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    So what's Spider-Man 3 gonna be like?

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    I saw it Tuesday. I didn't pay much attention to the music, the only thing I noticed was during the end credits a lot of songs were credited. Almost every time the name of 'John Debney' was credited.

    The movie itself was entertaining. Lots of action, humor, lots of clichés, bit of romance, bit of drama... Nothing special, just a cool summer movie like it should be.

    One annoying thing was all the american pattriotism... It was too much.

    The Incredible Film Music Box?

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    OMG, something is messed up, someone else tell me if the Pirates of the Carribean sound clip preview thing actually sounds really calm and soothing, and actually beautiful when they play it.

    They got the 2 samples mixed up. You want the one right below it.

    Well... I thought that the sample from 'Girl with a pearl earring' sounded a lot like Pirates...

    What really happened to Shore's King Kong score?

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    Recently I watched the old production diary over kongisking.net (http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/PPD-13WeeksToGo_qt6_low.mov) featuring Howard Shore recording his score for King Kong. I also watched the recently released diary focussing on James Newton Howard's scoring and recording process. The funny thing is: observe Peter Jackson in both reports. He's there with Howard, actively involved in the process. He's talking to him, laughing with him...praising him. These aren't two men with "artistic differences"!

    Well, they are perfectly aware of the camera, and I think that has a lot to do with it. If you know that in five days it's going to be on the internet, you better try not to let slip anything wrong. Have you ever heard something bad coming out of those production diary's? There where other problems too with the production of Kong, things like strikes and protests from unions...

    In the new diary it is "revealed" that Jackson hasn't even met James Newton Howard personally! They have to converse over a satellite connection

    Yess, and in this diary Jacksons looks more like himself. He's gigling because James has so much to do and so little time, exactly as he was doing with RotK. He's going to deliver the picture, JUST in time, and battling with that time, clearly amuses him.

    My theory: Jackson was in no way displeased with Shore's score, but when he showed the rough cut of King Kong the executives at Universal were worried. Something had to be done about the movie. Jackson however was rightfully defensive: it's like someone wanting to change something about your children. That's not something you take very lightly. King Kong will be an amazing film, but - like The Lord Of The Rings - it will have it's Jacksonesque moments, it's almost artistic elements. The studio felt: if this extremely long film is going to succeed it needs to be more commercially appealing.  

    The fact is; no matter how good Shore's music is, it's on the outset not commercially appealing. At least not the executive's mind. Peter had to fight for his 3 hours, but along the way he had to make one or two concessions.

    I don't think the studio executives had much to do with it. I think they were very well awared that music form Howard Shore would be much much more commercially appealing than music from Newton Howard. I don't think that James Newton Howard has ever done a world wide tour for a symphony based on a score he has written? I was there in Antwerp, and there were a lot of people who generally don't like 'classical music'. They were there because they fel in love with the music of the trilogy. It was going to be their first and probably last classical concert.

    I think that what happened was exactly what the press said. Jackson didn't like the music. We don't know why, I don't think that we ever are going to know why, but Jackson didn't liked it.

    the score Shore had already recorded.  

    In order to keep the length of Kong, Jackson agreed. Sadly. I for one was really, really looking forward to Shore's King Kong.

    I don't think that it works like that... 'Ok, Peter, you can keep the length, but then you'll have to find a new composer.' It actually sounds more logical to keep the music and trim down the film.

    But perhaps there will be a Collecter's Edition of King Kong with the music from Howard Shore.

    Potterdom Film/Score Series Thread

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    The Death Eaters are my first complaint about this movie so far. One they are not supposed to look like that and two the KKK aren't something to be trivialized.

    You say it as a fact, while it isn't... In your opinion they shouldn't look like the KKK...

    When I read GoF the first time, the KKK was the first thing that sprung into my head. There are many similarities between the DE and the KKK and I think that Rowling did that very intentional.

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