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Some days on fsm, i look forward to the spambots 
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He changed the face of Film Music.
And his Legend will live on...Forever!
Kevin, is this a joke or what?
Hans Zimmer can be rather good sometimes, I can admit that (BLACK RAIN, RADIO FLYER, THE ROCK (thank you Nick Glennie-Smith for the latter)....) but overall, with the basement of sound design that he has helped to create through Media Ventures output over the last 3 decades, he is eventually I am afraid the worst thing that ever happened to film music art in Hollywood...since he established new standards!
The "problem" is that Zimmer has been so successful in Hollywood with tons of blockbuster or Academy award A-list movies to his credit that his style has now become a major and definitive trend. I suspect that the genius behind this success is not that much Zimmer but his very agents at Gorfaine & Schwartz....who obviously are very clever in selecting the right projects that will be successfull and or will enhance his carreer....
He had been sometimes greatly influential in the good way too, to be honest, and I salute the Mark Mancina output (SPEED, SPEED 2, TWISTER)...very effective leitmotives with nice melodies.
However, I am very sad of how Hans Zimmer did "infect" James Newton Howard old style for instance.
They are good friend and I respect that, a strong relationship probably reinforced through their collaboration on THE DARK KNIGHT. But there was a period when JNH did some scores the good old way, à la Michael Kamen/Jerry Goldsmith, like THE PACKAGE, THE FUGITIVE or OUTBREAK, this old fashion style culminating with KING KONG in 2005, a masterpiece body of film scoring. But after that, he changed a lot his style and zimmerised his music.
It seems that John Powell did the opposite journey: he was very zimmerised in style in his old FACE OFF period, than did PAYCHECK and the BOURNE franchise and after that did expand his style to a more symphonic approach, like in SOLO or PAN.
But Hans Zimmer huge influence remains as big as embarassing for all of us who like the old fashion film music.
Wanna get an up-to-date antivirus to Zimmer invasion? Just listen to Bruce Broughton, John Debney, Joel McNeely and Andrew Cottee's THE ORVILLE Season 1 and 2....
The problem must be the current lack of musical education from the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
Plus the hectic production schedules and constant last minute editing changes that are less and lesser compatible with a symphonic scoring process.
With James Horner in Heaven and John Williams semi-retired, I have bad feelings for the future of film music.
I just hope now that Alan Silvestri will keep his classical symphonic touch and won't ever zimmerise his music...
He proofed with his Marvel output that this is still possible....
Yawn.
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