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 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:10 AM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

In the New York Times obituary, the following statement was written regarding Horner's approach to film music:

“The music’s job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out,” Mr. Horner said in an interview on the James Horner Film Music website last November.

To which I say, "Huh?" Is film music's purpose to make us forget how the movie turns out?

Perhaps there is context that I'm missing regarding this. Can anyone provide some?

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:13 AM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Interview here (found via Google, buddy).

http://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/conversation-james-horner/

It is a bizarre pull-quote taken out of context like that, but I guess the Times, in their earlier reporting on Horner's death, already used the better LA Times interview quote:

"My job ... is to make sure at every turn of the film it's something the audience can feel with their heart," Horner said in 2009. "When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody loses, when someone disappears — at all times I'm keeping track, constantly, of what the heart is supposed to be feeling."

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:13 AM   
 By:   mstrox   (Member)

http://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/conversation-james-horner/

He is talking, I think, about movies based on true stories (Apollo 13, Titanic, etc) in that particular quote. That it makes you invest in something that you know the outcome of.

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:14 AM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

http://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/conversation-james-horner/

He is talking, I think, about movies based on true stories (Apollo 13, Titanic, etc) in that particular quote. That it makes you invest in something that you know the outcome of.


Typical oversight in obituaries, taking quotes out of context. That makes perect sense. Thank you.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:31 AM   
 By:   BrenKel   (Member)

http://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/conversation-james-horner/

He is talking, I think, about movies based on true stories (Apollo 13, Titanic, etc) in that particular quote. That it makes you invest in something that you know the outcome of.


Correct. He even mentioned this at the BAFTA conversation in April

Journalists should do their research before writing obituaries. Especially the broadsheets.

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2015 - 9:33 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

He's also relating it to repeat viewings of a film, or one where the outcome is predictable. After all, the hero always does get the girl in the end, but the journey is retaken with each viewing.

 
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