Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 These all appear to be ghost writers with talent and skill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 He did start using ghostwriters?Horner never uses ghostwriters.Some rumors say that Conrad Pope and Randy Kerber ghost-wrote a few sections of Troy (but that it's understandable, since it was a last-minute replacement).The Legend of Zorro too. Also Don Davis on The Pagemaster.Was it true Davis wrote some stuff on Clear and Present Danger?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Rumors! By envious competitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 That's true, actually. Elfman's entire career is plagued with such accusations (like that William Ross wrote Beetlejuice).Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Didn't TGP claim he ghostwrote Interstellar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Who? Matthew McConaughey dictated Interstellar score through Morse code. It was Hans' ghost all along.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Didn't Don Davis due that one cue in Toy Story 3 that sounds like a Don Davis cue and not a Randy Newman cue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Which one was it?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Track 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 It does sound a bit like him, true.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 He orchestrated the score, so I'm sure the anvil was his idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 It's really a no brainer. Does anyone expect an official press release for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 It happened (and still happens) frequently that, in case of tight deadlines, trusted orchestrators step up writing a few cues for top name film composers without getting an official credit (sometimes they get it on the cue sheet for publishing rights issues).It's really no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 It's really no big deal. People should always be credited for what they contribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 And yet everyone bashes Zimmer for the very thing on a daily basis.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Which is most annoying since he doesn't even fucking do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Track 14Lol. Why are we (and everyone in that thread) calling it 'Track 14' and not The Claw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Nice note from Conrad Pope about Desplat's Oscar winAbsolutely fantastic! If the Oscar is recognition for the highest accomplishment in a year by a film composer, then Alexandre Desplat has certainly deserved this award many, many times. Last night, it was so exciting and gratifying to see AD finally take home the award he has earned so many times in years past but, until now, alluded his grasp. I think I could hear all my colleagues in both London and Los Angeles cheering and applauding the Academy for finally recognizing what we have known for so long: AD is a not only a composer of extraordinary talent and moving, effective music but a musician of extraordinary gifts whose music making not only graces and enhances the films he scores, but the professional lives of the musicians with whom he works. Bravo to a true maestro and bravo to his champions: Laura Engel, Richard Kraft, Doreen Ringer Ross, Paul Broucek and so many, many more. ( I know that the late, indefatigable advocate of AD's talent Bobby Urban is looking down and cheering as loudly as any). This year, Oscar disappointed neither the music lover nor the professional musician. Indeed, the recognition of Alexandre by the Academy burnishes Oscar's reputation, I think rather than vice versa.https://www.facebook.com/conrad.pope/posts/10205180163496629 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 MehPeople are more likely giving him a "composer of the year/decade" award or "the most deserving winner" award more than praisin this actual score. Which honestly is not very good. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hey, Pasi! Have you heard Desplat's Monuments Men?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Not sure. Either aren't my favorite. As a person I prefare Alexadre.To Krok, unfortunately no... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Now I have! It suppose to be legendary, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 It's one of the best scores of 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Not legendary but nice, no?karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 How many he wrote in 2014?!?!Still it should not effect the voting... Even if he had productive year!Not my cup of tee.He is good, somehow inventive and cool but I don't know... something is missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 How many he wrote in 2014?!?!Still it shouldn't not effect the voting... Even if he had productive year!Well, he did Monuments Men, Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Suffragette, and Unbroken.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Suffragate is a 2015 film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Oh yes, you're right. Wikipedia incorrectly lists it as 2014 score.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Not my cup of tee. He is good, somehow inventive and cool but I don't know... something is missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 How many scores a composer writes in a year is irrelevant. It doesn't make Monuments Men any more or less good if it was his only score that year, or one of four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 How many he wrote in 2014?!?!Still it should not effect the voting... Even if he had productive year!Not my cup of tee.He is good, somehow inventive and cool but I don't know... something is missing. Put the name Williams on it, and you would be all over this!What?Of course I regonize good music whoever wrote it!!!!I only like Williams' music and most of Thomas Newman's...movie music I mean.How many scores a composer writes in a year is irrelevant. It doesn't make Monuments Men any more or less good if it was his only score that year, or one of four.This is exactly what I mean, Desplant got some praise how efficient he had been... I find most of his scores mediocre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I adore The Grand Budapest Hotel. Maybe the majority of the voters did too, hornist, there is no truth in opinions. To me it's a great score and a deserving win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Damn. I do believe that BloodBoal equals truth, so there you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I like Desplat quite a bit, but he reminds of those football players (that's soccer for you Americans), that always plays at a good level, never lets the team down, but rarely decides a match or tuns a transcedent performance.I don't think I've ever heard a score from Desplat that I desliked, nor do I feel that he has ever failed to very competently serve the movie. But he hasn't stunned me thus far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I felt the same way until this past year. I think he's getting chances to be more adventurous. I desperately want to hear more of his concert music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I agree with Româo.And he got the same images in Potter than John and there is a great difference in the magic. And I"m not even a biggest fan of JW's Potter scores. Except III. It's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Oh his Potter score are definitely among his least interesting stuff. But then, they were temp-tracked with Zimmer so what do you expect?Karol Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I really like both his Potter scores. The action music takes a downturn in the second one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Ok, have to check his other scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 That's much more like it: (Not my favourite by any means but way better than Potter)Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I really like the action music in ROTG but the schmaltzy stuff (the title song for instance) doesn't really work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 The main theme is mint.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I was first impressed by AD back in 2002, when I first heard of his music in the French film Nid de guepes (aka The Nest)--the sort of Goldsmith-esque vibe of that score made my ears peek. Then I heard The Girl with a Pearl Earring the year after and I remember thinking he was someone definitely worth of attention. Then Birth sealed the deal for me and I started to listen to follow his work regularly. Since then, his career literally skyrocketed into Hollywood stardom, while continuing to keep one foot in European productions as well, to the point of becoming really the single favorite go-to composer for many talented directors and producers on both sides of the Atlantic. I think only Ennio Morricone has been able to achieve the same status in both industries. This is surely a sign of true talent.Anyway, I really think Alexandre must be careful at this point of his career, as likely he will start to become even more requested by A LOT of people. Surely he already turns down many offers and really works just on the projects that truly interests him and with people he connects with. At the rate he's working, the risk of repetition is always behind the corner, added with the factor that some people could simply ask him to sound too much like himself, as it happened to Morricone--but what do I know? It's his golden moment and he's right to pick and choose what he feels good about. He's definitely a true composer who knows how to write good music. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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