Dont forget to vote for your own video.
http://www.videosift.com/video/a-capella-tribute-to-John-Williams

I always thought this was John Williams' very best work, better than Jaws, better than Star Wars. It's got so many different themes and sections, each one with it's own irresistible hook! That's tough to do, friends.

Ah, The Thing is a good one, with a brilliant Ennio score. As if to challenge John Williams' two note, half-step apart Jaws theme, Ennio uses a two of the same note theme for The Thing. He is a very playful composer.

I've never actually seen Killer Klowns. I guess I have to rent it now.

I liked the US version of 'The Ring' better too. I'm going to have to watch that again now after reading your interesting analysis. I'm interested in reading more about it if you want to post it.

>> ^Farhad2000:
Come on guys. I think we all got too much nostalgia pumping in our
blood. The man is senior now, whats going to happen is that he will
hand it over to some new schmuck to carry the franchise into the 21st
Century.


Oh god I can see it now: Indy dusts off his fedora and slaps it on Shia Lebouf's head. "Here kid, you're gonna need this." He rides off into the sunset set to rousing John Williams score.

I almost downvoted this because it is the clip that Lucas bastardized. Not with the new special effects, but if you remember from the original, right after Biggs says the line "I'm going to cut across the axis and try to draw there fire...", the X-Wings plunge down to the surface while John Williams' score erupts to life. I got shivers down my spine in the theater and every time watching that scene in later years on video. Then Lucas fucked it all up by approving the increased engine whine of the X-Wings, drowning out the music. Unfortunately I can't find a clip of the original for comparison, but trust me, it blows that he made that change. As well as the other audio blunders (Tarkin's scene with Leia) that were in A New Hope, version 3.0
I used to stick up for Lucas as he sank a majority of his money into ILM after Star Wars and each successive SW film; he really is the father of modern special effects you see today. But post-1998, he is a cash whore, no doubt about it.

It sounds like a film score to me -- at first I was thinking 2001 Space Odyssey, but it's not.... something like Fifth Element? John Williams?

Thanks for the story-so I was right about the labia connection! I'll have to find another video about the entrapment idea..

In reply to this comment by rembar:
Seph, it isn't quite so Freudian as all that, but still a rather interesting story. From Sarracenia.com:
"The true reason that Venus is part of this plant's name due to the dirty minds of the kooky naturalists and nuserymen (such as John & William Bartram, Peter Collinson, William Darlington, Arthur Dobbs, John Ellis, and Daniel Solander). When they looked at the plant, they saw in its amazing behavior and attractive form (two red, glistening lobes, surrounded by hairs, sensitive to the touch), something that reminded them of female genitalia of their own species. Indeed!

Amongst themselves, this cabal of learned perverts referred to the plant as a "tipitiwitchet" (or "Tippity Twitchet"). It was subsequently assumed by historians that this was a Native American term, but linguistic experts have eliminated that as a possibility.

Tipitiwitchet, it appears, was a naughty euphemism of their own devising. I like to imagine a few of them coining the term one night as they were slamming down beers in a pub or in a sumptuous study. I'm guessing that the originator of the term was probably John Bartram. For while you might expect a scientist to express wonder or astonishment upon seeing the plant, Bartram wrote to Collinson on 29 August 1762 that "my little tipitiwitchet sensitive stimulates laughter in all ye beholders"."

Seph, it isn't quite so Freudian as all that, but still a rather interesting story. From Sarracenia.com:
"The true reason that Venus is part of this plant's name due to the dirty minds of the kooky naturalists and nuserymen (such as John & William Bartram, Peter Collinson, William Darlington, Arthur Dobbs, John Ellis, and Daniel Solander). When they looked at the plant, they saw in its amazing behavior and attractive form (two red, glistening lobes, surrounded by hairs, sensitive to the touch), something that reminded them of female genitalia of their own species. Indeed!

Amongst themselves, this cabal of learned perverts referred to the plant as a "tipitiwitchet" (or "Tippity Twitchet"). It was subsequently assumed by historians that this was a Native American term, but linguistic experts have eliminated that as a possibility.

Tipitiwitchet, it appears, was a naughty euphemism of their own devising. I like to imagine a few of them coining the term one night as they were slamming down beers in a pub or in a sumptuous study. I'm guessing that the originator of the term was probably John Bartram. For while you might expect a scientist to express wonder or astonishment upon seeing the plant, Bartram wrote to Collinson on 29 August 1762 that "my little tipitiwitchet sensitive stimulates laughter in all ye beholders"."

John Williams is better technically, but Andrés Segovia has much nicer energy.

John Williams throws down vs Andres Segovia!?

On the bonusmaterial on the dvd, they claim that they had an audition for japanese actors first. but no-one wanted to be in the film.

fwiw, i think this movie has one of the best scores that john williams have ever written.

Everyone sounds cool with John Williams as their soundtrack.

Way too John Williams heavy. Missing out on Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen, and the classic Bernard Herrmann.

While I love John Williams stuff, he liked to take a little too much from the classics (mostly Holst).

Wow... I thought no-one could kill a John Williams creation.

I am in nauseated awe... and find myself somewhat saddened...


John Williams... pwnt.

The other guy is none other than John Williams (no, not that John Williams, the other one) who plays classical guitar.