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Aug 18, 2018 - 10:39 PM
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bobbengan
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I have to doubt it strongly.
I don't think a lot of genuinely good creative people, at least not over the age of 25 or so, act or view their work like that (there are exceptions of course, like director Nicholas Refn, who called one of his past schlock extravaganzas "a masterpiece" in a very amusing interview with William Friedkin). I'm sure there are "eureka" moments, and others where he lands on a melodic phrase or idea that really invigorates him and that he knows captures the spirit of whatever project he's working on in exactly the way that is needed, but probably very little back-patting to speak of.
Williams has stated on several occasions that most of his peers - and certainly the man himself - know full-well that they stand on the shoulders of the musical giants who came before them and paved the way for the creative tools they know use compositionally, and that having both the opportunity to score films of a high profile and write music in the swiftly-disappearing "old school" vernacular they enjoy is a great luxury and privilege that's been afforded to them by circumstance and preparedness (i.e. practice, practice, practice).
With how poorly-trained and compositionally-inept a lot of the younger composers are today (focused instead on the 'tech' of demo gear and the wolfish social media/self-promotion aspect of their budding careers), I do have to wonder if we're soon to see an end altogether of craft-driven, humble, distinctive (and highly TRAINED) composers... But that's not what you asked now, is it Henry?
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No.
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He goes back to sleep.
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But it wasn't particularly funny.
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...do you think he says to himself "Damn I'm good!"?
Henry
would you say the same for Jerry Goldsmith or Bernard Herrmann? If you were kidding well, okay, humor is great but sometimes it is disrespectful
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