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wow has time flown. 30 years old. I hope you do not mind but I am writing this watching the film and when I watch a film I am also cognizant of the music; Always
sure doesn't look its age
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I remember watching this at the pictures like it was yesterday and then hunting down the cd the next day!
Looking forward to seeing the film live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in October to celebrate this 30 year anniversary! Where else would you get to see Journey to the Island performed by an orchestra!
Lucky guy
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I also remember seeing Jurassic Park in the theaters like it was yesterday and all its glory of that time. The Entertainment Tonight clips reveling in what CGI could do (the shot of Alan and the kids running among the Gallimimus herd was shown continuously), the merchandising bonanza as well as the surge of interest in dinosaurs.
Whenever I think back on how blockbusters used to dominate an entire summer - a phenomenon itself extinct - I think of 1993. JP was the entire summer that year.
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Last week our local symphony in Milano performed the Italian premiere of Jurassic Park In Concert. What a treat that was.
It's indeed incredible to think that 30 years have already passed. I still remember vividly that 1993 summer, waiting for the film to be released on the Italian market (we had to wait until mid September, that was the norm back then) and listening to the soundtrack album over and over all summer long. The film still holds up quite well and despite maybe not being the strongest Spielberg ever (Jaws and Raiders are the superior outings of Spielberg in blockbuster mode, imho), it still makes the audience thrill, chill and have a lot of fun.
John Williams' incredible score plays such a pivotal role in building the sense of awe and wonder we experience, but also heightening the tension, the adventure and sheer fun of the film's most thrilling moments. It's a score built with such a terrific knowledge and craft from the first moment until the last. And the orchestration is one of Williams' crowining achievements, imho. Everything sounds just perfect and the performance of the studio musician orchestra on the original soundtrack is simply phenomenal. Experiencing the live to picture version makes you realize how well spotted the film was and how cleverly the music sets tone, pace and colour all around.
The local symphony asked me to host a pre-concert talk before the show under the Legacy of John Williams banner. I did an overview of the score's main elements, with musical examples and audio clips. However, the most fun was having the chance to show the audience a couple of scenes "naked" without music--I was able to get the stems of two scenes from Universal courtesy of the always great Mike Matessino, so I showed the Brachiosaur first encounter scene and a segment of the final escape scene first without music (only dialogue and sound fx) and then with the music. It's such an educational experience, especially to do before experiencing the film in concert version, that really helped to understand what is the crucial role the music plays in films like this. We film score nerds take it too much for granted perhaps and usually just focus on the music itself and all the tiniest details, etc., but it's easy to miss the bigger picture and realize how much the film's success lays upon the composer's shoulders.
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Oh gosh, is it 30 years already? My alltime favourite film and alltime favourite score. Need to think about how to best pay tribute to it -- could write a super long post here, but it would be too self-absorbed and boring for everyone else, so might look into writing an article instead.
Phew!!
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I remember we were on holiday in Orlando, and the film was opening on the day we were flying home!!
I was gutted.
I'd already picked up the CD in a shop during the holiday, but hadn't opened it/played it yet.
We kept hearing ads for the film on the car radio and you could hear snippets of Williams' score in them.
Then, during our final week, we noticed some cinemas were doing Thursday night previews...so we booked our tickets and saw it the night before we flew back to Blighty.
I liked it, but it didn't truly blow me away like some of my previous faves (JAWS, STAR WARS/TESB, CE3K, SUPERMAN, RAIDERS, E.T, THE THING) apart from the eye-popping FX, some amazing set-pieces and the wondrous music.
It has aged really well though and is still head and shoulders above any JURASSIC whatever's that would follow.
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Jun 8, 2023 - 4:27 AM
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Solium
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I remember we were on holiday in Orlando, and the film was opening on the day we were flying home!!
I was gutted.
I'd already picked up the CD in a shop during the holiday, but hadn't opened it/played it yet.
We kept hearing ads for the film on the car radio and you could hear snippets of Williams' score in them.
Then, during our final week, we noticed some cinemas were doing Thursday night previews...so we booked our tickets and saw it the night before we flew back to Blighty.
I liked it, but it didn't truly blow me away like some of my previous faves (JAWS, STAR WARS/TESB, CE3K, SUPERMAN, RAIDERS, E.T, THE THING) apart from the eye-popping FX, some amazing set-pieces and the wondrous music.
It has aged really well though and is still head and shoulders above any JURASSIC whatever's that would follow.
Yeah, I was never blown away outside of the score and T-Rex sequence which remains the best dinosaur attack scene in film history. Ive grown up by then and caught onto Spielberg's lazy scripts and contrivances. It still has many wonderful scenes.
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Jun 8, 2023 - 5:52 AM
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danbeck
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I remember we were on holiday in Orlando, and the film was opening on the day we were flying home!!
I was gutted.
I'd already picked up the CD in a shop during the holiday, but hadn't opened it/played it yet.
We kept hearing ads for the film on the car radio and you could hear snippets of Williams' score in them.
Then, during our final week, we noticed some cinemas were doing Thursday night previews...so we booked our tickets and saw it the night before we flew back to Blighty.
I liked it, but it didn't truly blow me away like some of my previous faves (JAWS, STAR WARS/TESB, CE3K, SUPERMAN, RAIDERS, E.T, THE THING) apart from the eye-popping FX, some amazing set-pieces and the wondrous music.
It has aged really well though and is still head and shoulders above any JURASSIC whatever's that would follow.
I also got the CD first and was very excited for the film as my favorite film is Jaws. Liked the score specially for the main themes and suspense material but, at the time, the action bits sounded a bit generic to me lacking strong thematic material like we usually had from Williams in Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Jaws.
The movie was also a bit of a disappointment. Found it perfect until the amazing T-Rex attack but after that it becomes very average without much suspense and only picked up again in the finale, as of the electrical fence scene.
Then I was even more excited for The Lost World and loved the soundtrack album. But when I watched it I could not believe how terrible it was, it remains Spielberg’s worst IMO.
Nowadays Jurassic Park film and score have grown on me but Lost World remains terrible, except for the score.
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Yeah, apart from the tense 'hanging bus/breaking glass' sequence*, some decent FX and Williams' tribal score, LOST WORLD is a stinker for me too, beaten only by THE TERMINAL as Spielberg's worst film.
*and maybe the foggy cages/Pterodactyl sequence too (or was that 3)?
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Oh, don't get me wrong, Spielberg's done a lot of bad in his career, but HOOK has a nice, magical Christmas feel, even if a lot of it is horrible, garish and obnoxious.
It still has some really beautiful parts and the score is for the ages...one of JW's absolute best.
I know it's all subjective, but I can sit through HOOK every now and again, but TERMINAL & (much of) LOST WORLD actually winds me up.
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