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LOG IN Forgot Login? 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 3      General Discussion: What If Jerry Did E.T. ?     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 9:31 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) It would be full of synths?    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 9:35 AM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) I'm disappointed. I was expecting something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3z52DFPIqg    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 9:38 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Didn't Spielberg impress upon Goldsmith to drop (or tone down) the synths on POLTERGEIST?    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 9:42 AM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) Didn't Spielberg impress upon Goldsmith to drop (or tone down) the synths on POLTERGEIST? That would be the first I ever heard of that.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 9:56 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Impossible. Jerry died two years before E.T. was released, the year after scoring Escape From Alcatraz.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:06 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Haha! Good one Chris    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:08 AM     By:   moolik   (Member) Than we would have missed out on one of the most iconic themes in movie history..just like Superman. But still my favorite composer    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:11 AM     By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member) Probably would sound like Night Crossing!    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:24 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Or maybe KICK THE CAN.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:28 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Listening to the score this morning, and I love the OST, I was wondering if Spielberg's "little" film really needed such a grandiose score? I wouldn't change it for the world, but who knows, a more modern take by Jerry might have been as effective without yearning for more, musically speaking.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:31 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) I think the John Williams score contributed about 50% (maybe more) to the success of the film.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 10:44 AM     By:   Paul MacLean   (Member) Didn't Spielberg impress upon Goldsmith to drop (or tone down) the synths on POLTERGEIST? I don't think Goldsmith ever intended Poltergeist to have a large synth component. I think if Spielberg felt the need to impose a "synth ban" on Goldsmith he would have done so on Twilight Zone: The Movie. In any case I doubt a Goldsmith score for E.T. would have employed anything electronic. I also doubt it would have been as good as John Williams' score.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 11:22 AM     By:   Kim Peterson   (Member) Didn't Spielberg impress upon Goldsmith to drop (or tone down) the synths on POLTERGEIST? I don't think Goldsmith ever intended Poltergeist to have a large synth component. I think if Spielberg felt the need to impose a "synth ban" on Goldsmith he would have done so on Twilight Zone: The Movie. In any case I doubt a Goldsmith score for E.T. would have employed anything electronic. I also doubt it would have been as good as John Williams' score. I believe Goldsmith's score to E.T. might have had some electronics, something along the lines of a prequel to EXPLORERS, minus the last quarter of the EXPLORERS movie. Yes, Williams score is great and Goldsmith's would not been as good.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 12:43 PM     By:   jkruppa   (Member) I think the John Williams score contributed about 50% (maybe more) to the success of the film. I was about the post the same observation. The scene where Elliot and ET fall asleep together that first night is made magical by the score. Williams made manifest the emotional inner world of that story, which wouldn't be nearly as apparent from the visuals alone.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 2:10 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) Impossible. Jerry died two years before E.T. was released, the year after scoring Escape From Alcatraz. Neither Jerry Springer nor Jerry Lewis, TG.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 3:04 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Impossible. Jerry died two years before E.T. was released, the year after scoring Escape From Alcatraz. Neither Jerry Springer nor Jerry Lewis, TG. And, oddly, neither of those gentlemen is an A list film composer    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 3:06 PM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) I can imagine the Jerry Springer scoring sessions, where chairs are thrown at each other, people yell, and the flutist says double bass guy is her child's real father.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 6:59 PM     By:   Paul MacLean   (Member) I believe Goldsmith's score to E.T. might have had some electronics, something along the lines of a prequel to EXPLORERS, minus the last quarter of the EXPLORERS movie. Yes, Williams score is great and Goldsmith's would not been as good. It's hard to say. He didn't go "synth nutty" until a year after E.T., starting with Twilight Zone and Psycho II. Prior to that, scores like Raggedy Man, Poltergeist and The Final Conflict made very sparse use of synthesizers, while Inchon, Masada and The Secret of NIMH contain no synths at all.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 7:12 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Listening to the score this morning, and I love the OST, I was wondering if Spielberg's "little" film really needed such a grandiose score? I wouldn't change it for the world... When I was a youngster I was enthralled by the Twilight Zone and have traced the origins of my love for film music in no small part to this landmark TV series. TV was where Maestro Williams began making a name for himself and the collaboration with Spielberg resulted in my being affected as an adult in the same manner that I had been as a youngster by TZ. A second wind, or wave! And ever since, including before TZ: The Movie, I have maintained that Spiely was influenced by TZ more than he has let on. I'm mostly thinking of the marriage between film and music in a grandiose way, and E.T., THANKFULLY, was part of the now big screen trend. PS let's complete the circle-- http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=7308&forumID=1&archive=1    Posted:   Apr 20, 2018 - 7:32 PM     By:   rickO   (Member) Poltergeist had no sythestizer component, the whole thing is acoustic. I also have wondered what a Jerry ET would sound like. Goldsmith really composed from the point of view of the characters, where as Williams's approach is from the audience POV. -Rick O.     General Discussion: What If Jerry Did E.T. ?    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   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 3

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