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Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: John Williams' Comedy Scores    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Jan 1, 2018 - 2:55 PM     By:   Clemens   (Member) The only quasi-comedy score which springs to mind is FAMILY PLOT --- and I know that it is technically NOT a comedy score, just a HITCHCOCK flic --- but --- it is filled with much more fun than is usual.    Posted:   Jan 2, 2018 - 7:49 AM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) My two favorites would be "Home Alone" and "John Goldfarb Please Come Home". As "Fitzwilly" was my entry lp to Mr. Williams, that has always been one of my favorites, too.    Posted:   Jan 2, 2018 - 7:53 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) JOHN GOLDFARB, really? I've always considered this Williams' worst film AND score. But at the same time, I'm confident he could have "saved it" somewhat if he'd gone into the studio to rerecord it, like he did with several others in the 60s. Alas, that never happened.    Posted:   Jan 2, 2018 - 8:12 AM     By:   pete   (Member) JOHN GOLDFARB, really? I've always considered this Williams' worst film AND score. Fawz Cha-Cha 1 and 2 always bring a smile to my face. They remind me of Gilligan's Island even though it's been decades since I've seen an episode.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2018 - 8:52 AM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) Re Goldfarb...I would never say it is a great film or a great score -- just a huge nostalgic favorite. I saw it in a movie theater first run when I was 12, and even at that age I was aware of the PR controversy surrounding Notre Dame and its football team as portrayed in the film. At that tender age, it was a total and amazing hoot-o-rama. I also loved Shirley MacLaine as a kid and saw all of her movies -- and it was fun seeing Richard Crenna in a movie when all I knew him from was the TV sitcom "The Real McCoys" (with Walter Brennan) which was a staple of early TV. So it is really about nostalgia, not quality, in this case.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2018 - 9:27 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Understandable. We all have 'guilty pleasures' like that. I saw it for the first time some 10 years ago, and thought it was one of the worst movies I had ever seen. It was even difficult getting through it.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2018 - 11:08 AM     By:   CCW1970   (Member) My favorite John Williams score for a comedy film is Monsignor. Heh. Nice.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2018 - 11:13 AM     By:   CCW1970   (Member) The choices are: NOT WITH MY WIFE YOU DON'T BACHELOR FLAT JOHN GOLDFARB PLEASE COME HOME FITZWILLY HOW TO STEAL A MILLION GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN HEARTBEEPS PENELOPE HOME ALONE I guess HEARTBEEPS I'd have to add 1941 and HOME ALONE 2 to that list. If I had to pick the top three: 1941 HOME ALONE FITZWILLY (frigging love the overture!)    Posted:   Jan 4, 2018 - 5:01 AM     By:   governor   (Member) How to steal a Million A delightful comedy by William Wyler, a a splendid score from Mr Williams which marked also his first collaboration with Leslie Bricusse for the song two lovers. Too bad some of the session tapes were too damaged to be included on the Intrada release.    Posted:   Jan 4, 2018 - 3:49 PM     By:   leagolfer   (Member) Williams never wrote a huge amount of comedy so it makes the pick a little easier. Actually, percent-wise, Williams has written more comedies than quite a few composers. He's also been in the game longer than anyone 65 years in the business, % wise, not that many in his career.    Posted:   Jan 4, 2018 - 4:15 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) He's also been in the game longer than anyone 65 years in the business, % wise, not that many in his career. Wrong. Percent-wise means in relation to his whole body of work. It's irrelevant how long he's been in the business. So percent-wise of his total film output -- YES, quite a few comedies. 75% of his 1960s was ALL about comedies, for example.    Posted:   Jan 5, 2018 - 7:26 AM     By:   leagolfer   (Member) He's also been in the game longer than anyone 65 years in the business, % wise, not that many in his career. Wrong. Percent-wise means in relation to his whole body of work. It's irrelevant how long he's been in the business. So percent-wise of his total film output -- YES, quite a few comedies. 75% of his 1960s was ALL about comedies, for example. Some Williams comedies don't class as much comedy, social thriller, social drama, some themed more with a romance-fun they have zest of comedy if being picky. I wouldn't exactly call all them 100% comedy scores when compared, say, Home Alone's.    Posted:   Jan 5, 2018 - 7:55 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Some Williams comedies don't class as much comedy, social thriller, social drama, some themed more with a romance-fun they have zest of comedy if being picky. I wouldn't exactly call all them 100% comedy scores when compared, say, Home Alone's. Some of the films in question are indeed borderline or a 'mix' of genres, but very many are unequivocally pure comedies. More than most other composers, except those that have been pigeonholed in the genre for a long time (I'm looking at you, Theodore Shapiro or Christophe Beck!).    Posted:   Jan 6, 2018 - 2:28 PM     By:   leagolfer   (Member) Some Williams comedies don't class as much comedy, social thriller, social drama, some themed more with a romance-fun they have zest of comedy if being picky. I wouldn't exactly call all them 100% comedy scores when compared, say, Home Alone's. Some of the films in question are indeed borderline or a 'mix' of genres, but very many are unequivocally pure comedies. More than most other composers, except those that have been pigeonholed in the genre for a long time (I'm looking at you, Theodore Shapiro or Christophe Beck!). Yes, 2 good examples in comedy now, Beck, i know of more, Pink Panther. I'm wondering some early Williams comedies are dormant, i like em, but I don't want to experience music threw the movie anymore, hopefully a label will fulfil 1-2 this year.     General Discussion: John Williams' Comedy Scores    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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