Fabulin said:
Time for some more fanboy gushing:
I think Williams looks to be in a good shape, and speaks very fast and with a lot of energy, when compared to some other recent interviews, whether on camera or voice-only.
This is from around four years ago, that so that would probably explain it a bit. This is the portion that originally came out in 2016:
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17 hours ago, Fabulin said:
5 months have passed, and I don't know about this Anthem of Evil...
I would have loved for Anthem of Evil to have been an actual concert version of The Emperor’s Theme, yet still have this new theme interwoven as a sort of thematic extension. That, to me, would have been an appropriate musical summation of “the dark side” after nine films.
The opening choral section is gorgeous and seductively evil, I would have gladly replaced all the meandering Snoke material from the previous two scores with it. In hindsight, the new theme in Anthem of Evil could’ve served as a broader theme for Kylo/Ben’s pull to the dark side throughout the whole trilogy.
Revenge of the Sith is celebrating 15 years old
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Ah, the Backstroke of the West. Memories!
You two careful, he is a big.
Mr. Speaker, we are for the big