[Perdogg]

I like this Soundtrack. Earlier I said Morricone would win the Oscar, but I think Mary Sue Jedi's leitmotif is brilliant, and alone will give Williams the Oscar.

[Perdogg]

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[Fiddlstix]

Click The Pics & Text For Christmas Music

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[Secret Agent Man]

Because Lucas wrote some really crappy screenplays and dialog?

[atc23]

“Move, ball”. . . LOLZ

[ctdonath2]

Pointless anecdote: I took college chemistry from Ben Burt’s father. He started the first lab by showing the clip of Darth Vader boarding the rebel ship.

[Publius]

Williams sits up there with Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman.

[EinNYC]

Just saw Star Wars last night with my neighbors. When just the TITLE came onto the screen, there was mass cheering. When the Millennium Falcon first came into view, cheers and clapping erupted in the theater. Yeah, everyone was having a good time. The story was exciting, and everyone was on the edge of their seat.

The extremely elegant score by John Williams absolutely puts the film in a higher class than it would be without those beautiful and inspiring strains.

Now we're wondering how long it will be until the next installment of Star Wars comes out. That there WILL be another one is abundantly foreshadowed.

[o_1_2_3__]

spuck fotify.

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[BenLurkin]

John Williams - Rey’s Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65As1V0vQDM

[Bayard]

What the ending of Star wars IV looks like without music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI

[Lady Heron]

Nobody really thinks about what a difference music makes to a movie. One of the best ways to see how different a movie can be because of music is to get both versions of the 1985 movie “Legend” with Tom Cruise, Tim Curry and Mia Sarah. It had two releases with different sound tracks. One was a total bomb and the other a success.

[DCBryan1]

DRAMATIC CHORD

[Thorliveshere]

I agree, it’s absolute superb! If it wasn’t for John Williams, I would never liked classical music.

[VermiciousKnid]

Williams’ score is fantastic; I’ve liked every one of them. And speaking of leitmotifs, his use of the Dies Irae at the end of Luke’s leitmotif is terrific. You may be interested in this video discussing Williams’ (and others’) use of the Dies Irae in their music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLgvKwOYniY

Merry Christmas!

[llmc1]

Rey’s theme was definitely a favorite, but I appreciated all of it more during the second viewing.

[nomad]

I find it sad that today the classical style is really only used, and yet often not really appreciated, in movies and video gaming. The score makes the movie/entertainment and without it, it all too often would simply fall flat.

Movie aside, so much of modern popular culture is, to degrees, an embarrassment to or debasement of human culture. It is ironic how any grace and beauty that is given to it is done so by the employment by one of the greatest achievements of human culture. Made even more ironic by the fact the sheople who would use it, would disdain the medium by itself.