artguy360 1,843 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 What is your opinion of Reunion from TROS? I am kind of fascinated by Reunion from TROS. To me it's like SW fan service. The track runs through so many themes, classic and new. The whole track is up tempo and light and the different themes all have a levity to them. It all begins with powerful, heralding brass, then it goes into a who's who medley of themes from Luke's theme to the Force theme to Poe's theme to Yoda's b-part & a-part, to Rey's theme, to Luke & Leia, and finally the friendship theme. It's a themes on parade track, all with a lighter tone. To me it's weird to have a track that is basically a ton of themes back to back outside of end credits. And many of the themes don't correlate to what's on the screen like Yoda's theme and Luke & Leia. I don't know. It's a weird track. What's your opinion of Reunion? https://youtu.be/lXACbiZIl4M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,278 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I really love all the original material in it, from the opening march to the variations on the sequel themes, the final statement of the friendship theme soars. In general I love the "themes on parade" feel of it. Yoda's Theme and Luke & Leia, bizarre. I would love to know how they ended up in there. But just for its own sake I still kinda love how they flow musically. Bounty95 and artguy360 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,653 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 4 hours ago, mrbellamy said: I really love all the original material in it, from the opening march to the variations on the sequel themes, the final statement of the friendship theme soars. In general I love the "themes on parade" feel of it. Yoda's Theme and Luke & Leia, bizarre. I would love to know how they ended up in there. But just for its own sake I still kinda love how they flow musically. I think those three characters were present as force ghosts in one of the many versions of this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherSound 2,242 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Tom said: I think those three characters were present as force ghosts in one of the many versions of this movie. I suppose it’s possible more than one version was recorded, but one of the documentaries shows Williams conducting this cue (9M3 Bows) with Maz giving Han’s medal to Chewie on his monitor as Yoda’s theme plays, same as in the film as released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,653 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Yeah, I am just speculating. Maybe by that point, Williams didn't care all that much and liked how Yoda's theme sounded. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 6 hours ago, Tom said: Yeah, I am just speculating. Maybe by that point, Williams didn't care all that much and liked how Yoda's theme sounded. Wouldn't be the first time he used Yoda's Theme without a hint of Yoda in the scene. IDK, for me, it almost feels like material written for the end credits suite and then shoehorned in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,653 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Yes, but Yoda, outside of being one of the many voices Rey hears, isn't even in the movie. I don't think he has stretched it that far before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,062 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 He's lurking just outside the frame in several scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,653 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Maybe even Yoda couldn't take Disney anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,062 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 He was past retirement age and therefore not considered sexy anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Opinion? It is wonderful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Mulder 153 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 On 18/06/2022 at 6:12 PM, artguy360 said: What's your opinion of Reunion? I would bet that the beginning came from Jurassic Park: Island Fanfare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,357 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 It is an appropriate ending for a completely messed up movie, for a messed up trilogy. The music seems almost completely unrelated to what goes on on screen. No Yoda. No Luke and Leia. Still the music on its own is great of course. Jurassic Shark and artguy360 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,062 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, GerateWohl said: The music seems almost completely unrelated to what goes on on screen. No Yoda. No Luke and Leia. I wonder how's @Falstaft's take on this. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Falstaft 2,132 Posted June 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2022 7 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: I wonder how's @Falstaft's take on this. I like it well enough. I would have preferred new arrangements of Yoda's theme and Luke & Leia, of course, to what's essentially a copy-paste situation. Though in the latter at least it's transposed from its TLJ appearance in E to F, and has a slightly different ending. All the newly composed material is great, and honestly I'm not that bothered by the loose usage of themes. Luke & Leia and Yoda's themes, in terms of their overall musical affect make plenty emotional sense for the sequence. So the whole cue is very satisfying, if not especially rigorously constructed. Suffice it so say, I'd vastly prefer leitmotifs being heard in unexpected places than leitmotifs not being heard in expected places (cough cough). Tom, BrotherSound, Ludwig and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,062 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Falstaft said: Suffice it so say, I'd vastly prefer leitmotifs being heard in unexpected places than leitmotifs not being heard in expected places (cough cough). Yeah, too bad JW didn't use any of Giacchino's themes. michael_grig and Falstaft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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