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One composer, two films, same year...
Posted on 4/19/26 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 4/19/26 at 5:09 pm
It still floors me to this day that John Williams composed the soundtracks for both Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year. While I would argue that Schindler's List is the overall better soundtrack and features a memorable main theme all by itself, the sheer power of the main theme from Jurassic Park makes it one of the most iconic themes ever composed for a motion picture:
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Posted on 4/19/26 at 5:09 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:16 pm to RollTide1987
Jurassic Park is my favorite score of his.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 7:25 pm to RollTide1987
quote:Two composers, two films, same score
One composer, two films, same year
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:50 pm to RollTide1987
It's honestly wild how the bar for film scores feels lower now, when not that long ago we were living through a stacked era of absolute titans..Today it feels like truly great composers are rare and Hans Zimmer is really one of the only modern names who consistently carries that larger than life presence. I know there are a few more but he immediately comes to mind.
Think about what we had overlapping at one point in most of our lives... John Williams, John Barry, James Horner, Zimmer, etc.
Now you've got absolute trash like Giacchino whose music is just downright embarrassingly bad scoring every other blockbuster film. None of his music is memorable and most of it sounds like static background noise. His JW scores were awful (compare them to Jurassic Park and TLW) and his Spiderman scores are so fricking bad, it's distracting (compare them to SM 1/2/3 and TASM 1 & 2). His Batman theme was the most bland and generic Caped Crusader theme ever (and compare it to TDK). His music is better suited for animation and Saturday morning cartoons, not epic superhero films.
Think about what we had overlapping at one point in most of our lives... John Williams, John Barry, James Horner, Zimmer, etc.
Now you've got absolute trash like Giacchino whose music is just downright embarrassingly bad scoring every other blockbuster film. None of his music is memorable and most of it sounds like static background noise. His JW scores were awful (compare them to Jurassic Park and TLW) and his Spiderman scores are so fricking bad, it's distracting (compare them to SM 1/2/3 and TASM 1 & 2). His Batman theme was the most bland and generic Caped Crusader theme ever (and compare it to TDK). His music is better suited for animation and Saturday morning cartoons, not epic superhero films.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 10:52 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
This is my chance to remind everyone to watch that documentary that came out last year about JW.
It’s incredible.
It’s incredible.
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 11:40 am
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:02 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
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Think about what we had overlapping at one point in most of our lives... John Williams, John Barry, James Horner, Zimmer, etc.
Yep. To say nothing of Thomas Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, and Michael Kamen.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 10:12 am to CocomoLSU
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This is my chance to remind everyone to watch that documentary thar came out last year about JW.
It’s incredible.
its tremendous
Posted on 4/20/26 at 11:45 am to Kafka
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King's Row
Wow. Lifelong SW fan who saw all of the OT in the theater on release and I've never heard that before. Nice find.
Here's Williams on Korngold:
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 11:50 am
Posted on 4/20/26 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
And most amazing about John Williams is that he did most of his composing and orchestrating himself. A lot of film composers nowadays just write the main themes and have a team of orchestrators and sound engineers to complete the details.
Williams did most of it himself.
Here's Conrad Pope, one of JW's orchestrators, talking about it:
Williams did most of it himself.
Here's Conrad Pope, one of JW's orchestrators, talking about it:
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