Muad'Dib

I'm so happy and proud to be part of ColonneSonore.net. Look what arrived today on our email:

Anyway, speaking of Gravity.

Karol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoqL8NWFPJc

They have one! It's Lord Bravery...

Holy crap! If this article is quoting Abrams accurately, maybe that Facebook post was right after all!

http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/04/30/star-wars-episode-vii-likely-to-be-scored-by-john-williams/
Wow!!!

Just a note, I contacted the radio station and they'll send me the full audio CD by mail. I'll upload it somewhere when I get it so we should all have this soon. Special thanks to Jim Svejda for having a kind heart to a JW fan.

I've seen that one in theaters. Now how many here can say the same, huh?!

Ts....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lsqz1bjd-0

The last decade of film:


Oh man, I almost forgot. Inside a government/corporate/jail/industrial building?

BLUE GREEN AMBIANCE!
So artistic.

Harrison Ford Won't Answer Star Wars Questions:

Monsters Univerisity: Randy Newman
The Good Dinosaur: Thomas Newman
Inside Out: John Williams
Finding Dory: Thomas Newman
Día de los Muertos: Michael Giacchino

Hopefully..

Warning... I just got home after seeing it. Call it a biased review, because I am a HUGE fan of Jurassic Park. as you can tell. It is indeed my personal favorite movie.
My verdict... awesome and amazing! So worth it to see in 3D Imax! You really feel so close and so part of it all! Many scenes were so perfect for the format in their composition naturally that it was such a treat! The sound was loud and surrounding. Music blared. The audience totally ate it up. There were some kids near me that made some sounds in a few quiet moments but quickly were shooshed by their parents. By the time that T-rex showed up... they were silent.

This movie lives on the screen. That's where it belongs. Its such a perfect cinematic adventure.Everything holds up so well. And some parts actually made me jump due to sound and how big it was! And I knew everything that was coming! One part inparticluar was so effective in 3D that made MANY people jump, including me a bit! I didn't expect it!

It's funny, because at times watching certain scenes reminded me of looking through my Jurassic Park ViewMaster 3D reels as a kid! Obviously the 3D here was a much better effect, but this kind of feeling gave me EVEN MORE nostalgia watching it. I felt like the whole movie was through the ViewMaster of my youth now!

It's a world I always want to be a part of. I really didn't want to leave. This was truly where I.belonged. So happy to have experienced this film, my favorite, in such an astounding and community-esque way.

I'm sure few people will ever understand. This is my Star Wars.
If anyone has anything to ask about it, let me know. That changes I mentioned earlier in this thread were actually the only real changes I could spot in the entire film. Otherwise, it looked and felt just like the Jurassic Park I always knew and loved... but as if I was there reliving it as if it was new again.
End of fanboy gushing.

I understand that you're in it for the holistic experience more than anything else (correct me if I'm wrong), but it doesn't take an extravagant amount of extra attention to the music to recognize moments within it that you like. You say you're interested in great cues as highlights; well, highlights are exactly what people feel are missing when they point these cues out. "Rescuing Sarah" and "Anakin's Dark Deeds" are perfect examples, where the climactic material of both are either shortened or omitted entirely.
The big picture may be the most important thing, but it would be nothing without its parts.

As I predicted, they are no longer referring to the 8 episodes that aired in 2012 as "Season 5 Part 1", it's just "Season 5". The 8 episodes airing this July-Aug are "Season 6".
Here's the press release for the Season 5 DVD/Blu Ray! (There are no spoilers within for Season 5 or 6)

This is quite a long shot, but do you think if we ask Conrad Pope he'll know anything about it?

Contains 4 previously unreleased cues:
- "Stalling" (AKA "Cartoon Demonstration")
- "The History Lesson"
- "Hungry Raptor"
- "The Coming Storm"
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/jurassic-park-20th-anniversary/id621507165

Never seen it before. I think those ones are worth enough to open a new thread. I didn't want to put those in the youtube clips thread, because this is Williams' related and not general discussion. Hope you don't mind.

I've tried asking Pete Docter on his Twitter page regarding this, but I don't think he uses it frequently so it will be hard to say if we'll have an answer or not...
Is there any way we can find more about this?
Edit: I created a Twitter account solely for this. Just like when I created a Facebook page just to ask Conrad Pope about TIntin

Spielberg talks JP 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1t0bFcMCo

I'm resorting this up because I think all this useless and stupid controversy needs clarifications. I already wrote this on the FSM board, but I guess repetita juvant:

First of all, let's get down to facts: the day after this stupid controversy exploded (keep in mind it was created and agitated by incorrect Italian news agency reports and then reprised by international agencies), Morricone released an official press statement to correct and clarify what he said. Here's a translation:



I think this clarifies everything. The fact he isn't comfortable with a movie showing so much blood and carnage maybe sounds ridiculous to some fellows here considering he scored A LOT of violent and disturbing films over his long career. But we should take into account that he's now 85 years-old and probably his taste in movies has changed.

Also, everyone who knows and follows Morricone since a long time knows very well that the core matter about consistency and coherence of film composition has ALWAYS been one of his strongest aesthetic flags, which he sometimes defended to the point of sounding a bit rude. He always believed in film music as something that needs artistic integrity and he spoke against the usage of "preexisting tracks-as-film-score" many times, especially when this approach is in conflict with an original score. He had strong discussions with Terrence Malick during DAYS OF HEAVEN and he had the guts to tell him: "Terry, you HAVE TO choose!" (this is a story he told during a public conference I attended). But he always acknowledged the FREEDOM of the director to choose whatever approach is right for the movie (in fact, he spoke highly several times about Kubrick's use of music in his movies and it looks like he's fine with Tarantino's as well). But he pertains to a generation/category of film composers (like Williams and Goldsmith) who STRONGLY believe in the creation of original music suited and tailored to the film's needs, with the utmost respect of the film itself. As he many times stated, the primary task of the film composer is TO SERVE the film. In this sense, I find perfectly understandable he maybe doesn't see eye-to-eye with some of Tarantino's musical choices. Nevertheless, he respects and admires him.

What I found quite insulting in all this useless controversy is the fact that most of the people who commented it around the internet quickly divided into fanboy factions (be it Tarantino's camp or Morricone's camp), following this nowadays common internet behavior of taking a stance over every single matter to the point of catfighting over it. And this happened also with film music lovers, who should probably be more aware than others that what Morricone said is something that's part of the job of the film composer (i.e. discussing and even dissenting with the director, finding the right approach for the movie, etc.). Instead, many score nerds popped up and started to lambast Morricone, depicting him as an old fart who is out of touch with contemporary film aesthetics.

Yesterday I did a piece about this for the website I write for. It's written in Italian, but maybe with an automated translator you'll get what is my feeling over all this:

http://bit.ly/114TAii

I'd pay to see that!

this guy does various music pieces in the parallel minor/or major scale of an original piece.
It sounds difficult to manipulate the original recording but anyway.
here's the Godfather theme!
I really hope he could do some Williams! (eg. Imperial March or something)