Nick Parker
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On 9/25/2020 at 4:20 AM, SilverTrumpet said:
When I was younger, I always saw it as "Yoda's training prepared him for this moment" or that because of Yoda's training he can be the true hero he's being for the first time for his friends. Before that, you remember he'd get his ass kicked, Han and Leia were more capable and able of things than he was. Dude got one lucky shot on the Death Star and the next time we see him he immediately gets his ass kicked by a yeti. Then he gets whooped at the Battle of Hoth. So now he arrives on Bespin and is the one that's going to save them. Even Han sees Luke otherwise when he finally unfreezes. "Luke? Luke's crazy! He can't even take care of himself, much less rescue anybody."
I believe, in the original liner notes for Empire Strikes Back, Williams wrote that it was "Luke applying Yoda's training". Of course, we Williams fans should know in the end not to apply very strict "movie theme" logic to his work.
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On 9/27/2020 at 1:47 AM, publicist said:
For me it does, and as i suspected it is an eclectic mix of Tom Newman-ism's and chamber-sized orchestra, where Goldenthal at least sometimes lets loose with his patented agitated scherzos. So it's a good deal more musically accomplished than what tv composers do for this kind of stuff (there's a tv series right now with Cate Blanchett about exactly the same topic) but stays in the general mold.
Sometimes I really wonder if we want some of our favorite composers to have graced the medium and went astray, to ever come back.
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10 hours ago, Holko said:
In the Jaws booklet, Mike refers to an "Orca" theme (I assume the one that returns in Finding the Orca in Jaws 2), and a "sprightly hornpipe for scenes of the boat at sea". ANyone know exactly what the latter one is referring to? I listened to the first few "hornpipe" videos but that didn't help, I didn't immediately know "oh, it's gotta be this!". I can think of 4-6 loosely associated recurring motifs in the score, nobody named them in 45 years, not even fans?
When I was in high school, I actually associated one of them as a theme for Quint! Now that I'm older I really like how Williams wrote a good number of motifs that aren't rigidly defined as belonging to someone or something.
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5 hours ago, Disco Stu said:
Figure of speech!
Not if you had little siblings.
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5 hours ago, Falstaft said:
Your skepticism is warranted, but all I can say is I was told from someone directly involved with the TROS recording sessions that, at minimum, DotF was performed -- possibly as part of an alternate End Credits suite that never materialized.
Orchestra members' and involved Lucasfilm/ recording studio staff's homes shortly after JWFan reads this:
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The one that immediately came to mind:
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14 hours ago, Quintus said:
I love 'em. They sound badass.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6D1yCrOuRK85jtR45t7ES0?si=pkv-rPAXRZW7EFur8nPgUA
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21 hours ago, Disco Stu said:
I listened to Amistad twice in a row.... ama?
What was the most traumatic thing you've done listening to the score?
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3 hours ago, Manakin Skywalker said:Mike Zeroh
And then you have dudes like Doomcock who probably make stuff up just to make journalists write the word "doomcock" in print.
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2 minutes ago, Thor said:
When's this documentary coming out, then?
It starts tomorrow! At least in the US.
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20 minutes ago, mstrox said:
U don't need to click cosmicbook dot news, folks! The click is what they want!
Thanks for the warning!
19 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:Oh well if a Youtuber said it
I'm still waiting on the Lucas cut of Rise of Skywalker, the erasure of the sequel trilogy from canon, and Kennedy's removal from Lucasfilm!
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27 minutes ago, Pawel P. said:
Cool. But I've never heard of Williams thinking of retiring in the late 90's. And I'm sure that's not true.
My exact thoughts watching the video. I guess we now have to be on the watch for Williams' career being completely contextualized and predicated on Star Wars movies. They're trying to rewrite history!
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5 hours ago, Falstaft said:
Good film music suits the film. Great film music elevates it. Truly masterful film music transcends it.
Is that always a matter of one being directly better than the last, though? Isn't it entirely possible for great music to be written for a film that isn't very simpatico with the images? Lalo Schifrin is one of my favorite composers, but I find that a lot of his scores are almost ridiculous in how they play out in context, with some notable exceptions...in that regard, I don't consider him a very good film composer.
So the music "transcends" the films in that it's very well written and very satisfying to listen to on its own, but within the films themselves, it's almost a disservice.
What would you call that? Unless there's a way to interpret what you're saying that I'm not considering?
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7 minutes ago, rough cut said:I had to google what the hell Jedi Temple Challenge is?
I wish I hadn’t.
3 minutes ago, Edmilson said:wat
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20 minutes ago, Oomoog the Ecstatic said:
There's always lots of extra tracks that I just want to skip
With such a big game that would require tons of music to support it, that might by necessity be uninteresting, wouldn't it be part of the territory? I wouldn't see that as a blemish on the score as a whole. It'd be cool if more composers thought in album approach, like what McConnell did with Grim Fandango back in the day, or of course this forum's namesake. Video game soundtrack releases tend to be music dumps more often than not.
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14 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:
Do you write Trump’s speeches?
He's continuing a very popular trend that we have seen all over for the last decade or so: he's the "spiritual successor" to skyy38.
Of course, the idea of wearing a mask to protect others, as has been displayed by countries such as Japan for many years, I would argue promotes a greater sense of community, of neighbors looking after neighbors. It's pretty touching, actually.
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Wait, that version is a different arrangement, not VL's original! Get it the hell outta here!
Here's the original: no cello, and celeste instead of piano.
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22 minutes ago, PuhgreÞiviÞm said:
DC's dark and disturbing guarantee is a promise, man. I know to you, a promise means nothing, but to me, it's serious.
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6 hours ago, Quintus said:
Yeah I guess I can understand that.
I'd hope so, the dude explains it eight times every few months.
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42 minutes ago, Quintus said:
Actually, the sequel to Schindler's List was always Schindler's List II: Back to the Ghetto.
"He who puts a cap in one ass puts a cap in the world's ass entire."
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: 40th Anniversary
in JOHN WILLIAMS
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Good point...I saw the word "bellicose" and knowing Williams likes that word, I just assumed it was him
Although honestly I always wondered if the liner notes were accidentally referring to the music underscoring the earlier part of the duel, the music that ultimately was unused.