Richard who? I have not always been the biggest Zimmer fan, but the idea of him sitting down and blatantly plagiarizing somebody else's work seems rather absurd for a guy at this point in his career.
Richard who? I have not always been the biggest Zimmer fan, but the idea of him sitting down and blatantly plagiarizing somebody else's work seems rather absurd for a guy at this point in his career.
Zimmer's been using that same progression of notes since The Thin Red Line...Journey to the Line in particular. Its shown up quite a bit since, particularly in Inception. Not that Zimmer is beyond helping himself to others' work--there's quite a bit of Mahler in Gladiator and that kerfuffle was justified--but this absolutely is not one of those cases. Zimmer will have no problem coming out on top on this one.
The two tunes are totally different after the first four notes. Those notes are really just two intervals of diminished thirds, one a little lower than the other.
The similarities in the harmonics are pretty generic to that sort of elegaic scoring.
Whether he wins or loses, the real upshot is that such themes rely on harmonisations and intervals rather than melody. It needs said that Zim's is the simpler of the two.
It could well be temp-track love yet again, in which case the producers are in for it, rather than the composer.
The two tunes are totally different after the first four notes. Those notes are really just two intervals of diminished thirds, one a little lower than the other.
The similarities in the harmonics are pretty generic to that sort of elegaic scoring.
Whether he wins or loses, the real upshot is that such themes rely on harmonisations and intervals rather than melody. It needs said that Zim's is the simpler of the two.
It could well be temp-track love yet again, in which case the producers are in for it, rather than the composer.
After listening to the above tracks once it's my opinion that there is no particular similarity. If there is a glimmer of likeness then I don't even think it's the first four chords - two at most! Plus the keys sound completely different to me, the rhythm, melodic development etc. As you say, their commonality seems to be the (by now VERY familiar) elergiac, generic mid-western character. If you were going to sue on that basis then Aaron Copland would be the richest ghost in the whole wide world.
Yeah this lawsuit is completely ridiculous. Both sound like completely generic Americana scores. Aside from that neither sounds like a copy of each other.
