Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (A) on February 29, 2004 at 18:58:11

In Reply to: Re: John Williams is Mozart for our times... posted by Dalton on February 29, 2004 at 10:24:57:

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.