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With all due respect, you show no evidence of speaking the truth.
I know who he means and he's speaking the truth. The director in question even went onto the John Barry Yahoo group while he was making his breakthrough film and said he had written the screenplay while listening to Barry and was very hopeful that he would score his film.
The only part of the post I would question is where it says an A-list composer is working on the director's third film - the composer listed for it at IMDB is pretty far from A-list!
Could you please post the IMDb link to that film? Thank you!
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Certainly an interesting and, apparently, well informed post by Sergeant Howie which seems to confirm rumours that were around last Summer, that Barry had been offered a major film by a major director that he would find attractive.
I have always felt that Barry must have had SOME offers to score films over the last seven years which for his own reasons he has turned down.Having said that I do feel that walking out on Streisand and then Redford in the 90s followed by having music replaced by other composers on 'Mercury Rising and 'Playing by Heart' didn't do his marketability too much good.
As far as film scoring, I agree that Enigma was the final Barry scored movie. Barry's speed of working is now such that he would find it difficult working in an environment where deadlines are critical.
However, I'm heartened that 'The Seasons' is a Barry project that still seems to be on and look forward to that one.
Pete
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John Murphy is no longer scoring "Crossing Over." Mark Isham is now on the film. IMDB hasn't been updated.
Murphy is a pretty great composer, though. I don't know if I would consider him him A list, but he's scored for some heavyweights like Michael Mann, Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, etc.
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John Murphy is no longer scoring "Crossing Over." Mark Isham is now on the film. IMDB hasn't been updated.
Murphy is a pretty great composer, though. I don't know if I would consider him him A list, but he's scored for some heavyweights like Michael Mann, Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, etc.
Here's the link to "Crossing Over"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0924129/combined
Writer director, Wayne Kramer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469694/
A picture of him
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm450138112/nm0469694
It's really just my own opinion, but from what I've read just now, JB's refusal seems fairly justified.
On the other side, I really doubt he's still up to working for major Hollywood pictures under the current circumstances regardless of the project's quality and the people's personalities (something that matters highly for Barry).
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Jul 17, 2008 - 4:08 AM
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I'm sure Barry has plenty of offers in the mail.
I think if you want an inkling into his mindset at the moment, it's an idea to ponder over his relationship with O'Donoghue. He's at a stage in life where he wants to make sense of it all, where his family have given him more sense of meaning, and where he doesn't need the money, but DOES need to create and to search. Whatever we may say about the validity of filmscoring as an artform, it's still a commercial one, and not necessarily satisfying SPIRITUALLY. He's a searcher, old Barry: you can hear it in the melancholy of his music.
In Miklos Rozsa's autobiography, he too (his children confirm this) says that a composer, or ANY creative artist of any kind should try a little every day. He would compose sometimes a vast amount in a day, at others, just a few bars, but always something. He believed the consistent regularity was a factor, and composed every single day. Why not Barry so?
This is one of the most sensible posts on the subject I've read for a while. I agree.
However, the info on the 'new' movie is fascinating! Can the original poster not confirm this? Would it be breaking a confidence?
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Jul 17, 2008 - 9:43 AM
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In Miklos Rozsa's autobiography, he too (his children confirm this) says that a composer, or ANY creative artist of any kind should try a little every day. He would compose sometimes a vast amount in a day, at others, just a few bars, but always something. He believed the consistent regularity was a factor, and composed every single day. Why not Barry so?
Well, Stephen King says the same thing in one of his non-fiction books as well: that if you want to be a writer, it is important to make the time to write something - anything - each day, like working out one's "writing muscles". It's been a very useful piece of advice which I've taken to heart myself.
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I know who he means and he's speaking the truth. The director in question even went onto the John Barry Yahoo group while he was making his breakthrough film and said he had written the screenplay while listening to Barry and was very hopeful that he would score his film.
That was The Cooler, right?
Cheers
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Almost 18 months on, there is still no sign of John Barry's non soundtrack project 'The Seasons'. Is this really going to happen?. I would love to see this recorded but at 76, Barry has done his bit and deserves a good retirement, in which case I'll, happily, just enjoy my collection of Barry albums and wish him all the best.
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