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Scorekeeper With FRACTURE Composer Jeff Danna!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! by King_Knut	Jul 4th, 2007 07:19:37 PM
Foist.
What? by wadi77	Jul 4th, 2007 07:20:39 PM

Bryan Singer is Gay by wadi77	Jul 4th, 2007 07:29:43 PM
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actually he didn't score "Silent Hill" by mikey mike	Jul 4th, 2007 07:35:33 PM
he just mixed Yamoaka's score from the games in 5.1 and synced it with the images. he didn't compose any original material, every cue is from the games
Actually, I care... by wadi77	Jul 4th, 2007 07:51:18 PM
Only that I don't really care about this article.
He scored "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" by Pennsy	Jul 4th, 2007 08:38:37 PM
I absolutely enjoyed his music back in 2002-03 as much as I like Bear McCreary's BSG greatness now.
fooking hell by RockLobster800	Jul 4th, 2007 09:15:11 PM
seriously you might as well interview the guy who scored Scooby Doo or somethin...
Actually, I care too.... and anybody who doesn't care by Seph_J	Jul 5th, 2007 12:30:45 AM
really doesn't understand a whole lot about films.
Scorekeeper, by Seph_J	Jul 5th, 2007 12:35:21 AM
Once again you have provided the most insightful, interesting and useful contribution to this site. You make the other guys looks like pre-schoolers. You make those of us who fall in love with film music feel just that little bit less lonely in the world! Thanks, keep it up mate.
These guys are talented by pantherec77	Jul 5th, 2007 12:42:16 AM
Yeah I care as well. A good music score can make the movie...think Last of the Mohican's. It was only as good as it was because of the score. Mychael and Jeff also did a really good album called Celtic Romance (despite the name it's got some great battle tracks). The Blood of Cu Chulainn puts them up there with Hans Zimmer.
Good interview by Evil Hobbit	Jul 5th, 2007 03:31:50 AM
Could you try and interview Giacchino about his Ratatouille soundtrack? Easily one of the best scores so far this year full of delightfully playfull orchestrations and instrumentations. It's a score the late Henry Mancini would be proud of.
Oh and Jeff Dana's score for the Gospel of John by Evil Hobbit	Jul 5th, 2007 03:34:42 AM
is one of the best scores I've ever heared for a bibical film and one of the best soundtracks of 2003.
Boomdock Saints. by Col. Tigh-Fighter	Jul 5th, 2007 08:03:13 AM
Schizo movie. Defoe excellent, the lads OK, best friend a fucking charisma blackhole that should have been shot (and some people think he's the best thing in the movie). Incontravertable proof that you should never cast friends in movies if they act act. He was SO bad that the rest of the imaginative flick got dragged down with him.
I do know a bit about movies... by RockLobster800	Jul 5th, 2007 09:05:01 AM
enough to know that this guys scores arent going to change the world. If they interviewed Angelo Badalamenti instead of some guy who wrote the score for Resident Evil-Apocalypse and....The Boondock Saints? Im not saying he's a bad composer but his work has not affected my life in anyway....and therfore I wouldnt want to read an interview with him and I cant imagine that many would...but then again I am taking the time out to debate about him so I've inadvertantly done what I strove not to do and ended up talking about the guy....maybe Jeff is building up to be the next John Williams-when he writes a score like that THEN I'll listen to him....
RATATOUILLE by ScoreKeeper	Jul 5th, 2007 09:06:02 AM
Ya, I'd love to be able to interview Giacchino. RATATOUILLE is by far my favorite score of the year so far. Let's see what happens.
mikey mike by Strabo	Jul 5th, 2007 01:09:03 PM
Adaptation is, itself, an art form. Hell, if you've watched the eponymous movie you should definitely understand that. Anyway, as always, great interview ScoreKeeper. I can't recall any of Jeff's or Mychael's scores off the top of my head, and now I think I need to rectify that issue. Oh, finally, a hearty GFY to everyone trolling the thread. Some people actually care about the music in the films we consume.
RockLobster by ScoreKeeper	Jul 5th, 2007 03:21:29 PM
It would've been cool to interview John Williams in 1969.
The only thing you could ask Williams now... by Strabo	Jul 5th, 2007 03:40:36 PM
...is why in the hell did he bother to do Sith after they butchered his score in the Sound Editing process so badly in Clones. Ben Burtt gets the credit for modernizing the audio industry in films, but he must have been asleep at the fucking wheel to turn out shit like that.
'Hearts In Atlantis' is quite a lovely score by Seph_J	Jul 5th, 2007 04:33:33 PM
as is 'Girl, Interrupted', however I was recently most impressed with 'The Nativity Story' score. I just didn't think big brother Danna had it in him. On the Williams note, if you listen to the 'Geisha' score he did, the 'Sith' score, and the 'Azkaban' score, you will see the guy still writes some amazing and gorgeous stuff. Just because he excelled himself in the 70s and 80s, doesn't mean hes any less brilliant now. A composer I would like to see interviewed is Bernard Herrmann. Think you can rustle that up? If not, maybe Gabriel Yared... and ask him about a little film that came out a few years ago called 'TROY'. Now THAT would be a good read........
a song for you... by longevitymonk	Jul 6th, 2007 08:34:55 AM
(sings to the tune of the Transformers theme...) "Mi-chael Bay! Jacks off in your eyes!"
I own Mychael Dannas old Virus synth by FleshMachine	Jul 6th, 2007 02:07:23 PM
bought it of him on ebay. it was used in 8mm...so there.
I would love to know how Williams feels... by Evil Hobbit	Jul 6th, 2007 04:48:41 PM
...about the rejection of his work in the recent two Potter soundtracks. How all the little themes and set ups he created to bring the 'magical' potter world to life were replaced by new and more unrestrained once. Specially the total change of the Voldemort theme and the atmospherical music for Harry's wonderous world. Would make an interesting read for sure. I mean, as a standalone, Doyle's soundtrack makes a perfect score, but seen in the franchise it falls flat on continuity. I must say I like the more restrained aproach of Hooper a lot more. But I just wish there would be a little more building upon Williams foundations.
Yeh, theres a bunch of themes and by Seph_J	Jul 7th, 2007 08:42:22 AM
not necessarily small ones either (Buckbeak, family theme, fawkes the phoenix) all of which are (in my opinion) better than the main Harry and hogwarts themes.... but will be ever hear them again? I hope so... but then again, in 'Empire Strikes Back' the blazing 'Asteroid Field' theme was awesome, and was never used again.... because I suppose it was very much a part of that scene. Likewise with Qui-Gon fighting Maul in the desert in TPM, 5 seconds of an awesome them, but we never heard it again. Just shows that Williams can come up with hundreds of great themes, and use them once really memorably, whilst some lesser composers rely on just one theme for an entire film , or series!! Isn't it about time Johnny Williams got another Oscar? I think so.
Yes! give us the Troy interview with Yared by Evil Hobbit	Jul 7th, 2007 01:48:06 PM
His score is absolutely stunning.
the whole Troy thing was odd because by Seph_J	Jul 8th, 2007 04:12:10 AM
I really don't see what the problem is with Yared's score. Its great. Horner's was cool too, but can you imagine hearing Yareds 'approach of the greeks' played over the movie? Fantastic. I know Yared went for an old school classical composer approach, kind of Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Holst styleee, but it worked, and especially for that source material. Not sure what Warner Bros. were thinking. Probably some test audiences who 'didn't get it' or something. To be honest, though the film wasn't bad, I do think Yared's score was maybe TOO good. Anyway, interview Yared about his work with Minghella, and try and direct the conversation towards Troy....
seph_j by Evil Hobbit	Jul 8th, 2007 04:30:36 PM
you nailed it :)

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