[HPFGU-Movie] Re: John Williams

GulPlum hp at plum.cream.org
Tue Jun 10 12:41:00 UTC 2003


At 03:17 10/06/03 , Lea wrote:
>Good Point. Howard Shore did the music for Lord of the Rings and he also 
>did the music for Jurassic Park, which I watched the other day for the 
>first time.  The music really freaked me out because of the similarity and 
>I kept expecting a Hobbit or Gandolf to appear at any time.

Huh?

All three Jurassic Park movies were scored by John Williams. And I can't 
really see any similarity with the LOTR movies at all. The JPs are typical 
Williams wall-to-wall bombast with very little subtlety (just like the two 
HP movies, IMO). If you want subtlety from Williams (of which he is 
certainly capable), then try Amistad, Schindler's List or Catch Me If You 
Can (all very different stylistically and thematically, but individually 
great).

Shore is a very different composer to Williams and tends not to write great 
sweeping "themes" (one of Williams' foibles which really irritates me, to 
be honest), but music which is there to serve what happens on the screen, 
and not to jump out at you, grab you by the neck and not let go.

So again, I'm really sure where you see the similarities between JP and 
Shore's LOTR material. JP III might give some room for confusion, but the 
first one?








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