New Williams Feature Short: The Maestro's Finale (TROS digital release - 17/03/2020))

[crocodile 7,984]

The 2-hour documentary is nice...and with lots of really cool archival footage... but you get a real sense no one liked The Last Jedi...especially Daisy Ridley.

 

Karol

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

Haven't watched the full doco yet but found this clip:

 

 

 

All stuff we already knew of course, but I got chills hearing the variations side-by-side like that.

 

[Tom 4,634]

1 hour ago, Docteur Qui said:

Haven't watched the full doco yet but found this clip:

 

 

 

 

"No. I have never done that, and how do you do it?" 

 

I love Williams.   

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I love you

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6 hours ago, Tom said:

"No. I have never done that, and how do you do it?" 

 

I love Williams.   

 

Haha, examples of times he has done such a thing incoming in 3... 2...

[aviazn 273]

"A love theme in Star Wars? No. I have never done that, and how do you do it?"

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Easy to forget. It was only the same franchise and a theme he used dozens of times in the newest score.

[Falstaft 2,132]

27 minutes ago, lemoncurd said:

Imperial March at 2:12 – was this in the movie?!

 

Yep! 0:11:27

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Since the video clip of his cameo was well received. I decided to upload this whole thing too. 

[Amer 2,080]

Another good thing I picked up is that they [lucasfilm] have access to that BBC Williams'EMPIRE  documentary. So once its decided to ever put this out in high quality dvd that would be great. Someday...

[Thor 7,465]

2 hours ago, Amer said:

Another good thing I picked up is that they [lucasfilm] have access to that BBC Williams'EMPIRE  documentary. So once its decided to ever put this out in high quality dvd that would be great. Someday...

 

That would be great. I've had that since the late 90s (on a CD-R), and have wanted a better version ever since. It's really the best Williams documentary out there, not only about STAR WARS, but in general, since it touches on several other scores as well (including IMAGES!).

[TheUlyssesian 2,473]

10 hours ago, p0llux said:

 

Since the video clip of his cameo was well received. I decided to upload this whole thing too. 

thanks for sharing. The only feature I needed from this godawful film.

 

It was too short. I think it was all filmed in 1 day. You can see JJ has the same shirt on throughout. So maybe like a token feature.

 

Pardon the expression but JJ looks at Williams as if wants to swallow his dick whole. All the more insulting then than he butchers the score any chance he gets.

[Luke Skywalker 1,792]

Yeah I don't understand. I would be shy to even tell.him to rescore a scene....

[TheUlyssesian 2,473]

JJ in the editing room with moist eyes and hand on heart, "This music is so good sooooo good, really John has done such an amazing job....

 

Okay now this cue, chop the first 30 seconds, delete the last 45, get the 23 seconds from Empire and splice it to these 10 seconds, change the pitch and slightly speed it up but make sure it does not get in the way of that killer Foley effect of the plane flying....

 

But really, what a great job John has done."

[Fabulin 3,510]

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[MikeH 768]

6 hours ago, Thor said:

 

That would be great. I've had that since the late 90s (on a CD-R), and have wanted a better version ever since. It's really the best Williams documentary out there, not only about STAR WARS, but in general, since it touches on several other scores as well (including IMAGES!).

I don’t know if this has ever been posted but 16 minutes were uploaded in pristine quality:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/john-williams-scoring-empire-1980/zfxvnrd

[Thor 7,465]

6 minutes ago, MikeH said:

I don’t know if this has ever been posted but 16 minutes were uploaded in pristine quality:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/john-williams-scoring-empire-1980/zfxvnrd

 

Wow, that's great. Bring on the whole restored thing....NOW!

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Thanks, @MikeH!!

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[MikeH 768]

Someone should do an in-depth interview with Ramiro Belgardt to get some technical insights into John’s process with the sequels. I’m thinking more about the day to day nitty-gritty details of them having to keep up with an ever-changing edit, decisions about tracking cues, the revision process, etc.

 

JW’s pencil and paper process vs the ‘modern movie machine’ is really an incredible feat.