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May 23, 2016 - 4:01 PM
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RoryR
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I've been thinking about it, and I think -- but I could be misremembering -- that someone said it in a featurette or something on video (maybe as long back as when Laserdiscs ruled the earth), and the person may not have even meant it literally, but just off-the-cuff like, "The score came down to a coin flip between Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, and Williams won," but he may have meant it as Williams proved the one available.
I'm not an expert on the making of JAWS and haven't yet gotten around to even watching the Blu-ray I bought of it a few years ago, but for some reason, I think that's where I first heard it. In fact, I doubt now I ever read it -- unless I'm just misremembering. Of course, I could have just caught it here once and it stuck.
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May 24, 2016 - 3:52 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"...the person may not have even meant it literally, but just off-the-cuff like, "The score came down to a coin flip between Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, and Williams won," but he may have meant it as Williams proved the one available"
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I don't know if anybody ever said it in a documentary, but what we DO know, from the information at hand, is that Spielberg adored John Williams' music from LP's like The Reivers and The Cowboys (like I said, he wrote early screenplays while playing them), sought Williams out for Sugarland Express and got on really well with him.
Also, with Jaws being a Universal picture, I imagine Williams was a shoo-in for the job, having a relationship with the studio and coming off hits like Earthquake (for Universal), Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno.
Goldsmith had largely gone back to TV scoring in the period before Jaws.
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