[HPFGU-Movie] John Williams

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/10/2003 5:36:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

> 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.
> 
> Lea :)
> 
> Wendy Moncur <wendy.moncur at nre.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> I have been a huge fan of John Williams for over 20 years. I have 
> noticed how his scores now are sounding very familiar. eg play the 
> main track of Harry Potter, then play the main track to "Home Alone".
> Methinks I hear a very familiar sounding "young boy" theme.
> 
> I'm not saying they are the same, just reminiscent of one another. 
> It's like, if you intensively study 20 of Monet's paintings, and then 
> you look at one more, you'd instantly recognise the style of Monet. 
> You just say yeah, it's his work alright.
> 
Williams' style has been apparent in all the movies he's done, to my ear.  
He's quite fond of brass, of big sounds, of grand and glorious swells and lots 
of instruments.  Danny Elfman, who did the title theme of Harry Potter, is 
known for his quirky, odd style of music with intriguing dissonances and 
disjointed melodies, which so well suits Harry Potter's theme, as well as to lots of 
Tim Burton's films ("Batman," that Halloween-type cartoon thing whose name just 
escaped me, etc.)  I was glad to hear Elfman's music as the main theme, 
Williams' as the rest of the music -- a good blend for the subject matter.  Well 
chosen composers, IMO.  I can understand Williams forgetting details about the HP 
movie because he's probably done LOTS of scores since he did the ones for CoS 
and SS/PS, and he probably has never seen them in a theater, nor gotten as 
obsessed with HP as we are.  Plus, at our age (he's a bit older than I am), 
forgetfulness does start to rear it's ugly head.  My doctor says it's "clutter" 
not Alzheimers, and I'm sure Williams has a more cluttered brain than I do!  ;->

Lynda 
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