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Edit: caught a spelling error.
Just like Star Wars and John Williams. The quality of Star Trek movies ebbs and flows, but Jerry Goldsmith remains a constant beacon of quality.
I forgot about this version of the meme format - good to get some variety.
Thanks. The other 3 I know of are guys creepily explaining and I figure this one that turns the tables has seen less action.
If it makes you feel better about using it, the way I hear it the one with the bald bearded guy and the cute girl is from a skit and her expression is her trying not to crack up.
Wait is this true?
Absolutely. Different music is used for the action scenes, but other times it's the same basic theme.
Jerry Goldsmith (and John Williams, and James Newton Howard) frequently use an old opera style of Themes for each specific character/setting/etc. The little theme isn't whole songs, but little flourishes that makes it somewhat obvious which character the song is about. It's fantastic when you pay attention and notice it. Listen to "Memoirs of a Geisha" soundtrack by John Williams, or "The Village" soundtrack my James Newton Howard. Star Wars of course is very obvious in its use.
The term your referring to is Leitmotif.
Thank you! I couldn't recall the term offhand.
Bear McCreary uses Leitmotif to incredible effect in Battlestar Galactica.
Makes Williams sound like a blunt instrument (pun ever so intended) comparatively. But then, at the mere mention of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, or Jurassic Park, we all know and hear it in our heads.
When you are John Williams, you don't need to apologize for being said blunt instrument.
That's the thing about John Williams. He may not be the best composer of film soundtracks or even the most original, but he has basically written the soundtrack of our lives.
Star Wars of course is very obvious in its use.
Until the sequels, when the themes are all over the place and get utterly disconnected from the characters so it feels not obvious at all anymore.
It’s usually fairly obvious what a song is about though, due to the words.
She's a winner right there
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