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eightmillimeter
I'm not sure I can swallow that. Williams was fortunate to be working during the golden age of film, real movies that people associate with and therefore the music becomes maybe more famous. Everyone knows the themes to Star Wars and Jaws, but to think that Jaws is better music than almost anything by Zimmer, no way.
Zimmer's on a live tour in North America right now. I went to the premier in LA and it was worth every second.
And Wagner was a product of the Opera. And this composer was fortunate during this period and that composer was fortunate during that one. Every composer must find a place for his music to flourish and while I think Jaws was pretty basic, the entire Star Wars soundtrack was amazing.
Sometimes he was just scoring movies like ET and Superman, but other times the music made the film complete like Raiders, Empire of the Sun and Schindler's List. He's on a short list of modern classical composers that I even GAFA.
I'm not as familiar with Zimmer since so many of his films really sucked. Waste of talent to score crap like The Thin Red Line. Gladiator, The Last Samurai and Interstellar were decent films but honestly I don't even remember the music. I know the Dark Knight films had music that seemed to fit the film, but honestly I don't recall any of it.
But I think about Star Wars for two seconds and Luke's theme runs through my mind and to me it's more powerful than the Imperial March.
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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