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John Williams, the elusive, unapproachable and, (probably), most esteemed of living film composers has been, and always will be, too busy to actually care about an old cd release of his. However, I wonder if he's even aware that his long, long, sought-after score with all the missing pieces has been found, re-assembled and is due for release sometime this week of the 5th of November? I wonder if Varese went to him for his thoughts on any of this? I also wonder what he originally thought of, (or thinks now), of this score?
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"It sucks. "
- John.Tower Williams
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Nov 4, 2018 - 10:49 AM
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Amer Zahid
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John Williams, the elusive, unapproachable and, (probably), most esteemed of living film composers has been, and always will be, too busy to actually care about an old cd release of his. However, I wonder if he's even aware that his long, long, sought-after score with all the missing pieces has been found, re-assembled and is due for release sometime this week of the 5th of November? I wonder if Varese went to him for his thoughts on any of this? I also wonder what he originally thought of, (or thinks now), of this score?
First, You could have continued in the same breadth of the Varese Dracual thread  . Secondly, from what I know that it was Williams who requested Mike Matessino to go and look for and un-earth Dracula from his crypt in the Universal archives. The search led him back to Varese where the 1/2 inch stereo stereo tapes were lying right under their nose and right into the mis labeled mono tapes box. The rest is legend...
Oh and yes, Everything gets approved by Williams in the end. His management even requested that something special be done with this release's packaging notes etc.
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What Amer said. Although it was 1/4" tapes at Varese and 35mm 4-track mag at the studio. This was one where JW specifically asked if the material could be found and improved.
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According to the liner notes on the 1979 MCA LP, John Williams had never seen a vampire movie until he was asked to score John Badham's version.
Seems to me that, between the 1940s and 1979, John Williams thought very little or nothing about the entire vampire/Dracula mythos.
Just imagine: this man never saw a Hammer horror film from the late-'50s or any at all throughout the '60s and into the '70s.
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Sometimes enjoy eating the hot dog and ignore how it's made.
MV
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Sometimes enjoy eating the hot dog and ignore how it's made.
MV
Doesn't Ford A. Thaxton say the same thing?
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Sometimes enjoy eating the hot dog and ignore how it's made.
MV
Doesn't Ford A. Thaxton say the same thing?
Doesn't mean its wrong. Sometimes you guys overanalyze so much you lose sight of why you love this stuff in the first place.
MV
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I have been overanalyzing everything since age 12.
Analyzing the TV shows and the films (which I loved to watch) is how I first got into descriptive incidental music!
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Nov 4, 2018 - 3:47 PM
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Thor
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Of course, still it doesn't matter what peoples opinions are, Drac is unique he's not classed as sociable in history only for blood, ok its social drama.
That it's a Dracula film is really irrelevant. You have to ask HOW the Dracula story is staged. Badham's version is very much a dark, gothic romance, and not really a traditional horror film. You should know that if you've seen it. It's relatively free of 'scary' sequences, instead using the general gothic look and setting as a backdrop. Much like Coppola did 13 years later with his version (although that is considerably darker and better, of course).
If 'horror' is to be understood as having a scary element, you'll find more overt examples in other Williams-scored films like IMAGES, WAR OF THE WORLDS or CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (even if none of them can be classified as horror movies as such).
The fact is that Williams has never really scored a typical horror film in his entire career. Only 'horror' elements within other types of film.
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