Muad'Dib

It really surprises me how many people despise The Terminal. It's a great little film (little for Spielberg).
 
And Tintin's great too! 
 

- Hey John, can I copy your homework?
- Yeah, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied.
- Ok.

Seen The Terminal on a few worst lists here, but it's actually one of my favourites from Spielberg. And the score is one of my all-time favourites from Williams. 
 
It's that very deeply personal son to father connection that Spielberg obviously feels very personal to his own life after seeing The Fabelmans. And the score is also deeply personal to Williams and his connection to his father, because the entire story is about Jazz, and even though the film and score is comedic, they both feel so melancholic and nostalgic. Even the cinematography from Kaminski has that otherworldly shine and blur to it, like a classic romantic hollywood story.
 
Anyway, that's me defending The Terminal haha.

Program is here: https://cso.org/experience/article/13224/program-book-an-evening-with-john-williams-ma
 
music by john williams:
 
Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Suite from Far and Away
Three Selections from Harry Potter:
Hedwig’s Theme Fawkes the Phoenix Harry’s Wondrous World Theme from Born on the Fourth of July (Esteban Batallán, trumpet)
Adventures on Earth from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
 
intermission
 
Of Grit and Glory
Theme from Jurassic Park
Helena’s Theme from Indiana Jones 5
The Duel from The Adventures of Tintin
Theme from Sabrina (Robert Chen, violin)
Three Selections from Star Wars:
Scherzo for X-Wings from The Force Awakens Obi-Wan Throne Room Finale from A New Hope

Why is calling out problematic racist portrayals necessarily left-wing? I know people on the right who are able to easily recognize "dated" racist portrayals in Hollywood. (Lots of them LOVE criticizing holier-than-thou leftist Hollywood for its hypocrisy, in fact.) If I say that I have trouble appreciating Birth of a Nation for its cinematic strengths and historical importance due to its blatant racism, is that me promoting some side's political agenda, or is that just me accurately recognizing racism and saying I have a problem with it?
 
For this forum to be wholly un-political, can racism ever be discussed or acknowledged at all? Does discussing Hollywood's historic racist portrayal of Native Americans in the western genre also constitute "left-wing political posting" at this point? Or is it commonly accepted historical fact? I fail to see how discussing the problematic portrayal of Indians in Temple of Doom is any different.
 
 
The subject came up because someone floated the notion that all this (deserved!) widespread love for Ke Huy Quan constituted a general critical re-evaluation and validation of the "black sheep" or "red-headed stepchild" of the Indiana Jones franchise (as it has long been widely considered to be... even by the director!):
 
 
And I felt the need to reply and make clear that, for ME (and I've been making plenty of posts celebrating Quan here and elsewhere), that was very much NOT the case, that my celebration of him being such a great part of that movie does NOT mean that I celebrate that movie on the whole and think that its problems have been rectified with the passage of time. That it hasn't "aged well" in retrospect; quite the opposite if anything. (Though many reviewers at the time called it out for how problematic it was, and I don't think that the Christian Science Monitor guy whose review I quoted wrote his review with an obvious political agenda.) Fair enough fodder for discussion in a forum discussing films and their music?
 
Yavar

Somehow, Maximus returned...

How great is this
 

It's become insufferably annoying to read any posts he makes these days because he only ever talks about one thing.
 
The man who used to give interesting insight into the movies he watched, the scores he listened to, and the games he played, as well as interesting stories about his personal life including his dating adventures, has now become the old man who yells at a cloud about the same thing over and over again and does nothing else here.

What a waste.

Ruining your video games and movies how?

But you've already admitted even yesterday that in the past, the movies that won were often never the ones you felt were the most deserving (a sentiment that no one here has contested). So I got to ask what really is the difference besides the "aesthetic," because I haven't been able to put together a picture that reasonably demonstrates the core flaw in giving awards/attention to projects we wouldn't have recognized in the past.

Ruining your video games and movies how?

Ruining your video games and movies how?

I’m simply pointing out that “woke culture” is all KM talks about on this message board in recent years. Not specifically about the Oscars, but in regards to all media. 

Funny how, if the Academy really was “woke” (in the real or even pejorative sense), one might think they’d have awarded Son Lux for Best Score over the white German dude (who wrote one of the worst scores of the year), or heck maybe awarded one of the three (quite deserving) women of color for Best Supporting Actress, over Jamie Lee Curtis. They could have even still awarded EEAAO, since her costar Stephanie Hsu was also nominated with her! I mean, if Hollywood really is just bestowing awards to get “woke” points and feel good about themselves, how do we explain those decisions?
 
Kinda messes with the narrative of King Mark and others like him, huh?
 
Yavar

You’ve really made this your personality over the last several years, at least on this message board. Cynical is an understatement! 

I guess the score is finished finished now: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpnqXoksfHw/

I/O is coming this year!
 
There's also two new tracks that have been released so far (he's been releasing one every new Full Moon since January)
 
 
 

I love this man so fucking much
 

It appears that today the use of Leitmotivs is more frequent in his interviews than in his scores.

Thanks for the link!; Watching with CC on:

 
I don't even want to imagine what that job might entail.

YouTube version
 
 

You cited Dances with Wolves as a catchy theme. Well, how could you forget about it? Barry repeats it all the freaking time!

You're kidding, right?