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My two favorites would be "Home Alone" and "John Goldfarb Please Come Home". As "Fitzwilly" was my entry lp to Mr. Williams, that has always been one of my favorites, too.
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Re Goldfarb...I would never say it is a great film or a great score -- just a huge nostalgic favorite. I saw it in a movie theater first run when I was 12, and even at that age I was aware of the PR controversy surrounding Notre Dame and its football team as portrayed in the film. At that tender age, it was a total and amazing hoot-o-rama. I also loved Shirley MacLaine as a kid and saw all of her movies -- and it was fun seeing Richard Crenna in a movie when all I knew him from was the TV sitcom "The Real McCoys" (with Walter Brennan) which was a staple of early TV. So it is really about nostalgia, not quality, in this case.
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Jan 5, 2018 - 7:26 AM
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leagolfer
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He's also been in the game longer than anyone 65 years in the business, % wise, not that many in his career. Wrong. Percent-wise means in relation to his whole body of work. It's irrelevant how long he's been in the business. So percent-wise of his total film output -- YES, quite a few comedies. 75% of his 1960s was ALL about comedies, for example. Some Williams comedies don't class as much comedy, social thriller, social drama, some themed more with a romance-fun they have zest of comedy if being picky. I wouldn't exactly call all them 100% comedy scores when compared, say, Home Alone's.
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Jan 6, 2018 - 2:28 PM
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leagolfer
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Some Williams comedies don't class as much comedy, social thriller, social drama, some themed more with a romance-fun they have zest of comedy if being picky. I wouldn't exactly call all them 100% comedy scores when compared, say, Home Alone's. Some of the films in question are indeed borderline or a 'mix' of genres, but very many are unequivocally pure comedies. More than most other composers, except those that have been pigeonholed in the genre for a long time (I'm looking at you, Theodore Shapiro or Christophe Beck!). Yes, 2 good examples in comedy now, Beck, i know of more, Pink Panther. I'm wondering some early Williams comedies are dormant, i like em, but I don't want to experience music threw the movie anymore, hopefully a label will fulfil 1-2 this year.
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