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Post by Ignorance on Jan 23, 2005 8:10:37 GMT
There is one critical thing that they need to have (and is missing from the trailer - I was hoping for it the whole time)....PLEASE tell me that they are going to include at least a little of the Jeff Wayne material into this!
Anyone who even played the PC game will know that you only REALLY know it's a War of the Worlds title when the you hear that 'du du duuuuhhhh' noise. It should have played in the trailer just after they blow up the civillians, as it brings up the title.
Has anyone heard if Williams will be using some of the original stuff as the basis of his themes?
And if you don't like the Jeff Wayne stuff, please don't bother flaming me - I like it.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jan 23, 2005 14:13:33 GMT
Welcome to the board Ignorance.. I wouldn't worry about being flamed by non-JW fans as most of us came into the world of WotW through his album. I think it's extremely doubtful that any of JW's work gets into the film.. either of them for that matter. Besides which, his own CGI film based on the album will be out in 2007. In the early days, I gather JW was in talks to arrange some sort of tie-in but nothing came of it. Cool though a nod to JW's album would be, John Williams music will more than likely be entirely his own compostion.
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Post by RustiSwordz on Jan 31, 2005 1:05:31 GMT
I can just imagine a huge tank battle /slaughter to the music 'Dual of the Fates' from ep1
fantastic bit of music.
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Post by maniacs on Jan 31, 2005 1:36:28 GMT
Ive total confidence in John Williams to come up with a score that will be atmospheric and scare the brown stuff out of you. He is good. It may even be better than Jeff Waynes because John Williams is one of the few people who could do it.
JW v JW - well see
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Post by Ignorance on Jan 31, 2005 6:57:21 GMT
Oh, as long as he isn't exhaused after Ep 3, it'll be good. Williams is brilliant. It's just that there are a couple of musical phases that simply ARE War of the Worlds after the JW version. All I'd like to see is a musical 'nod' to Wayne's work, that's all. Borrowing the strings from 'The Eve of the War', perhaps a bar from 'thunderchild' when it's equivalent is used (and wouldn't "Thunderchild" be a great name for a tactical nuke?) etc. That would be the best of both worlds
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Post by Green Mist on Jan 31, 2005 7:35:03 GMT
No one would have dreamed in the early months of 2005 that humans were to be attacked by a fleets of new, remastered and remixed War of the Worlds recordings!
Williams! Wayne! I want 'em ALL!!!
;D
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Post by RustiSwordz on Jan 31, 2005 9:58:01 GMT
Spieliberg is a huge fan of Jeff waynes album so a 'nod' towards the album musically or even visually may just happen.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jan 31, 2005 18:16:30 GMT
Imagine the confusion if a small fraction of Jeffs score popped up in the Spielberg film. Its certain you will not hear a smiggin of the score by Jeff in the Paramount version, homage or not, two completely differant projects, two differant composers.
Although it will not shy away from many WOTW fans of the album that when watching either Paramounts or Pendragons, when those key shots appear in the film you will start humming Jeffs score.
H_C
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Post by flynnsixtysix on Feb 1, 2005 19:03:00 GMT
Let's face it both Jaws and Close encounters had ANTHEMIC phrase based signatures like Jeff Wayne's WOTW which are as memorable and iconic as dun dun duh!!!
so it may well be a guantlet challenge that Williams might try and rise to...
plus Spielberg has some pretty zany views when it comes to music.
In close encounters he told williams it had to be 5 notes - no more no less. He rang a mathematician and found out how many combinations of 5 note melodies there were in the octave and told Williams they had to work through them all until they found the right one...I think they only did a few hundred before they chose Ay ya - ay Ya weY or AyYa wey - Ay Ya if you use the zoltan kodai musical notation scheme :-)
obsessive compulsive ??
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Post by Ignorance on Feb 2, 2005 7:38:25 GMT
Yes.
Without a doubt.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 2, 2005 10:14:15 GMT
So, when we see the Fighting Machines for the first time in Spielbergs film, they will be advancing forward along to the deep bass strings from JAWS ;D, and the scene on the common when Ogilvy and the other attempt comunication with the martians - no white flag or hankie on a stick for this film, Ogilvy will be behind a huge keyboard with a massive screen that lights up 'get ready for the tones, watch the skies'
H_C
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