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Your Dos and Don'ts for the upcoming John Williams documentary


GerateWohl

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The documentary should give the floor to John Wiliams' close friends and collaborators as well as directors he worked with, not only Steven Spielberg.

 

@Jay should be interviewed too, to talk about JWFAN! :D

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I want to see a diverse portfolio of footage covering JW's entire career with some emphasise on the breakthrough in the 70s, not just the recent stuff circling around repetitive anecdotes and Spielberg's coming-of-age ego trip. 

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11 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

@Ricard is the creator, founder, and sole owner of JWFan.  I just moderate the forums

 

But you do the PR and you are a consultant on many expansions now!

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37 minutes ago, Andy said:

I would like to hear from orchestra players and industry specialists to tell us non-musical people the why's and how's that make his writing special.  We can all hear it and get the emotional response, but some insight from the pros would be cool.

 

@Falstaft's book Hollywood Harmony says hello.

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Maurizio's podcast was precisely what I had in mind when I posted.  If it's to be talking heads, let it be from the ones who can share what no one on the outside can.   But really, I want session footage and LOTS of it.  

 

I also want an awesome physical painted MOVIE POSTER that I can hang on the wall.

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4 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

cookies from ASM

 

For some reason ASM annoys the crap out of me, and her violin performances are, shall we say, not to my tastes.

 

So a big don't is to spend half the documentary saying how amazing all of his collaborators are.

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6 minutes ago, Andy said:

He loves film music. (He told me so and his favorite score is Morricone’s Cinema Paradisio.)

 

Not ToD?

 

1 hour ago, Bellosh said:

I wanna see JW working through a theme or piece that quite isn't there yet. Seeing some sort of rough version of a theme we may already know and love.  I want to see that down and dirty creative process of getting something right. How he deals with it.  His creative process.

 

The Jaws theme when it evolved from one note into two?

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One thing that did occur to me with this doc that I am actually kind of worried about is the potential for musical mistakes. I was reminded of this thread with Williams talking about the "7th on the bottom" in Bouzereau's Indy featurette and it was concluded that an inaccurate example had been used, and that even Williams himself may have been misremembering how he'd used the technique...

 

 

 

So I don't know, I would hope Williams would have enough care and oversight on this as opposed to a DVD featurette, and that anything he might say about a score is illustrated correctly or clarified, but it definitely strikes me as the kind of thing that could open itself up to mistakes...

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16 minutes ago, Thor said:

I doubt this documentary -- whatever form it takes, or whoever makes it -- will provide us hardcore Williams fans with much new information


This is probably the truth of it all.

 

Still, what a wonderful thing that a proper documentary is finally being produced.

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On 21/01/2023 at 10:12 AM, Thor said:

Tornatore's ENNIO: THE MAESTRO

Made a pilgrimage to the local art house cinema for that one and absolutely loved it (even suggested to the projectionist that she might increase the volume because of the score excerpts); it's a shame that Spielberg doesn't feel up to something similar (anymore)...

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On 21/01/2023 at 3:12 AM, Thor said:

 Tornatore's ENNIO: THE MAESTRO).

 

No doubt Bouzerau has seen it.  Perhaps it will inspire him to up his game.  Or inspire Spielberg to force Bouzerau to up his game.

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40 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:

Given only anecdotal evidence of the Schindler's comment to date, I would confidently predict JWFan would go nuts if it turned out SS had filmed the exchange.

 

It would be up there with "Where is the horizon?"

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