Score: A Film Music Documentary | Trailer 1
Film composings most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, uncover their creative processes.
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00:07 >> I like that.
00:08 >> It seems like a very natural transition.
00:10 >> Yeah, let's see if we can do it.
00:13 >> Music is the one thing that we all understand that we don't understand.
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00:20 >> Music has tremendous driving power within the narrative of any film.
00:24 >> Bomb.
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00:27 >> Okay, it's bombed.
00:28 >> The visual is one thing, when you add music it becomes something else.
00:31 >> It's a whole different experience.
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00:35 >> The score is the heartbeat of the film.
00:38 >> So much of it is felt, it's all about intuition.
00:41 >> You realize this power we wield.
00:43 >> We can make you feel anything we want you to feel.
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00:54 >> John Williams made me realize film music can be as great as the classical
00:58 composers.
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01:03 >> Thomas Newman, his music is just so eloquent.
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01:10 >> Hans Zimmer revolutionized what we do.
01:13 >> We have to go shake it up, we have to go and reinvent.
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01:18 >> For months and months it really feels like you're going to fail.
01:22 >> Proving yourself is a great force.
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01:27 >> There is a chemical high.
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01:31 >> Pirates, it's like Led Zeppelin played by an orchestra.
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01:38 >> What can the audience really feel?
01:40 >> It doesn't matter how you get there, it's whether it's got substance.
01:43 >> Standing on the podium and hearing it for the first time,
01:46 I guess it's like seeing your child for the first time, being born.
01:50 >> Film music is the symphonic music of today.
01:53 >> How do you make the audience feel like they're coming home?
01:57 >> Your mind is connecting those dots.
01:59 >> Film music has changed fairly radically.
02:02 >> There's sort of a new renaissance going on.
02:05 >> It's so visceral.
02:07 >> It's incredibly powerful.
02:09 >> You can't say enough about how exciting that is.
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