Nixon is a truly underrated JW score

[GerateWohl 5,959]

12 minutes ago, crumbs said:

The expansion will be Amistad levels of revelatory.

But I think, we can expect at least the same level of repetition like we have with Amistad. 

[Jurassic Shark 14,994]

On 23/05/2024 at 3:10 PM, GerateWohl said:

But I think, we can expect at least the same level of repetition like we have with Amistad. 

 

You can say that again!

[Jay 42,444]

On 23/05/2024 at 8:37 AM, Amer said:

JFK which has the whole thing score pres-cored

 

Only SOME of JFK was pre-scored!

 

He recorded a bunch of wild cues (not synced to any footage) in the summer of 1991, after he had recorded the songs and trailer music for Hook, before he actually wrote any of Hook's score proper.  Cues like these would have been recorded then:

 

Arlington
The Conspirators
Garrison's Obsession
The Motorcade
Theme From "J.F.K"
Theme From "J.F.K." (Piano Version)

 

However after he finished Hook in November of 1991, he recorded a bunch of cues that syncs to the final film after Stone had put the pieces of his wild recordings where he wanted otherwise.  That's stuff like these cues:

1M1 Main Title Part I

1M1 Main Title Part II
1M1 Main Title - Long Version
1M2A Theme Over Scottish Drums
1M4 Receiving the News

3M4 Oswald Effect
4M1 The Railroad Yard
4M3 Bannisters Office
5M1A Cubans Everywhere!
6M4 Effects [synthesizer - "low explosions at varying pitches"]
8M1 Ruby and Warren
8M2 Under the Rifle Sights
9M1 Easter Sunday Morning
9M6 Shaw's Exit
10M3A David Ferrie's Apartment

11M1A The Entrance of Mr. X
12M3 Circles of Power
12M5A End Note Bar 65
12M6A Bar 55 Crossover
13M3 Bedtime T.V.
13M5 Oswald Visits Hosts
13MX The Porch Scene
14M3 The Bedroom Scene

End Credits

 

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[Tom 5,614]

A complete, remastered score would be fantastic.  I experience Nixon as Williams trying to chart new territory.  He is coming off SL/JP career highpoints, and then Sabrina and this.  Both strike me as attempts to be fresh and different from his previous work.  I think ROTS was the culmination of the style introduced in Nixon, but the latter  is more raw, visceral, and wonderfully unrestrained.  Listen to this track.  One part JP and two parts angry, dark operatic brilliance.  I love it.  

 

 

[crumbs 15,509]

I hear a lot of ROTS in Nixon, yeah. It's definitely a precursor to his prequel style, which culminates beautifully in ROTS.

[Amer 2,528]

One of my favourites is the 19th century style inspired Trumpet solo in 'Growing Up In Whittier' cue performed by Tim Morrison. Absolutely sublime. 

[filmmusic 2,633]

@MaxMovieMan

can you correct please the titles on some of your unreleased tracks?

eg. Hoover's Death and Jones Ranch is actually Love Field.

Johnson's farewell is Brass theme

Sound Like Mother, I don't know...

It's the Lie, ditto etc.

 

[Marc 897]

9M3+4 📯🎺

 

 

[Tom 5,614]

Exhilarating!

[Director of Poltergeist 8,112]

It's pretty entertaining. John Williams/Oliver Stone was a great collaboration. 

[Pat_S 75]

On 20/05/2025 at 12:53 AM, Marc said:

9M3+4 📯🎺

 

 

Amazing stuff. I'm a huge fan of this cue, and I was silently hoping you'd cover it. I hope I can do a reduction of it one day.