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Film Music Is Dead
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Kjell Neckebroeck
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12/9/2013 - 10:00 PM |
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Film music is dead
The title is a gross exaggeration, to be sure. Sometimes, though, that’s just what it feels like.
Right out of the gate, allow me to supply you with the one argument you need to write me off quickly and summarily: I am old. I was a kid in the eighties, brought to film music by Alan Silvestri’s rousing Back To The Future. When I first stepped into it, the film scoring field was pretty much dominated by the three J’s: John (Williams), Jerry (Goldsmith) and, to a lesser degree, James (Horner). Even at the dawn of the nineties, Hans Zimmer had barely left Germany and was working with Stanley Myers on such obscure fare as Castaway. |
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Joel McNeely's SQUANTO: review and walk down memory lane
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Kjell Neckebroeck
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8/15/2011 - 10:00 PM |
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SQUANTO : A WARRIOR’S TALE (*****, Joel McNeely, Intrada Special Collection Volume 179)
The eighties were a magical time. It all started with Steven Spielberg, of course, the one filmmaker who can lay claim to having defined the tone of a decade. And naturally, Spielberg stood on the shoulders of Walt Disney, whose House of Mouse in the eighties as much as in any other decade, has told stories dripping with infectious optimism, unabashed sentimentality and plain rollicking fun. Disney has always had an uncanny talent for telling stories with a sort of sweeping imagination aimed primarily at children, but whose unwavering belief in the fundamental goodness that resides in the heart of man also appeals to adults, albeit on a somewhat deeper level, the child in all of us, as the cliché goes. |
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