Sticksboi05 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Well we know the 20th/21st century when it comes to film scores has been dominated by the legend, John Williams. (Yes, there have been others like Ennio Morrocone). So what is his best work? I know I've missed some so there's an "Other (post)" option because he's done so much work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones are so instantly recognizeable. I'd imagine it would have to be one of them. Heck, to this day half the college bands in the country play the Imperial March at football games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Skins_&_'Stons Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Star Wars or Indiana Jones IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Skins_&_'Stons Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones are so instantly recognizeable. I'd imagine it would have to be one of them. Heck, to this day half the college bands in the country play the Imperial March at football games. Buford, great minds think alike, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyConway Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones are so instantly recognizeable. I'd imagine it would have to be one of them. Heck, to this day half the college bands in the country play the Imperial March at football games. Hands down, these are the only two that need to be up for voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones are so instantly recognizeable. I'd imagine it would have to be one of them. Heck, to this day half the college bands in the country play the Imperial March at football games. Agreed as to their influence, popularity and instant recognizability, but i think Jaws and E.T. are right up there with them...Jaws especially. Hard to vote for just one of them, but if i had to, i'd guess Star Wars would get the slight nod. Among his lesser known film scores, I think the theme he did for Jurassic Park is extrodinarily beautiful and somewhat underappreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Among his lesser known film scores, I think the theme he did for Jurassic Park is extrodinarily beautiful and somewhat underappreciated. I voted other for just this reason. Jurassic Park. It may not be as popular or well known, but when it first plays as they're flying over the island in the helicopter...that's a goosebump moment. Very beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibbsFactor Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Star Wars, Indy and Jaws are all great but I went with Superman because Superman has been around for 70 years and when I think of him, I think of John Williams score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 Agreed as to their influence, popularity and instant recognizability, but i think Jaws and E.T. are right up there with them...Jaws especially. Hard to vote for just one of them, but if i had to, i'd guess Star Wars would get the slight nod.Among his lesser known film scores, I think the theme he did for Jurassic Park is extrodinarily beautiful and somewhat underappreciated. We played that in middle school orchestra. Great theme to what was the highest grossing movie ever at one point. Crap, Jurassic Park was supposed to be an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyfar Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My heart says Star Wars, hands down but there is one window of awesomeness just before the end of the Superman theme that has me leaning towards that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Supes is another great choice. Williams certainly has a wonderful legacy. I wonder if he's in the Leonard Bernstein category. I think he might be a notch below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 All great themes, but everything Williams did for the first three Star Wars films is hardly able to be put in to words. Gotta go with Star Wars. You can listen to the isolated score for each movie with the video playing true to the music at this person's youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Q-60eb7Z4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCranon21 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Tie between Superman, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. I'll give the edge more to Star Wars. When you hear it, you automatically think of Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 Superman has a place for me because of the hilarious Seinfeld scene where he races his old schoolmate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Whoever said the Jurassic Park theme I agree with. Whichever song that was that played as they were in the helicopter approaching the island/waterfall was incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcl05 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Very close between Jaws, Close Encounters, and Star Wars. The music in both Jaws and Close Encounters are absolutely central to the effectiveness of the movie, but I ended up voting with Star Wars for the greater cultural impact... Lots of good stuff, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USS Redskins Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Even though I am a die-hard Star Wars fan - I have to go with Superman - this is one of my favorite pieces of music ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 I went with Star Wars...had to. When you hear the first horns sound you just get an epic feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidFan Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The entire Jaws soundtrack is silly good. Got my vote...plus it's my fav movie of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 It's between Superman, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones for me. My test is how evocative they are of the film, and my problem is that all 3 are dead-on and iconic. The flourish when Indy is running across the Submarine in Raiders of the Lost Arc vs. the lead-in where Clark Kent rips off his glasses and shirt vs. Darth Vader striding onto the Rebel ship... I think I'm going to go with Superman, though... that intro is just awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I gotta go with Superman. It used to be my ringtone. When Bryan Singer was announced as the director of "Superman Returns" one of the 1st questions he was asked...would he be using the John Williams theme? And his response was he wouldn't have agreed to do the movie if he couldn't. That theme is just iconic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLongshot Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones are so instantly recognizeable. I'd imagine it would have to be one of them. Heck, to this day half the college bands in the country play the Imperial March at football games. Course, there is also a lot of similarity. My 3 year old was listening to Indiana Jones and thought it was Star Wars. My vote is for Star Wars, because you can listen to the score and recognize what scene is what simply from the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bay Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I went with Star Wars, but there are so many classics it is kind of hard to go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The entire Jaws soundtrack is silly good. Got my vote...plus it's my fav movie of all time. That's about why I voted Jaws, but if Jurassic Park was there, it would have been a push. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidFan Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 That's about why I voted Jaws, but if Jurassic Park was there, it would have been a push. "spared no expense" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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