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I never heard anyone say the music in Jaw's or Star Wars was obtrusive at the time. Even from ppl who couldn't care less about the film score. Or even the 50's classics for that matter. To much credence given to the vocal minority. Most ppl simply don't care either way.
When it comes to John Williams, he's somewhat of an exception, but mostly people remember his themes (Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones, Jaws) and think the majority of film music was composed by him. John Williams was never a subtle composer, either, especially during the peak of his popularity. Other wise, you're right, most people don't care about the music.
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Jun 19, 2013 - 8:02 AM
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Mr. Jack
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I watched Friends With Benefits the other day, and there's a pretty amusing scene where Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are watching a generic romcom on TV and Kunis starts grousing about the "bad" musical score, causing Timberlake to start imitating the music clichés on the soundtrack.
Ever since I started collecting movie soundtrack over 20 years ago(!), my family has...tolerated my hobby, but they've never really understood it. Occasionally I'd get a "Oh, that's pretty..." compliment, but I'd also get comments like, "How can you even hear that through all the dialogue?"  I mean, I can totally understand why the average moviegoer can watch a movie now and not notice the music...because there's precious little "music" being written for film these days, it's all just eardrum-bashing white noise that's completely indistinguishable from the already-overblown sound design of contemporary blockbuster filmmaking. But how one can not notice the music for a film like E.T., The Wind & The Lion or The Magnificent Seven I'll never know.
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John Williams was never a subtle composer, either
IMAGES and THE FURY weren't subtle?
I'm unfamiliar with Images. The Fury? Subtle? Nope, but it fits the over the top film perfectly.
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THE FURY probably wasn't the best example, but it's easy to forget how subtle a lot of Williams's more dissonant, quasi-atonal underscore can be. See BLACK SUNDAY or THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said his more well known scores (the stuff everyone knows) were hardly subtle.
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"Zimmer tries to approach each score with a serious and open minded attitude.
Take for example alan Silvestri, who i think is terrific. He is going to write an Alan Silvestri score for whatever film he works on."
"Zimmer approaches each score with a dramatic sensibility. Wheter he comes up with an inspired score or not, his approach is refreshing."
brm
Is that the best you can do?
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Jerry Goldsmith said he was driving in a car with Pandro Berman, who produced The Prize. A piece of music came on the radio and Berman said "You should have used that as the theme for The Prize." Goldsmith said "That IS the theme for The Prize."
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