James "Horny" Horner spent two years of his life on the score for
Avatar, often working from four in the morning till ten at night. He didn't work on any other films during that time, even though he famously produced
six scores during 1995. The
Avatar experience mentally and physically drained him to the point where he's still undecided about whether or not he's going to score the sequels.
By way of recognition, Horner's
Avatar score was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Grammy. It lost every single one of those to Michael Giacchino's score for
Up.
Still, you've got to laugh.
SATURDAY PLAYLIST #31:
JAMES HORNER
Two years working on something that sounds like every other bastard Horner score.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly didn't listen the Braveheart Soundtrack...
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ReplyDeleteThe overture to Das Rheingold not only inspires The Wrath of Khan overture but was used exactly as Wagner composed it to kick off The New World for which Horner did the music.
The Charging Fort Wagner music is a direct rip off but I'm going potty trying to recall the name of the piece which is very familiar to me.
Today's film scores owe much to music from the past. Lord Lloyd Weber has been called a copy cat, but if so, he is one of many. I hear bits of Wagner floating through many films in the same way that visual ideas are borrowed by directors.
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ReplyDeleteCarmina Burana :O Fortuna is the tune Horner ripped for Glory Charging Fort Wagner. (I have clicked pages of Spotify choral stuff to find it including this anti war song spotify:track:50FKAQnfB1ZGKzNciBDgtT.)
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Anyway, the music was very pleasant as well as being familiar.