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Look, the old folks home got the internet!
LOL, old people are old and should be dismissed because they are old. LOL.
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Apr 20, 2015 - 12:33 PM
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JohnnyG
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I don't think there is any arguing that the A-list composers of today are absolutely dreadful when it comes to thematic writing. Desplat and Giacchino have shown they can do it at times, but even their best efforts fall flat when compared to the melodic genius of past generations of composers. For those who argue it is all the director's or the producer's fault, I ask you this: were all the directors and producers people like Barry, Williams, Goldsmith worked with necessarily better musically than today's filmmakers? Because stories abound of these great composers working with filmmakers who had no ears or sufficient perception to identify what music their films needed. And yet these composers always, ALWAYS wrote music that served the picture's dramatical components and stood up on their own as enjoyable music. For me, this is definite proof that at least part of the blame must go to the composers themselves.
This is not to say non-thematic approaches are not valid, although it is hard to argue that the reason why golden and silver age composers are so respected and loved today is because they wrote melodies that are still ingrained in the world's consciousness. For the life of me, I can barely hum what today's A-list composers are writing (or dictating to their teams of orchestrators!). It just goes to show you that fame is seldom a synonym of quality.
Alex
No, filmmakers in those days weren't necessarily better musically than today's filmmakers but they allowed their composers to write music that was not only serviceable but enjoyable (and hummable) too. Nowadays in mainstream Hollywood this is almost forbidden.
But as some other posts have mentioned, look beyond Hollywood: there's Japan, there's Spain, there's France - great traditional thematic stuff over there.
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