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Perhaps Mr. Williams didn't have to compose a "new theme" for Solo. Maybe, just maybe he wrote one for Han back in 1977/1980 for the first films and then didn't find a proper place for it due to story/script changes. Just a thought!
Highly doubtful...
If he had, he would have found a place for it in the next 3 movies the character appeared in.
Ford A. Thaxton
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May 13, 2018 - 8:25 AM
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rickO
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Han Solo finally getting his own theme, and by John Williams, is kind of ironic isn't it! Hasn't it been a bit of an ongoing "joke" of sorts that he didn't have one within the original trilogy? I have a some ideas as to why. In A NEW HOPE, Solo was an outsider. He wasn't a part of the rebellion. He wasn't part of the Empire. He was literally on his own, left to his own devices. He certainly was sympathetic with the rebellion's cause, but he saw the opportunity to help out Luke and Obi-Wan and jumped on it; financial gain was his only real motivation. But Han Solo is ultimately a good guy, and he helps save the day at the very last minute. (I still get chills with that scene.)
In EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, we see Han thick with the rebellion but not beholden to them. He struggles to break loose. It's not until he falls fully in love with Princess Leia that he receives a theme of sorts, but Williams's music is predominantly from Leia's point of view. It's a variant of her original theme from the preceding movie. The theme returns in RETURN OF THE JEDI, and still Han doesn't have his own identifying music. Why is that? Well, because at this point he is too strongly associated as the reluctant rogue who has decided to dedicate himself to the woman he loves and her cause. She is the dominating character ... let's face it, Leia is a force to be reckoned with, and she calls the shots! And by the time of RETURN, too much of the story-line was about resolving the Luke/Vader conflict and just ridding themselves of the Empire once and for all. By that point it was too late to suddenly compose a Solo piece.
Now here's the thing ... maybe if Solo had been killed off in this one, as Harrison Ford has hoped, he may have got some kind of identifying motif. Who knows.... He really didn't even get one in THE FORCE AWAKENS.
But now that he is getting his own movie, now is the time for him to get his own theme. I can't wait to hear it! (And as for The Asteroid Field being used, I am all for it.)
-Rick O.
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May i remind you all that for Star Wars Williams didn’t even compose a theme for Vader?
I hate to be that guy but, um, actually:
(From the original LP liner notes)
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I rather like that Leia has, not one, but three themes, and if you wanted one, you had to go through her (this is considering that I feel the "Main Title" is the Saga theme, and "Binary Sunset" is the Destiny theme).
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