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It was obviously "follow-ups", but I recognize you wrote a nice pun. Mirko - wondering where's the fun in removing a letter from a person's name.
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Henry Buck, I agree with Morlock...you first comment about Nazis was ridiculous, and the second was even worst!
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Hey, now that's an idea! We definitely should have one, as we never had such a thread! Yeah I agree. He seems a funny dude, who just should change work. Easier, certainly. Isn't Marian a girl name? Are you a girl? A rare funny post by Joe. A very funny sentence, actually.
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Hmmm, why? I don't like sentences like "this is my absolute favourite cue" so I never said anything like that. Plus I have more than 30 JW's albums so if I ever have to pick a favourite track from here and there, well, I know what I'd talking about. I'm not the kind of person that throw shit on this or that score/composer just for the fun of it. In fact, for example, I judged the first PotC score because that's still the only one I listened to. I wouldn't bash both Zimmer score to the two folloups since I've yet to see the movies/listen to the scores. But I realize you wrote that 'cause you needed to wrote that...your day ain't happily complete if you don't do this to someone, huh? What a guy... John - who killed Tommy Johnson the other day.
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No problems, Romão. I wasn't really comparing the numbers of the times both themes are used, I was pretty much pointing that the Ark theme is one of the most (or THE most) predominant theme of Raiders or even of the whole series. And by "predominant" I don't mean just the most used theme, but also the most important theme, and the most powerful one. So yeah, of course both the Ark theme and the Grail theme are the most important in their respective movies (as they're about the objects Indy is looking for) but the Ark theme just sounds more predominant. I'm not sure if my thought is clear...probably I just think that the Ark is the very predominant theme in its movie just because it's scary, misterious and so damn wonderful.
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Are you joking, I hope?!
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A nomination only if it's Williams only score next year, and even that's dubious with it being a sequel score. No chance for a win. Sad but true, John. Sad but true. I obviously hope you'll turned out to be wrong, yet in the meantime I know you'll be right.
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Will Raiders March a big part of Indy 4?
John McClane replied to Josh500's topic in General Discussion
Yep, MSM, that's what I said. The Raiders March is essential, but only for the very beginning, the very end of the movie and in a few moments here and there, like the so-called (in the bootlegs) "Indy Fanfare" in Last Crusade. It'll help to excite people in trailers and at the beginning of the movie, but it has never been really important during any of the movies, as there has been (and there will be in the fourth movie) too many important themes to just use it. And in fact The Raiders March has (luckily) never been overused in the Trilogy. After all, it's John Williams. He's not the PotC guy, who created a couple of themes and used them over and over again throughout the movie. JW perfectly knows how, when and how much his themes fits in the movies he scores. He never overuses a theme. -
Nein! I are not German. I are Italien! Germany is only where something great happened last year, but that's history, that's the past. This is the thread of the future, the thread of Indy IV! Man, can you believe we're going to have another Indiana Jones movie and score? Yeah man, I mean, that's great!! :thumbsup:
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Will Raiders March a big part of Indy 4?
John McClane replied to Josh500's topic in General Discussion
If you can't avoid to make an example, you may want to mention Star Wars and its main theme. That's so historical that many people immediately thinks of it as soon they see the hyper space, a spaceship o probably even a coloured neon lamp. -
Pick one single Indy score and it will be better than all the LOTR and all the Harry Potter combined together! Indiana Jones über alles!!
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Will Raiders March a big part of Indy 4?
John McClane replied to Josh500's topic in General Discussion
I voted for option 2. It will be featured here and there but not predominantly (as it has never been predominant in any score). Option 4 is bullshit, though. It's absurd to think of anything Indiana Jones related without the Raiders March. It's a tie that cannot be separated. -
Manuel, send me that 2 CDs bootleg! And I want John Williams to score Bad Boys 3 and Die Hard 5!!
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That much is certain!
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the grail theme is as memorable... It's memorable indeed, but not predominant like the Ark theme, which is featured in pretty much almost every key moment of Raiders. The Grail theme is memorable and woderful, but not predominant and used a lot like the Ark theme. I actually think that the "Scherzo for motorcycle and orchestra" is used more, though I wouldn't call it a predominant them as well.
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That's right, John. Raiders score is powerful mostly because of one strong theme (The Ark theme), while LC doesn't have a so-predominant theme, but still feature a lot of themes that combined together makes a wonderful listening experience.
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Which Indiana Jones inspired movie do you like best?
John McClane replied to MSM's topic in General Discussion
There's no Tomb Raider in the list! I watched only a couple of the movies in this list, but I didn't loved any. -
Well, luckily I wasn't born/didn't lived in the period Jesus is supposed to have lived, so I can't know wheter that object (or the Bible or anything related to the Christianity) really existed. So yes, it could be a legend. Or it could have existed. Nobody will know the truth. But I lived, live and will live greatly anyway. I kind of agree. The "thing" Indy is looking for throughout the Last Crusade is his dad and their pretty much lost relationship. Which led to wonderful love themes mixed with great action scenes! It's doesn't sound that interesting, unless they make these skulls to have really cool powers. And if Atlantis will be involved in the story it would totally kick ass to hear parts of the wonderful score of the Fate of Atlantis videogame. We'll never have a Fate of Atlantis movie but at least we could have a bit of that historical score. No, as I said before they're not forced, I just pointed out that it would be funny. I think it would be also funny (even if contrast what you said in your last part of your post) to see a short "remake" of another scene of one of the previsious movies, with Indy that suddently finds himself in an identical situation he lived years before. Just a scene of a couple of minutes (again, referenced to JW's self-parodies), but I don't think it will happen.
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I don't have a favourite movie/score. Each of them have its own great aspect(s). Very different aspects, which make them very different movies that has everything, every good aspect you can think of, you can find it in the Indiana Jones trilogy. Every score has too many good themes to me to choose an absolute favourite, so I may have a favourite one that changes from time to time. I bet many people have Raiders as the favourite movie because it was the first, and 99% of the times the first movie in a saga is the strongest one, the one that remains the most in people's minds (just think about Jaws or Star Wars, or even Superman: The Movie, just to mention JW-only works...) If ToD or LC were the first instead of Raiders, many people would have different feelings.
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Woah. This is totally new to read! Also, someone needs to start a poll to decide which is the board's favourite one between Star Wars and Empire Strike Back.
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Buy everything you want! Not just one!
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Was that related to Stefan's signature?
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It has already been done? By John Williams himself? In an Indiana Jones movie? I don't think so. Mirko - who loved the Ark theme citation in the Last Crusade. ^_^
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That's true. Of course. It would totally ruin the movie, which will sucks big time. Now I'd like to discuss a couple of points: 1) I'm a bit afraid that this movie will be too fantasy. I mean, Raiders was about the Ark of the Covenant, which is a mythological item but pretty much still realistic. Temple of Doom was about this small lonesome Indian village, with its sacred stones, and a temple with evil voodoo cult. A crazy but still realistic story, as you never know how strange can be the world. Last Crusade was about the search of the chalice used by Jesus in the Last Supper, which nobody can tell if it's true, but we all know that many people have always discussed its existence and searched for it. Which, again, makes Last Crusade a realistic movie. But what about Crystal Skulls? A Kingdom of Crystal Skull? What's that? I don't want a movie about something like medieval legends and tales and stuff like that. I've always loved Indy because, as archeologist, has always looked for real or supposed-to-be-real objects, I don't wanna see him in the end of the movie happy because he found a skull made of crystal. It would be disappointing and very sad. 2) Which dangerous animals Indy is supposed to face this time? It's not that they're forced to put dangerous animals, but I'm used to this and it always come out something funny. In Raiders there were spiders and snakes. In Temple of Doom there were any kind of bugs (or fortune cookies ^_^ ) and crocodiles. In Last Crusade there were rats. What's left? They haven't done yet a long underwater Indy scene, it would be funny to see Indy meet sharks (imagine JW parodying his own Jaws...that would be hilarious)
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I'm surprised that the Varese edition is still available. Every time I go on the Varese website I always search for that to see if it's still available. I mean, it's a Williams release and very limited, thought it's still available after several years from the releasing, when usually Williams releases got sold ut in just a few weeks.