ChuckM 1 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I'm not talking about those cues which may or may not be stolen from somewhere else, but the ones that are clearly intended as a tribute to an earlier score. What are your favorite examples?Some of mine include:"The Flag Parade" by John Williams from The Phantom Menace, which is an homage to "Parade of the Charioteers" by Miklos Rozsa from Ben Hur."Parlay" by Hans Zimmer from At World's End, which is an homage to Ennio Morricone's Once upon a Time in the West.The unreleased cue from Hancock by John Powell, which is an homage to John Williams' Superman.There are plenty more I'm not thinking of at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 "Parlay" is a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 I'm having trouble thinking of some examples I particularly like, but in a slightly different vein, I've always gotten a huge kick out of the statement of Yoda's theme in E.T.Ah, there's one - "Kate's Motel" from season 1 of Lost. Brilliant Hermann homage, both in the title and the music itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 The homage to Psycho in Star Wars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 "The Flag Parade" by John Williams from The Phantom Menace, which is an homage to "Parade of the Charioteers" by Miklos Rozsa from Ben Hur.And Jabba's theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 The homage to Psycho in Star WarsEh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Once they are aboard the Death Star while hiding in the Millenium Falcon's hidden cargo Williams quotes a few notes from Psycho.Goldsmith does a short homage to Psycho in Looney Tunes as well as Night Crossing, althought I don't know if the latter was intentional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Seriously? I never noticed...anyone happen to have a track time handy? (For the RCA release...or Sony, if you prefer.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Disc 2 Track 4: The Death Star / Stormtroopers at 1:39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 The Psycho cue has been used way more times than I care to count. It's become the standard to represent a sudden shocking moment, just as two low repeating notes (Jaws) has become the standard to represent some creepy mysterious creature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 I believe Williams mentioned it was a tip of the hat to Herrmann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 I'm sure it was, I'm just saying that quite a few composers have tipped their hats to him in that manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Disc 2 Track 4: The Death Star / Stormtroopers at 1:39Ah. Yeah, I never realized that was a Psycho reference - guess I don't know that score well enough. Certainly sounds Hermann-esque enough to my ear, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steb74 53 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Actually, in the FSM Vol. 8, No.1 interview with Williams, he says that the musical quote in question wasn't an intentional reference to Psycho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Horner's homage to America's first black regiment in Braveheart is a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Goldsmith's homage to Superman in Supergirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Horner's homage to America's first black regiment in Braveheart is a good one.I cannot comment on that, but we could probably fill a number of pages of this Thread with the "homages" James Horner has made.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Pops on the March: written for Arthur Fiedler but clearly an hommage to John Philip Sousa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 There's an unreleased bit from The Lion King that I could swear is Zimmer paying homage to...Zimmer. It's an intentionally cheesy moment as Pumbaa comes to the rescue during the battle at the end, IIRC - totally sounds like a spoof of Backdraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airmanjerm 78 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Horner's homage to America's first black regiment in Braveheart is a good one.I cannot comment on that, but we could probably fill a number of pages of this Thread with the "homages" James Horner has made....I will mention that one of my favorites by Horner is his non-subtle use of music from The Battle on the Ice from "Alexander Nevsky" in the Star Trek II cue "Battle in the Mutara Nebula."Kind of appropriate as the scene in "Alexander Nevsky" is fairly similar in design....two groups engaged in combat and nearly blinded by snow and ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 I cannot comment on that, but we could probably fill a number of pages of this Thread with the "homages" James Horner has made....Like Horner's homage to Bicentennial Man in A Beautiful Mind...Nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 There's an unreleased bit from The Lion King that I could swear is Zimmer paying homage to...Zimmer. It's an intentionally cheesy moment as Pumbaa comes to the rescue during the battle at the end, IIRC - totally sounds like a spoof of Backdraft.I'd have to watch The Lion King again to comment. I haven't watched it in ages. Composers do pay homages to themselves though. Morricone makes comic use of his Harmonica Theme from Once Upon A Time In The West in My Name Is Nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Disc 2 Track 4: The Death Star / Stormtroopers at 1:39You mean that timpani-low brass "ta da da" is a Psycho reference? To me, it's always just been a timpani-low brass "ta da da." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Summon the Heroes is a hommage to Copland's Fanfare to the Common Man[i/]. Duel of the fates to Orff's O Fortuna. Monsignor to Nino Rota. The Planet Krypton to Strauss' Introduction from Also Sprach Zarathustra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Horner's homage to America's first black regiment in Braveheart is a good one.I cannot comment on that, but we could probably fill a number of pages of this Thread with the "homages" James Horner has made....I will mention that one of my favorites by Horner is his non-subtle use of music from The Battle on the Ice from "Alexander Nevsky" in the Star Trek II cue "Battle in the Mutara Nebula."Kind of appropriate as the scene in "Alexander Nevsky" is fairly similar in design....two groups engaged in combat and nearly blinded by snow and ice.He used part of Battle on the Ice in Braveheart too. That ol' good James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Basil Poledouris - Under Siege 2 main titles - Fanfare for The Common Man.Whether or not it's intentional is up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Intentional without a doubt, since it's extremely close. The only question can be whether it was a homage or a ripoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruckhorn 105 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Star Trek VI's use of the inversion of the opening of Firebird.As to Horner-- think of him as being a green composer. With all that he's reused and recycled, I think it's an apt title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 There's a great homage in Silvestri's "Night at the Museum 2" to John Williams' "Across the Stars". To be precise, it is featured in the track 18 "On Your Toes" right at the beggining.Great to hear Silvestri making a homage to Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 The opening music to "Reanimator" is a really cheesy homage to the main title from Psycho. It has a drum machine!!!Williams wrote a lovely homage to Korngold's "Sea Hawk" for the first scene with Tinkerbell in "Hook". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Raiders March in Toy Story when Buzz runs from the globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Horner's homage to America's first black regiment in Braveheart is a good one.Just like his reference to Aliens when he reused--errr--referenced the action music from Aliens as the Klingon theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 From the Home Alone films: "Holiday Flight," and presumably "To the Plaza, Presto," are clever homages to Tchaikovsky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I heard Tchaikovsky was the inspiration for much of both scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 u peeps cant even spel homepage lulzI can remember Williams referencing his JFK score in Nixon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingPin 201 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Williams wrote a lovely homage to Korngold's "Sea Hawk" for the first scene with Tinkerbell in "Hook".I've never picked up on that. I'll have to watch the movie again and see if I catch that. But I feel like much of that scene was an homage to Stravinsky's music from The Firebird.Wasn't Catch Me If You Can sort of an homage by Williams to the 60's-style impressionist jazz that he remembered from the era? The finger snaps in the opening title could have also perhaps been a nod to West Side Story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 I haven't noticed this before, but in the Simpsons episode from Treehouse of Horror "Time and Punishment", when Homer goes back in time and sees the dinosaurs for the first time, the music is very similar to the Jurassic Park Theme. A great homage in my opinion.Here's the video:http://bossman72.smartvideochannel.com/media/playvideo.aspx?f=flash7&cid=3A1D43351AD148C188D69D6C8DBE4B33&v=mostviewed(Aprox at 1:20)If that episode had been used today, the would have used the real JP theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 the t-rex roar is very similar to JP's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Wasn't Catch Me If You Can sort of an homage by Williams to the 60's-style impressionist jazz that he remembered from the era? The finger snaps in the opening title could have also perhaps been a nod to West Side Story.CMIYC was definitely a JW jazz homage, I think he himself pointed out how much he loved "returning to his roots" in writing such score. And it's an interesting point about a nod to WSS, I never thought of it myself but it definitely makes sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musica42 0 Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Seems fitting to mention Ponyo since it just came out in America. Track 12 "Flight of Ponyo" is a fantastic homage to "Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Family Guy has done some wonderful film score / TV theme homages with the Family Guy theme during the end credits of the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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