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Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer are very good composers, but Zimmer is probably the most imitated in terms of the use of low horns and strings blended with synthesizers. Gladiator, Sherlock Holmes, Driving Miss Daisy and Crimson Tide were noted scores. If you listen to the score to Man Of Steel, you could hear a snippet of music from Broken Arrow. Not unusual since other composers use parts of previous work to enhance the score.

Danny Elfman has sort of slowed down when he DoD films like Milk and Dark Shadows. He should be given another action adventure score and he would be back in form like he was in the 90's. I understand how you feel. Back in the 80's it took me a while to get into Jerry Goldsmith. I met a guy who was a big Goldsmith fan. But at that time, Goldsmith utilized a lot of synthesizers in his scores and a small orchestra. The synthesizer did the work of a large orchestra. Maurice Jarre even used it in his Firefox and No Way Out scores. Hollywood had amusicians strike. Back to Jerry Goldsmith. I remember buying the soundtracks to Patton, The Twilight Zone: The Movie, Gremlins and Poltergeist. I listened to Poltergeist and Twilight Zone in the dead of night and I was scared shitless. I had underestimated maestro Goldsmith and began to study his style, approaches and delivery. He was a man who used the music to get inside of a scene. He knew the precise moment to let the listener have and sometimes he'd use everything to give you a new experience. I have studied other composers and sometimes I could tell bu the approach in the music which composers it is. This is why film music is one of my great loves. It can take you to many places and it teaches you to listen closely. In the Shirley Walker score for Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Hans Zimmer played the synthesizer with a There in sound, offering a very creepy sound. I think you should listen not to make you feel a variety of emotions, but to experience the story as it is presented in the music.

 

To me, Zimmer's best composition came from The Da Vinci Code. Bland movie, but the music was phenomenal and I bought the soundtrack just for that. And he actually did Age of Ultron's music (Alan Silvestri was the original composer for the first Avengers), which was amazing. But, Elfman's low-key, eerie music often grips my ears in the film score side of music.

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

Respect is due to Mr. Elfman. I've never paid attention to the movies that I saw with Zimmer's score. I'll keep my eyes open (or ears peeled) in the future.

 

Listen to Crimson Tide, Gladiator, Man Of Steel, Sherlock Holmes, Broken Arrow for starters. You won't be disappointed.

 

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Thanks for the heads-up. I've seen all of those films but didn't pay attention to the score. Well, maybe with the exception of Gladiator.

Thanks, MS! I'll check it out tonight at bedtime.

 

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They speak, but still no Luke.

 

The 1:40 mark. The hooded person touching the R2 unit.....could be? Has the cybernetic right hand same as Luke.....

 

Yeah, I think your right, but I thought we would have at least got a face shot of him. Well, at least we got to see Leia.

Speaking of Leia, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get to see her use the force, even if it's just a little bit.

 

I think Luke appearing is one of the things they don't want to spoil just yet. I think they will probably give teasers in regards to him the closer to release time and save the full reveal for or just after premiere time.

 

Yes, that's Luke. This is supposed to track the storyline, but I'm not clear about how far this takes place after the Return of the Jedi, i.e. Palpatine's clones, spirit, etc, or later than that?

 

Based on the bit of Han Solo dialogue quite a bit of time that it seems to suggest that the Jedi/Sith connection to events of the original Trilogy are viewed as myth.

 

Interesting. As soon as finals are over, I'm going to pick up a few of the Palpatine clone series novels to get caught up.

 

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Wish I could rep
Great video. God that woman is gorgeous
They look great together. 11/20 Can't get here soon enough

 

The interaction between them sure is something :smt047