Remco 685 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I hope this is an attempt at humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 3 hours ago, Docteur Qui said: The BFG was a lovely movie and score. It’s a spiritual counterpart to Hook (or ever Potter 1), just as Tintin was to Raiders. As such, they’re entirely inessential, but it’s nice to see two masters revisit previous genres with some new tricks up their sleeves. If the movie was released in the 90’s (animation style notwithstanding - the score and storytelling I mean), it would be considered a classic. It was released as animation. On DVD. Just as boring. Im not sure why SS was attracted to this LESSER Dahl story Same goes for the dreadful TT. Methinks he just wanted to explore motion capture tech. Those films were so bad I skipped RPO ( plus video games hold no interest). WH is the last score I loved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 BFG was terrible and the music uninteresting. Spielberg bragged that his cgi was better than Avatar. Fool bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy 2,388 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Disagreed, and disagreed. Joni Wiljami and Remco 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,416 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 i still have never listened to this score. probably because i haven't seen the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Schilkeman 961 Posted June 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2021 I enjoy the movie, and believe it to be underrated, same with Tintin, but the score is something else. There's a pall of twilight over the whole film, and that's represented in the music. If it lacks immediacy, that's because dreams do as well. It is a masterclass in orchestration. Holko, Tom, Jay and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,356 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 8/11/2020 at 8:37 PM, mrbellamy said: The point is that there was never a recorded Jurassic Park suite that featured the High Wire Stunt melody and which he later removed in concert lol We're talking about this in the BFG suite on album which he's since nixed in performances It does bum me out because it's my favorite of the score and one of my favorite JW themes of the decade. I don't know why he felt like cutting it, must just be one of those things where he felt like it was a spot he could tighten it up. Could be he just doesn't think it's interesting enough or interrupts the more propulsive whimsical stuff. I could imagine that Williams left out that theme from the concert arragement because it is very similar to Song for World Peace. So, two different concert pieces with almost the same melody might confuse the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 There would have been riots in the concert hall. JW was merely putting our safety first. GerateWohl and Taikomochi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crlbrg 381 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 There would be a riot in my brain if the FYC ever leaked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 1,843 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 The colorful orchestrations are the real highlight of this score. It has some decent themes and interesting little musical bits, but it reminds me a lot of Tintin in that it's nice, light, colorful music that doesn't really stick with me afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Falstaft 2,132 Posted June 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2021 7 hours ago, Schilkeman said: I enjoy the movie, and believe it to be underrated, same with Tintin, but the score is something else. There's a pall of twilight over the whole film, and that's represented in the music. If it lacks immediacy, that's because dreams do as well. It is a masterclass in orchestration. Beautifully put, @Schilkeman. In a way, it's a shame most listeners' exposure to the score is through the concert arrangement, since, while perfectly nice, it leaves out some of the most extraordinary instrumental writing in the score proper. Just take this passage from "Dream Country," from the celesta theme at 6:30 to its transformation in the strings at 7:30. It alone is more breathtaking in terms of its orchestrational skill & imagination than basically anything by any other major living film composer in the past 40 years. BrotherSound, Schilkeman, ins and 8 others 6 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Schilkeman 961 Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 Yes, I also love the little transition at 1:18, bringing in the high strings for contrast between the two sections. It's not just the themes with Williams, Horner and Shore have great themes, it's what he does in between that separates him, and this score. Falstaft, Taikomochi, crumbs and 6 others 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,651 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 This is the music of a sweet and brilliant old man (Williams, that is) capturing the innocence of childhood--not sure our jaded sardonic world (as seen even in most films for children) is capable of finding beauty in it. Chewy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schilkeman 961 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 It's a very earnest film, for sure. I see it getting something of a cult following for that very reason. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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