Hans Zimmer's WONDER WOMAN 1984 (2020)

[Mephariel 451]

9 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said:

 

It is still patently absurd. Even Nolan wouldn't call himself an art director.

 

Really you think these people are making art films for 200 mil?

 

Yes.

 

"The director is incredibly proud of the film, which has earned five Oscar nominations, but he remembers realizing what a challenging release it would be when a producer turned to him four months into production and told him, “We’ve just made the most expensive art house movie in cinema history.”

 

“Let’s just say it would not be a good idea for me to make a movie like that twice,” Villeneuve said, referring to making a studio-funded tentpole with more avant-garde leanings. “When you’re working on a film you’re in a bubble, and it was only when I came out that I realized we had made a monster. I won’t do it again.”

 

https://www.avclub.com/denis-villeneuve-says-he-cant-get-away-with-making-anot-1822783057

 

 

[Mephariel 451]

 

 

"In a statement, Mondo’s Mo Shafeek said “Hans Zimmer’s score to Wonder Woman 1984 is quite possibly my favorite piece of superhero film scoring since John Williams’ Superman: The Movie and Danny Elfman’s Batman. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but even before our test pressings arrived, it was one of my most-listened-to albums on Spotify of the last 6 months. It’s that good. I can’t wait for you to hear how good it sounds on vinyl out of big speakers.”

 

https://nerdist.com/article/wonder-woman-1984-mondo-vinyl-soundtrack-posters/

[Jurassic Shark 12,072]

Or just get the CD.

[HunterTech 993]

Okay, ASCAP has just barely got the full cue credits to WW84, down to them still adding entries every check that I have made so far. I'll post what the list currently is, and update if there is any more:
 

Spoiler

SM = Steve Mazzaro
DF = Dave Fleming
OB = Omer Benyamin

 

BARBARA WAKES UP (HZ/SM)
BARBARA'S SECOND WISH (HZ/SM)
BARBARA'S WISH PT 1 (HZ/SM)
BARBARA'S WISH PT 2 (HZ/SM)
BEDLAM (HZ/OB)
BREAKING AND ENTERING/JOGGING PT 1 (HZ/SM)
CHEETAH FIGHT PT 3 (HZ/SM)
DIANA FALLS BEHIND (HZ/SM)
DIANA HOME/TABLE FOR ONE (HZ/SM)
DIANA SAVES BARBARA (HZ/SM)
DIANA'S WISH (HZ/SM)
DINNER FOR TWO (HZ/SM)
FBI NEEDS HELP (HZ/SM)
FLYING (HZ/SM)
GAMES BEGIN (HZ/SM)
GLOBAL WISHES RENOUNCED (HZ/SM)
HISTORY OF THE STONE (HZ/OB)
I CAN'T GIVE YOU UP (HZ/DF)
INNER CHAMBER (HZ/DF)
IT FITS PERFECT (HZ/DF)
KING'S WISH/THE WALL (HZ/DF)
MALL HEIST PT 1 (HZ/SM)
MALL HEIST PT 2 (HZ/SM)
MAX BECOMES STONE (HZ/SM)
MAX COLLECTING MORE WISHES PT 1 (HZ/DF)
MAX GOES TO OFFICE (HZ/DF)
MAX GRABS STONE (HZ/DF)
MAX HAS THE STONE (HZ/DF)
MAX REUNITES WITH ALISTAIR (HZ/DF)
MAX SEES THE LIGHT (HZ/DF)
MAX TOURS MUSEUM (HZ/DF)
MAX TRANSMITS (HZ/SM/OB)
MAX VISITS PRESIDENT PT 1 (HZ/DF)
MAX VISITS SIMON (HZ/DF)
MORE HELP (HZ/DF)
MORE TIME/WALK IN THE PARK (HZ/DF)
NEW STRENGTH/MORNING STEVE PT 1 (HZ/SM)
NOT A LOSER/DIANA LOOKS FOR STONE (HZ/DF)
NOT READY TO WIN (HZ/SM)
OPEN ROAD PT 2 (HZ/SM)
OPENING GAMES (HZ/DF)
PENN AVE PT 1 (HZ/DF)
STEVE LOOKS IN MIRROR (HZ/SM)
STEVE TRIES ON CLOTHES (HZ/SM)
STOLEN PLANE (HZ/DF)
WALL FALLS (HZ/SM)
WHAT IS THE STONE? (HZ/OB)
WHITE HOUSE STANDOFF (HZ/SM)
WISH RENOUNCED (HZ/DF)
END CREDITS 1 (HZ/SM)
END CREDITS 2 - LOST AND FOUND SUITE (HZ/DF)
1984 OPENING (HZ/SM)

The most interesting thing thus far is the lack of credits for the use of pre-existing material (Beautiful Lie (BvS), Adagio In D Minor (Sunshine), I Won't Leave You (Pompeii)). In the case of the first, its lack of mention in the music section of the end credits as well suggests that it wasn't necessary as it purely is a solo HZ composition. For the last two, the Murphy track is mentioned as being an existing licensed copy (despite being newly recorded), and the Shortner track is only credited as merely being the base composition. So with those factors in mind, it likely could explain why they are absent here.

Can't say I'm too surprised that there doesn't seem to be any solo HZ cues, given this would've been at the start of his recent large workload. I can already surmise who had more of an hand in key ideas, like Fleming with the Max and love material, and Mazzaro basically being the co-composer in handling much of the underscore and general traditional/heroic sound. Was a bit surprised to discover Benyamin being here in general, since he doesn't even seem to be on the HZ.com website, yet is mentioned on his own sites as being employed in RCP as a composer (though his official credit on the film is "score programmer/sequencer programmer"). I assume he patched things in spots the others couldn't. Ryan Rubin is on all cues, but I don't think he composed anything, as he's just the music editor.

I've taken a crack at attempting to tag the bootleg, based on how much I know about the film and what the fan made titles have been. I've separated the ones I haven't identified:

 

Spoiler

1m01 Opening Games
1m02 Games Begin
1m03 Diana Falls Behind
1m04 Not Ready To Win
1m05 1984 Opening
2m08-09 Mall Heist Pt. 1-2
2m10-11 Diana Home / Table For One / Barbara Wakes Up
2m12 FBI Needs Help
2m13-14 Dinner For Two
2m15 Diana Saves Barbara
3m16 Barbara's Wish Pt. 1-2
3m18 Max Tours Museum
3m19 Max Goes To Office
3m20 Diana's Wish
3m22 It Fits Perfect
3m24 Max Grabs Stone
3m26 More Time / Walk In The Park
3m28 Steve Looks In Mirror
3m29 Max Becomes Stone
4m30-32 New Strength / Morning Steve Pt. 1
4m34 Steve Tries On Clothes
4m36 More Help
4m37 Not A Loser / Diana Looks For Stone
4m38 What Is The Stone?
4m39a Stolen Plane
4m39b Flying
5m41 Breaking and Entering / Jogging Pt. 1-2
5m44 Open Road Pt 2
5m45 King's Wish / The Wall
5m46 History Of The Stone
5m47 Max Collecting More Wishes Pt. 1-2
6m48 I Can't Give You Up
6m49 Max Visits President Pt. 4
6m50 White House Standoff
6m51a Barbara's Second Wish
7m51b Wish Renounced
7m54 Max Transmits
7m55 Cheetah Fight Pt. 3
7m56 Inner Chamber
7m57a Beautiful Lie
8m57b Max Sees The Light
8m58a Global Wishes Renounced
8m58b Max Reunites With Alistair
8m59 End Credit 1
 

4m33
5m42
7m52c
7m53
 

BEDLAM
MAX VISITS SIMON
PENN AVE PT 1
WALL FALLS

Any help in regards to IDing the remaining the cues, as well as correcting some of the choices I made is appreciated. I'll post the full thing in the slates thread once we're fully certain of the choices made.

[Mephariel 451]

Omer Benyamin seems to be a new guy that got assimilated really quickly. He also worked with Zimmer on Dune and was with Zimmer when Tina Guo recorded a cue. I wonder what is the backstory with him. At first I thought he was there because he has knowledge of middle eastern music, but I wasn't sure.

 

Regarding the pre-existing music, Jonathan Broxton said he bet it wasn't a decision Zimmer was involved in (or made by him). Maybe it wasn't.

[crocodile 8,012]

Not sure if you guys know but this website offers an actual pressed CD release. Yes, it is "manufactured on demand" but several FSM members (including Intrada's Roger) confirmed these are indeed pressed discs and not CD-Rs found on Amazon:

 

https://www.importcds.com/hans-zimmer-wonder-woman-1984-original-soundtrack/794043206313

 

Karol

[crocodile 8,012]

My copy of the album just arrived from Imports CDs. And, as reported on FSM, it is indeed a CD and not CD-R as sold on Amazon. 

 

 

Really happy as this is Hans' finest in quite some time and, oddly, quite hard to come by on a proper physical format. 

 

Karol

[Jay 37,355]

Shorts weather in England, eh?

[crocodile 8,012]

Yup.

 

Karol

[crocodile 8,012]

 

 

Karol

 

[Mr. Who 919]

14 minutes ago, crocodile said:

 

 

Karol

 

I love this score! Hopefully this cue plus several others from WW84 (Games, Lost and Found, Anything You Want, Fireworks, 1984, Open Road, The Beauty In What Is) will be performed at the new World of HZ concert tour next year.
 

There will be an all new programme next year and just the DVC concert suite alone leaves around 25 mins of space for WW1984 cues.

[Mephariel 451]

11 minutes ago, Mr. Who said:

I love this score! Hopefully this cue plus several others from WW84 (Games, Lost and Found, Anything You Want, Fireworks, 1984, Open Road, The Beauty In What Is) will be performed at the new World of HZ concert tour next year.
 

There will be an all new programme next year and just the DVC concert suite alone leaves around 25 mins of space for WW1984 cues.

 

That was my first hope as well. When I heard that the The World of Hans ZImmer is getting a new programme, I thought about a WW84 suite.

[Nemesis 245]

Just watched the movie and liked the music. I'm in the minority but I LOVE Lost and Found. It's focus on the romantic side of the film really touches me. Hans uses the classic and romantic styles all over the place in this cue. The finale sounds almost like a mix of Mahler and a Puccini opera...

[toothless 963]

In the minority? I didn't know that because Lost and Found is almost my favorite cue of the score.

[Nemesis 245]

I clicked on page 6 of this thread and Boom! But nice to see not everyone is thinking that way...

[JTN 2,009]

WW 1984 is one of my favorite HZ scores, "his" best since probably, well, forever. "Truth" is one of the best cues I have ever heard. I wish Hans would do more uplifting scores like this. 

[fenrik 36]

My favorite Zimmer score today! I love every single track on this album and I've watched the movie probably ten times!
Not because I find the movie that good, but because I want to "watch" the score. Like watching music videos back in the good old days, lol! 

 

Truth is also one of my favorite tracks, along with Open Road and Lost and Found.
Also really love "In Love" from Sketches album. A bit different version of L&F. There's a section/theme in this track which appears twice which is not used in the movie, and I absolutely love that part! 

[Thor 7,498]

I have it on my hard drive, but removed it from my iTunes. I remember liking bits of it, less enthused with other bits. But I was annoyed by the excessive length once again. I suppose one of these days, I'll import it back in and whittle it down to proper length. Hopefully, that will raise my appreciation a bit more.

[JTN 2,009]

My favorite cues:

- Themyscira

- Games

- 1984

- Black Gold

- Cheetah

- Fireworks

- TRUTH 

- Lost and Found

 

2 hours ago, Thor said:

I was annoyed by the excessive length

You mean you don't want to listen to the 4-hour-long Recording Sessions? :-)

[Thor 7,498]

3 minutes ago, JTW said:

You mean you don't want to listen to the 4-hour-long Recording Sessions? :-)

 

He, he. No, weird, innit? 

[JTN 2,009]

I made a little film music tribute video back in 2021 and I used "Truth".