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Are you seriously trying to tell me that, because of the running time, the studio and theaters will be unable to meet the demand for this movie? Because that's what your argument boils down to.
Go back and READ what was written.
Try and GRASP it for a change.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Fill in the blank:
"Replacing Howard Shore was 'a horrible thing', but he 'didn't click'" because ___________.
the brass a UNIVERSAL didn't like it and the fact that I delivered a 3 HOUR MOVIE and I need them and pay the bills for going overbudget.
Ford A. Thaxton
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The Top Ten reasons Howard Shore's score for King Kong 'didn't click' with Universal!
10) Universal brass to Shore - "When you said you were going to compose ape music, we thought you meant R&B"
9) Universal brass to Jackson "Love Story? I thought this was going to be a story about a giant ape destroying a city! We need to save this with some R&B."
8) Universal brass to Shore - "Howard, we're going to have to let you go... We haven't heard the score yet, but we were shocked when we learned that there was not a single drum machine on the scoring stage."
7) Universal brass to Jackson - "Aren't those funny looking string instruments and blowhorns the same instruments that they used to use in Middle Earth? Tell Shore to get a rhythm section or at least a few synth banks in there or he's fired!"
6) Universal brass to Jackson - "The ending of this movie is just too sad. I'm afraid the music is to blame. Let's get that guy who did Disney's 'Sinbad'. That was a real upper! ((sniff))"
5) Universal brass to Shore - "Aren't you the same guy who did She-Devil and Mrs. Doubtfire? Get off the set, this film is no laughing matter."
4) Universal Brass to Universal Brass - "We received a call from John Ashcroft and he was shocked to see that Shore's name has been attached to a number of films featuring a despicable amount af depravity and even...nudity."
3) Universal Brass to Jackson - "Tell Shore that if he comes to the scoring stage one more day without his shirt tucked in, he's gone."
2) Universal Brass to Shore - "THIS is your music? A bunch of dots and lines on some wierd looking lined paper? That's not music, that's just NONSENSE."
And the number one reason Howard Shore's score for King Kong 'didn't click' with Universal!
1) Universal Brass to Jackson - "The electrodes attached to the first test audience returned no increase in penile girth readings when Naomi Watts was onscreen!"
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Nov 4, 2005 - 2:02 AM
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gkgyver
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Oh please, Shore "didn't click" ...! Howard Shore always clicks, show me one score that didn't click.
He delivered in smaller movies and he even delivered in blockbusters (Aviator, Lotr), something very few people had faith in.
Excuse me, if you can nail an 11 hour movie with dozens of thematic threads, a relatively simple love/ thriller movie certainly doesn't push you to your limits, especially because it's directed by the same person.
Well, he didn't click inasfar (is that a word?) as he surely included all kinds of ethnic percussion, and that made those narrow- minded bastards at Universal "worried".
The score certainly had the approval of PJ. No one in his right mind would spend a million on the complete restructuring of a town hall into a scoring stage when he has even the smallest concern about the score not "clicking".
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I don't know why, and I don't know what Shore's score would have sounded like.
But JNH's score is gorgeous. It's amazing how quickly this kind of melodic orchestral score has vanished.
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I wonder if there are mock up cues that could fill in the gaps? I know, it's not the same as an orchestral, but it's better than missing one third of the score.
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