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[irbohlen]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "norsecode" <norsecode at y...> wrote:
> Here's another question, though: Do you think that main line of music 
> will be used in the other 6 movies (assuming Williams is kept on the 
> job)?  I can definitely see it being used for CoS.. and most probably 
> for PoA.. but I wonder if it will be total overkill and then some to 
> use it in all 7 movies (assuming all 7 are made).  Kind of like how 
> Star Wars had the same theme for episodes 4, 5, and 6.   Now it seems 
> that the same lines of music in episode 1 are being used in episode 2 
> (I just watched the trailer at the Star Wars site).  I could see the 
> music changing with GoF because that book/movie has a much darker 
> tone in it.

I'm guessing that Williams is on board for the next two films only. I'm not sure 
that anything is written in stone for GoF. I have read an article in which 
Columbus says he doesn't want to spend the rest of his professional career 
doing HP movies; and another in which he says he would like to stay with the 
same kids to the end of the books...so who knows? All I think we know for 
sure is that the kids/main actors, writer & director are signed on for the next 
two.

If Williams follows what he did with Star Wars he will probably use some of 
the same themes. I would like to see him do interesting variations along the 
lines of the way he made Annakin Skywalker's theme a neat inversion of 
Darth Vader's theme.

On a reread of the books, I'm struck yet again at what a terrific job JKR did in 
showing the kids' growth...the way they speak, their attitudes to adults, their 
confusion about their friendship for each other...and would like to see this 
expressed somehow, along with the increasing darkness [especially in PoA], 
in the musical language. Prisoner is plenty dark, even if not quite to GoF 
standards!

I think John Williams can do it, but can also imagine them changing director, 
cast, writer, and composer when they get to GoF. 

And I do get it now, the kids are going to grow/age faster than the "year" of 
each book...*sigh* 

Ivis the elderly