Skeleton looks fine to me, if anything probably better than the last season of Mandalorian, looks more fun for sure. Not sure what people are expecting, this pretty much fits with what they described about this show. Very Amblin-esque
Oh, look, female Geordi with one of those ugly impractical haircuts that'll survive all action scenes (and you thought Leia's buns were weird), generic young girl, generic young buy, another freakin' robot (does nearly every SW show have to have a robot like Trek and Vulcans on the Bridge?), and a weird alien.
Never saw the problem with "nepo babies" because one of the biggest determiners of your creative skillset is GENETICS. There is an excellent chance that the son or daughter of a skilled musician or filmmaker will possess similar skills.
On the upside, hiring a Giacchino virtually assures the score will sound nothing like this trailer music. Say what you like about the compositional/orchestrational chops of Giacchino and/or his genome; he continues to favor the orchestral idiom with very few exceptions, and Michael's two forays into the Star Wars universe were extremely faithful, first melodically (Star Tours II) and then orchestrally (R1), to Williams' approach.
Never saw the problem with "nepo babies" because one of the biggest determiners of your creative skillset is GENETICS. There is an excellent chance that the son or daughter of a skilled musician or filmmaker will possess similar skills.
yeah, is it nature or nurture, both? I am sure growing up with a parent as a composer and being immersed in that at home and hanging around them at the studio and the recording probably plays a pretty big role
Never saw the problem with "nepo babies" because one of the biggest determiners of your creative skillset is GENETICS. There is an excellent chance that the son or daughter of a skilled musician or filmmaker will possess similar skills.
yeah, is it nature or nurture, both? I am sure growing up with a parent as a composer and being immersed in that at home and hanging around them at the studio and the recording probably plays a pretty big role
The Minnesota twin studies show that identical twins raised by adoptive parents under WILDLY different circumstances still take much more after their birth parents than their adoptive parents. Environment plays a role but much smaller than most would guess. Outside of instances of extreme trauma or abuse inflicted during childhood, most people's personalities and skill sets are set at birth.
There's a good book about it - "The Things You Can Change and the Things You Can't - written by Dr. Martin Seligman, where he argues against the self-help book industry trying to tell people they can change things that are hard-wired. He makes a case for how the data shows some things can be changed, others appear to be set.
Also an excellent documentary about one of the most unethical studies of this type - THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS - where identical triplets were deliberately put into wildy different adoptive homes to see how they would turn out. The similarities in personalities and mannerisms were astonishing.
Never saw the problem with "nepo babies" because one of the biggest determiners of your creative skillset is GENETICS. There is an excellent chance that the son or daughter of a skilled musician or filmmaker will possess similar skills.
yeah, is it nature or nurture, both? I am sure growing up with a parent as a composer and being immersed in that at home and hanging around them at the studio and the recording probably plays a pretty big role
The Minnesota twin studies show that identical twins raised by adoptive parents under WILDLY different circumstances still take much more after their birth parents than their adoptive parents. Environment plays a role but much smaller than most would guess. Outside of instances of extreme trauma or abuse inflicted during childhood, most people's personalities and skill sets are set at birth.
There's a good book about it - "The Things You Can Change and the Things You Can't - written by Dr. Martin Seligman, where he argues against the self-help book industry trying to tell people they can change things that are hard-wired. He makes a case for how the data shows some things can be changed, others appear to be set.
Also an excellent documentary about one of the most unethical studies of this type - THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS - where identical triplets were deliberately put into wildy different adoptive homes to see how they would turn out. The similarities in personalities and mannerisms were astonishing.
Thanks John, you always come up with interesting stuff
Never saw the problem with "nepo babies" because one of the biggest determiners of your creative skillset is GENETICS. There is an excellent chance that the son or daughter of a skilled musician or filmmaker will possess similar skills.
Speaking of which, Patrick Doyle (who we all know has a lovely singing voice, thanks to Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing) recently shared this lovely bit of behind the scenes “nepotism” of his daughter singing “Kindle My Heart” on A Little Princess: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/ciWbDjSEsWfDUeGo/?mibextid=rYkE1A
Score does a great job of sounding like it fits in the Star Wars universe while being something *almost* entirely new...Orchestral with personality!
I was expecting this to sound like a Williams pastiche and was pleasantly surprised when I found myself thinking this score reminded me more of Jerry Goldsmith's fine efforts in the 1980s for similar subjects. Am I mad for thinking this?
of his daughter singing “Kindle My Heart” on A Little Princess:
