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In Reply to: John Williams is Mozart for our times... posted by RGA on February 29, 2004 at 01:10:14:
I liked his score for "Jaws". And "The Poseidon Adventure" was good early work. I just don't like his later scores. "Raiders" is a two hour movie with three hours of music. The main theme is nice. But the intrusive non-stop droning of his music in most of the Spielberg or Lucas movies is irksome. In "Raiders", it's as if Spielberg never trusts the audience to its own emotions. Evil Nazis? Cue the evil Nazi theme, lest we mistake them for friendly Nazis. Marion might be dead? Cue the weepy violins. A tomb full of snakes? Cue the atonal oboe "gross-out" theme. It's too much of a "good" thing.
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his is ridiculous...you have to look at the film for what it is...it's basing itself from totally over the top pulp novels of the 30s and 40s. Raiders of the Lost Ark is totally over the top and so too is the score - even the main theme - the big brass etc. This was the same for his score in Superman...Big loud over the top like the heros.I don't see any other composer in film remotely as good - at least not for these kinds of films. And his Score of Schindler's List is the best score of any film I've ever seen...and I've seen a lot. Having Perlman didn't hurt either.
People often say Spielberg manipulates the audience well so does every director - and most of the time Spielberg does it in thekinds of movies where he SHOULD do it. E.T., Raiders. Where he gets into trouble is when it's badly handled as in Amistad.
And none of this is Williams' fault...he doesn't really control how the music is going to be used in the film - he just makes the piece. And Schindler's List as a stand alone piece of music I'll take over anything I have heard from Mozart.
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