Popular Post Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 Not sure if this has been shared anywhere yet. Variety: For ‘Indiana Jones 5,‘ John Williams Scored ’An Hour and a Half of Music, Maybe More’ Quote The composer finished recording the score for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” on Feb. 10 and, while he suggested last summer that the final Harrison Ford adventure would be the last of his 100-plus film scores, that’s not quite the truth. “I might have meant that at the moment,” he says with a smile, “but you never want to say no unequivocally. If Steven or another director should come along with something that is so moving that you want to drop the phone and rush to the piano and have it all come out — should that happen, with the appropriate energy needed to do it, I wouldn’t rule out a situation like that.” Recording for the final “Indiana Jones” film – and three of the previous editions, starting with 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” were Oscar-nominated for their music – began last June 28, and has continued off and on since then. “It’s certainly got to be an hour and a half of music, maybe more,” Williams estimates. “But I’m quite happy with it. There’s a lot of new material. The old material works very well as a touchstone of memory, but I had great fun, and I have a theme that I’ve written for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the wonderful actress.” She plays Helena Shaw, reportedly Indy’s goddaughter. Williams introduced her theme last summer at the Hollywood Bowl at the suggestion of director James Mangold. “And I enjoyed doing it last week with the San Francisco Symphony with [violinist] Anne-Sophie Mutter, who I arranged it for, for that concert. And I think I’ll play it in Chicago next month.” The composer praised the script and performances of both Ford and Waller-Bridge in the film, which opens June 30. “Harrison is wonderful in it. He looks great, he moves beautifully. The best part of it for me is the writing and the interplay of dialogue between Harrison and Phoebe, like the old-style Hepburn-and-Tracy kind of bickering. It’s witty and bright and snappy, like a duet that goes on for two hours.” The “Indiana Jones” scores, Williams notes, “are unified by Indy’s theme, and the general style of the film, which is in my mind a kind of action-comedy, because you never take the action seriously. It’s certainly a swashbuckling affair from beginning to end, fashioned more like movies of the ’30s and ’40s where the orchestra is racing along with the action, which you wouldn’t do in contemporary films very much.” He liked working with Mangold, who he described as “ebullient” and “a lovely man. He’s done a very, very expert job on a very difficult kind of film to make.” Some great other bits in there too about various things. Edit: Thanks for making this its own thread, Jay. I'm always scared to pull the trigger on those things. Edmilson, Tydirium, Brando and 9 others 4 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,658 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Nice article. I would like to have read that the piano concerto is underway, but such is life. I hope we get a couple other big themes from Indy. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando 1,863 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 23 minutes ago, Cerebral Cortex said: “But I’m quite happy with it. There’s a lot of new material. The old material works very well as a touchstone of memory, but I had great fun, and I have a theme that I’ve written for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the wonderful actress.” Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 there's probably 2 hours and a half but he doesn't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 37,364 Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 Or he scored an hour and a half and someone else scored the rest Brando, Muad'Dib, Manakin Skywalker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,348 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Jay said: Or he scored an hour and a half and someone else scored the rest Lin-Manuel Miranda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark 316 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 It’s Hans Zimmer. The great collaboration of our time! Martinland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,287 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Honestly it would be so refreshing if this is an indication that the movie is under 2 hours. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Manakin Skywalker 4,894 Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 Reminds me of this classic... Martinland, Edmilson, Hego-Damask-II and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawel P. 738 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Great reading! And the second concert in Japan, in Tokyo. Higher chance that one of them will be filmed. Amer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,316 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Great news! Though Mangold said the Dial of Destiny score was 2 hours long before they'd even finished recording? Chewy and Holko 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Is it possible to have "scored an hour and a half of music"? Surely it should read: "scored an hour and a half of the film"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,223 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 15 hours ago, crumbs said: Great news! “…maybe more.” Basically, the Maestro scored OVER 90 minutes of music, hence “2 hours of brilliant music”; hence, “it’s a huge score and 99% in the film.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brando 1,863 Posted February 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 hours ago, crumbs said: Dildo of Destiny Manakin Skywalker, Cerebral Cortex and crumbs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,456 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 We are only going to listen to 60 minutes of movie cues on the OST album anyway (the other 15 minutes will be concert arrangements). Manakin Skywalker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,348 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Is it possible to have "scored an hour and a half of music"? Surely it should read: "scored an hour and a half of the film"? Well, when they write music, they write it down on a score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post artguy360 1,843 Posted February 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2023 Every time I click this thread I get more and more excited for this score and OST. I am beyond hyped for more JW in Indy music mode. Edmilson, Cerebral Cortex, ThePenitentMan1 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, artguy360 said: Every time I click this thread I get more and more excited for this score and OST. I am beyond hyped for more JW in Indy music mode. I feel in retrospect the Disney ST almost served as an exercise for Williams to get back into blockbuster mode. I personally feel like the action music got better in each entry. Imagine him now getting to do another big blockbuster but with a film that might actually inspire him creatively and with a character he cares about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 well we'll have the OST and the Oscar promo with some unreleased music in 128kbps MP3's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett 153 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 As a comparison, how much music did he write for the other four Indy films? It's good to hear that he wrote a lot of new material. In my opinion, the Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker scores suffered from too much rehashing of old material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chewy 2,391 Posted February 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2023 5 hours ago, crumbs said: Though Mangold said the Duomo of Destiny score was 2 hours long before they'd even finished recording? Fixed Holko, crumbs and Brando 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,013 Posted February 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2023 Oh so they dropped 30 minutes of the score already Empire-style? 😏 Karol Brando, crumbs and BrotherSound 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crumbs 14,316 Posted February 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2023 Reassuring tweet from Mangold about the music's treatment in the sound mix! Muad'Dib, Tiburon, Brando and 6 others 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienSS 407 Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 24/02/2023 at 10:50 PM, Stark said: It’s Hans Zimmer. The great collaboration of our time! You know, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. Joni Wiljami 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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