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John, i hope you have found the beauty and the peace and the love that your talents as a composer have given to so many people over the years, on the other side, whatever we want to believe the other side is.
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Heartfelt thanks, Neo, for your unremitting reminders of John Barry's importance to many of us - and just as critically, to keep the flame burning for future generations.
Chris
Seconded.
Nice post, great thread.
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Nice one Neo
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From our Interview with the Real, not Reel, J.B. Department:
“I think the cinema is the concert hall of the future. I mean, when you think about it: writing, say,
an hour’s worth of music for a Bond film, the audience you’re hitting within a month’s time is phenomenal
– nobody’s ever had that kind of audience before.
Film is a very special area and a very unique art form. I don’t believe I’ve ever worked on a film where
I didn’t learn something. There’s always something different in terms of possibly going in another direction.
“You start working subconsciously very early on,” he reflected. “For me, it’s usually a cleaning out process
of what not to do. I find it easier to chip away, like a sculptor, to discover what the shape is. You can have a
specific concept regarding how you want to go about something but, occasionally, it’s switched around by what’s on the screen.
Everyone reads a script in a slightly different way, but it’s what you finally have up there on celluoid which you
ultimately have to go with, not what you think the movie should’ve been - which is a fatal trap to fall into.
“Any good film I’ve ever scored, the Goodness of it has been there in the script and in the direction, which makes my job 10 times easier. I mean, it’s like you see a movie that good, you tend to say ‘You don’t need any music’, and then you have the luxury of riding on the crest of those marvelous moments. It’s like anything else – when the team’s good, and its working, there’s nothing more exhilarating.
"It’s really rewarding when all the elements come together and everything takes off; I mean, that’s one thing you learn in this business: when it’s there, everybody knows it.”
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Happy Birthday John Barry. "Goldfinger" was the score that got me hooked on you, thanks to the soundtrack album (I saw the film when it premiered on "The A.B.C. Sunday Movie" in 1972).
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