PoA music...not that we have a choice.

Tim tmarends at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 31 16:06:36 UTC 2003


I suggest you go back and re-examine the Star Wars and Indiana Jones 
scores.  And who can forget the Jaws theme.  Just hearing that music 
makes you afraid to go into the water.

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> 
wrote:
> Am I the only one who simply can't hear a John Williams's score 
> alongside the pictures of PoA that were all excitedly viewing. 
Don't 
> get me wrong, I enjoy Williams's music-- I do, but to quote our 
> beloved potions master (and to direct that quote toward John 
> Williams) "you have no subtlety...." Argh!
> 
> I just don't hear his music when I think about the dark and 
> foreboding sort of things that fill PoA. Speaking of "A Little 
> Princess" and the magical realism genre, which I did earlier, I 
> really liked the use of choral music in that film.  Of course I 
like 
> Choral music in general, but it can be so rich and alternately so 
> bleak...exactly what we need for this story. I can just here a 
> cacophony of anguished moaning and chanting for Azkaban (and 
> possibly as a theme for Sirius). 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Will we get the same old same old, or something a bit different? Is 
> that waaay too much for which to hope?
> 
> Scott





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