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YOR is sure that the guys who work for McDonald's would say that the inventor of the Big Mac is a true visionary too, yes?
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I find it curious that Powell, a guy I have a tremendous amount of respect for (and scores CDs of too!) has basically walked away from film scoring. I believe he broke away from RC to an extent even though he co composed Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 with Zimmer.
Just think if he and Gregson Williams were still under Zimmer's wing what MOS might have sounded like...(disclaimer- I like a good portion of MOS as it is but I'd be lying if I said I didnt wonder what Powell would have done with that project...)
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And what were you expecting when you posted the original article? That people will gather around and chant the Zimmer anthem?
"A - E - I - O - U"
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I find it curious that Powell, a guy I have a tremendous amount of respect for (and scores CDs of too!) has basically walked away from film scoring. I believe he broke away from RC to an extent even though he co composed Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 with Zimmer.
Just think if he and Gregson Williams were still under Zimmer's wing what MOS might have sounded like...(disclaimer- I like a good portion of MOS as it is but I'd be lying if I said I didnt wonder what Powell would have done with that project...)
John Powell said he is on sabbatical. Guy was doing like 50 films a year. He deserves a break. (And frankly, after too much work, his quality started to decline.)
And you can hear his Man of Steel score in Hancock. A REAL "modern superman score"
Hancock was a terrific superheroe score. Death and Transfiguration is one of my favourite cues of his.
And to the guy wh said we got animated scores by good composers in Powell's absense, watch HTTYD and tell me what part of that score was bad. It's one of the best scored films ive ever seen. And the architecture of the score is as deep as anything I've heard from anyone else who's scored films. Every note in it is either a quote from his main thematic material or else developed upon it in some way.
You don't have to like it but to dismiss it as the work of a lesser composer is just way off the mark.
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Powell has hardly left film-scoring. He just took some time off, which was well described and documented in the interviews he gave about a year ago. Well, he's back now scoring RIO 2 and HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2.
The same with HGW. Not sure what he's been working on, but I suppose they'll both be back sooner than later.
Not a big reason for celebration. At least in their absence we got a couple fine animated scores from decent composers for a change.
Glad to hear about Powell - I knew he was taking some sort of extended vacation, but I'm glad he's back to work - I adored his HTTYD and can't wait to see how he follows that up.
As for HGW, I remember hearing that he was taking about a year's time to go back to England - I think it involved teaching somewhere, but don't quote me on that.
As for the article, it's definitely a good read. Very interesting that he's never had a score rejected. If we could actually discuss the article at hand instead of Yor-hugger comparing Zimmer to Hitler, we might learn a few things! But I digress.
There is always the ignore button. I don't have anyone on the list. Oh wait yeah there's one person on it who was ignorant enough to say Williams wrote better music than Stravinsky, Bartok and Mahler- sorry I draw the line at completely stupid people like that-
O well so much for that....
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What a classy and tasteful discussion.
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Jul 10, 2013 - 6:08 PM
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facehugger
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I don't think anyone expected that, but one could at least expect constructive criticism even if one disagreed with the statements. Not senseless bashing, which is essentially pointless, destructive and ultimately boring. It's the 'cop-out' solution when one has no arguments.
So please, offer an "intelligent" rebuttal and "constructive criticism" to my contempt of Mr. Levine, who equals "playing two notes with some discretion" to John-Cage-meets-Philip-Glass.
Or, if you can, please give "constructive criticism" to said comparison. I doubt you can, because Levine was talking bullshit, and with his classical training, he KNEW perfectly well he was talking bullshit. But he apparently learnt the hard lesson to "respect those in charge".
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