A Theory of Film Music
This video essay is a response to the Every Frame A Painting video, 'The Marvel Symphonic Universe': www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs Should film music be original? That's a question that goes right back to the earliest of film sound. But with new technology came changes - and just maybe, the answer to why all Marvel films seem to have forgettable music. This video was made by Dan Golding: www.twitter.com/dangolding For educational purposes only. All credit to Tony Zhou for his incredible channel, and for finally getting me motivated enough to make a video essay. Archival and interview footage: John Williams conducts The Empire Strikes Back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7_dMhdciw Hans Zimmer talks The Dark Knight Rises: soundworkscollection.com/videos/darkknightrises Hans Zimmer: the making of Interstellar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8t2VlwK4w Man Of Steel Soundtrack - Percussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOMIyynBPE The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs Academy Awards 1936: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJU61IKJ6E Pierre Boulez conducts The Rite of Spring: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_PGrl5vYg S. Rachmaninov. Symphony 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ey-Ecr_3ro Adorno about Popular Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd7Fhaji8ow John Williams conducts The Force Awakens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNfOhbzxfI Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWdUCiZ-RE The Searchers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N-weocZT4 Music Cues and film score excerpts: John Williams - Let There Be Light (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) Hans Zimmer - Message From Home (Interstellar) King's Row - Erich Wolfgang Korngold How The West Was Won - Alfred Newman Star Wars - John Williams 2001: A Space Odyssey - Strauss: Also Spruck Zarathustra Troy - James Horner Enemy At The Gates - James Horner Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner Avatar - James Horner Inception - Hans Zimmer Driving Miss Daisy - Hans Zimmer Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer Man of Steel - Hans Zimmer All films and music owned by their respective rights holders.
