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I wouldn't call that persona reviewer. The more I learn about producers and directors and investors giving their DEMANDS to composers the more I'm finding it harder and harder to actually criticize composers for their lack of themes or the direction of the score etc. because I've seen it first hand the pressures the producers, directors and investors lay on the composer who must appease the people who put fourth the money.
I'm seen it first hand as I'm in a relationship with a composer who CAN write great stuff. I've heard his first stabs at a scene and I'm blown away. Then come the notes and it's basically GET RID OF everything you and me would like. What is left sometimes is not my particular favorite, but the composer has to do what he's told or leave the project.
Gone are the days where a composer listened to maybe one person, the director. Now it's a team of people and they all "know" more than the composer of course.
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Nov 25, 2015 - 6:19 AM
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MikeP
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I wanted to start this discussion after I read a review of Horner's Something Wicked This Way Comes on a lesser known film music review website/blog. As I glanced through the review, the following jumped out at me:
Horner was hired to replace Georges Delerude, a person I have never heard of. Unfortunately, the music was so delayed that Delerude did a very poor job, loosing him the gig and therefore Horner was the only person available to take the project within a decent budget.
Now, my problem lies with the fact that the reviewer seems to be pretty ignorant with mentioning the facts about the rejected score (even misspelling Delerue's name twice). I can accept that Delerue's name isn't as familiar to the younger score fans out there as it is with the older score fans. It just feels like the reviewer didn't even try to investigate further. Part of the fun of film music is discovering works of composers that you have not heard about before.
I know that reviews are all subjective but it might be reasonable to put in the effort to do a proper review (even looking at a rejected score or at least mentioning the facts of the rejected score in an intelligent way).
Full review here:
http://film-score-review.tumblr.com/post/126354676487/james-horner-memorial-marathon-9-one-of-the
A typo here and there can be forgiven, and if he's never heard of Delerue, that's fine too. But just don't call attention to that fact, and if you don't have all the information regarding why the event happened, don't just make it up.
But, the fellow may be a younger score fan and there's always time to explore more. He's enthusiastic about music at least.
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Yeah, everybody makes typo's, hell -- I've read over things three times and still put it out there with errors I didn't catch, but this just reeks of laziness. How hard would it have been to look into the composer just a little bit, or even read up what little info' is online about the switch in composers? Apparently too hard.
I think, and this is a quick one, that if you want to review scores, you should at least be a seasoned listener of some years and should definitively be familiar with one of the greatest film composers who ever lived.
In the very least, the reviewer could have taken the easy raod and just mentioned that he doesn't know the reasons for the change in composers.
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