Posted on 02/08/2022 7:04:40 AM PST by Borges
I still like Korngold, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Hermann Alfred Newman and Miklos Rozsa.
Their music was so good it was often used other movies.
Yeah, I am old School.
Hahaha...I had a funny experience at that part of the movie...when the shark appeared, In involunartarily jerked my hand back and whacked some lady sitting next to me pretty hard.
Heh, she was so frightened by the scene she didn’t even notice it...:)
SW was Cowboys and Samurai fighting Nazis in Space.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Williams! Thank you for all the great movie music and memories.
An early Star Wars documentary shows scenes w/o music. Pretty lame. Also reviews from an early private screening, before music, we’re disastrous.
Jerome Moross - The Big Country soundtrack (and a believable movie.)
This is the best movie score ever. Haunting. It was used for ballet in later years.
“Imagine if there was background music during real time life.”
Anyone can be a great speaker if his utterances are accompanied by the proper background music.
Believe Jerry Goldsmith also did the Star Trek movies and TNG. And also The Waltons theme.
Williams stuff has too many flourishes and key shifts. Its like listening to the audio gymnastics of a NFL national anthem singer, to me. Fingernails on a chalk board.
Nobody has written more immediately recognizable themes than John Williams. Is it even close?
Who here liked the Airport (1970) soundtrack? I was thinking about that one and found that Alfred Newman also did Wuthering Heights, How The West Was Won, and How Green Was My Valley.
“or Hans Zimmer”
I suppose deaf people who can only pick up booming bass vibrations need a favorite composer too.
Bernard Herrmann did The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, North by Northwest, and Taxi Driver, among others. His music certainly helped to make those three alone very outstanding movies.
Forgot to add in Psycho to my comment about Herrmann.
Go see post 9 on this thread.
IMO Jerry Goldsmith did better stuff too. I whistle the theme from Patton even to this day. Rarely, if ever, do I whistle the theme from Superman.
I mentioned in one of my posts that Goldsmith also did the Star Trek movies and the TNG series. His Star Trek music is probably just as recognizable as Alexander Courage’s work.
Zimmer uses the same “atmospheric” soundscape in every film these days. Williams has also written a fair amount of concert music. A bassoon concerto etc. But his score from say Schindler’s List is fantastic.
Zimmer....meh! I'll take Williams, Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Morricone over Zlummber anyway.
"The Magnificent Seven"(the real one with Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Charles Johnson) is the other.
It was interesting to read up on Alexander Courage (Star Trek TOS music) and find that he did the orchestrations for some of John Williams’ work such as The Poseidon Adventure and Superman.
Courage’s work makes the Star Trek: The Cage pilot in it’s entirety (not cut up to fit into the TOS episode “The Menagerie”) the more enjoyable to watch and I read about how back in the mid 1980s, the original master tapes to The Cage soundtrack were discovered in a Paramount warehouse building after thought to have been long lost.
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