He already is. He is a titan. He scored all the most famous blockbusters during the 80's and 90's made people think about movie music in a whole new level. He made movie music instantly recognizable. He forced other composers to up their game if they wanted to even keep up. He is the Michael Jackson of composers. Hard to think that there will ever be another one like him in this field.
This is my favorite music ever. It's special to me, because of how attached I am to the trilogy (Last Crusade especially--it IS the best, and it has by far the best music) but it's my favorite music, period. Forget any song from any decade--this, right here, is in my opinion the best music of all time. I wish I could tell Williams that.
I like how it seems Spielberg cares SO MUCH about the music and he appreciates the effect it has on the movie. He really seems like a genuinely loves it and is very invested. And John Williams is awesome of course.
John Williams is a magician! He secretly lives heads of every person ! How many people know the music to Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jaws, or Star Wars so well that they can sing it? He makes his motifs so memorable that no one can forget it! He is truly the best composer since Beethoven!!! So inspiring!!!
There's no words to express how much I love this guy. I wrote a novel last year, and if by some miracle it were ever made into a movie, John Williams doing the score would be an absolute dream come true. What a genius.
+kevnar John Williams is just simply fantastic. I was thinking the other day how I wish I were a director (although I love my job being a composer and would never trade it for anything else) so I could have John score to a film. So awesome.
Joshqim Sure, he composes the themes, but the music is now orchestrated and conducted by William Ross. I thought it wouldn’t matter at first but I can definitely feel like the music has lost a little bit of its magic when you compare it to the previous scores... John was a master orchestrator!
I can't begin to understand where John's inspiration comes from, but I can surely appreciate the end result. He is simply a musical genius. Amazing to see Spielberg and Lucas and John Williams on screen at the same time!
When I left the cinema after watching superman in 1978 when I was six , I didn’t run home at lightning speed repeating the dialogue, no I flew home shouting the theme tune , his music is and will always be my life, I can date my life , thanks to the music of John Williams x
Crystal Skull, like the Star Wars prequels, are more often than not given credit for the good things it had in it because its predecessors were legendary. And Williams could redeem the worst movie ever made in history with his music if he really wanted to.
the music immediately stuck to me when i watched the movie, used to ring in my head in the nightb and during day! I even rent a cd of the soundtrack and listened with headphones ....such brilliant music....
The music when Indy was in the map room at Tanis still gives me chills to this day. I've watched that portion of the movie 1000 times and am always moved.
"...so they seem inevitable." Sounds like he studied from the textbook by Samuel Adler entitled "The Study of Orchestration". Adler says the words about creating music. I have read that book and it's truly amazing and a great reference book when you need it. That book is so essential if you are writing symphonic scores and is used in the universities.
I've read the book, along with many others on music theory, harmony, orchestration, etc. but I still can't write music anything like that of Mr. Williams. What John Williams possesses is a musical genius that cannot be taught.
The face melting scene from the end of raiders is one of my favorite scenes in cinematic history ! I don't know why I think it's because I love those damn special effects so much !
As John Williams implies, it is the basic melody that is the most important aspect of the music. You can have fantastic harmonies, counterpoint, rhythmic devices and other fancy things, however, if there is no obvious "tune" then the music is usually unsuccessful.
Oh no, good musicians will always be around. One of my favorite composers is Chris Huelsbeck, who composed many game soundtracks (Star Wars RS, Turrican).
John Williams NAILS IT: the hardest melodies to write are usually the simplest ones, the ones that sound inevitable. This is because so many melodies have already been composed / used, that it is difficult to compose something simple that sounds original and distinctive, and also sounds good.
you know, why does there always have to be someone that dislikes a video on youtube? tell, me, the two of you who disliked this, why did you not like it? what possibly could you have against this?
John Williams never disappoints, and yet is always very humble. His scores for Raiders/Temple/Crusade/that other one...(ahem), Jaws, Superman, Star Wars elevated those movies to an entirely different plateau. Star Wars, for example, would have come out very differently, I think, if it had been done as a typical "sci-fi" soundtrack. Luckily, Lucas, when asked by John whether or not he wanted that sort of a theme or a more "epic" sound, George went with "epic" and boy, did he get it! The opening 5 seconds of Star Wars _still_ gives me a chill when I hear it. John Williams is probably the person I would like to meet the most in the world. Sure, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Tony Daniels, and all the rest would be stupendously great to meet and chit chat with, but John just weaves magic into these movies like no other. I'm glad he is associated with SW 8 + 9 and Indy 5 (July 19, 2019, baby!). He's 82 now, so I really hope he can hang in there! JW3HH
Those are my 3 favorite gentlemen. Without John bikes don't fly, you would never be able to enjoy going to a galaxy far, far, away, & we would never be warned when you are about to be attacked by a great white sharks 🦈🦈
3:01 I'll never understand this bizarre paradox that modern "concert music" should be atonal and experimental such that "people who heard the music without the film might be shocked by it" while music used as a tool for a film is melodic and hummable. If I go to a concert I don't want to be "shocked", I want to hear beautiful music. Several composers have lamented this phenomenon. Michael Kamen once told how not even the musicians like what they are doing (in "concert music").
Wildly imaginative music that perfectly traces the action and emotion of a film! Airplane Fight is a virtuoso masterclass--the brass literally slices as the Nazi mechanic swings his wrench at Indy's head!
Amazing I Like Watching Indian Jones it’s my favorite Movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕 I Am his Big Fans Thanks I Like Your Videos Happy Friday everyone Stay Safe And Be Strong Never Give Up Have a Wonderful Night Have a Great Weekend!
"Very simple little sequence of notes... but I spent on those little bits of musical grammer to get them just right so they seem inevitable, seem they've always been there.."
I cant wait to see what Williams does with this last Indy film, if he is actually able to do it of course. Unfortunately its pretty obvious that his age has been coming into play considering how mediocre The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were (mediocre for John Williams means that its still damn good lol, they just didn't produce anything necessarily memorable/original apart form the same Star Wars themes before), and to be honest he certainly didn't have Lucas or Spielberg to work with on these movies either. But obviously this guy's music can seriously redeem any film he works on. Regardless of the critical flaws of the Star Wars prequels, his music in those films stands as some of the greatest in cinema history.
The Force Awakens' score was really good actually, and pretty rememberal at least. I adore his music to death, I thought TFA was a great film and the music to Rey's theme is beautiful compare to his other themes he has done.
i think that john Williams will go down as the greatest film composer of all time...
He did lol
+Mad Cat Sphere!: Already happened. No one else but him is or will become the greatest film composer of all time. Only John Williams. Period.
I agree completely, Hans Zimmer and James Horner are 2nd and 3rd best for me.
Mad Cat Sphere! ! He's the only film composer to be honored by AFI.
He already is. He is a titan. He scored all the most famous blockbusters during the 80's and 90's made people think about movie music in a whole new level. He made movie music instantly recognizable. He forced other composers to up their game if they wanted to even keep up. He is the Michael Jackson of composers. Hard to think that there will ever be another one like him in this field.
damn Spielberg is a good whistler
nice profile pic
He's a musician too. Believe he played clarinet.
Spielberg whistling the parts of the Raiders theme made my day!
As much as we missed James Horner when he perished in that plane accident, we will absolutely lose it when Williams goes. He's a national treasure.
Make this man immortal!
I don’t want to think about
A global treasure
@@ColossusInShadow No one wants to think about it.... :\
I will never get tired of listen to Williams explaining how he made the music to the films he worked on. A true musical genious.
This is my favorite music ever. It's special to me, because of how attached I am to the trilogy (Last Crusade especially--it IS the best, and it has by far the best music) but it's my favorite music, period. Forget any song from any decade--this, right here, is in my opinion the best music of all time. I wish I could tell Williams that.
Give me five!
Yes, The Last Crusade is the best film of the series.
my ring tone since ever - I love it!
I cry listening to all these Indiana Jones Theme Scores... 🎧
My favorite music are movie soundtracks
+David Good agreed
same!
Always have been for me.
7:17 that motif from Crusades sticks with me more than anything. Such a great melody......
matt dude I always liked when the knight waived goodbye for the last time when everything was crumbling.
I love that melody so much
"Okay....alright....I just conducted a freaking orchestra." --John Williams
My favorite part of this is seeing Steven Spielberg being giddy and in awe of John Williams' work. Both geniuses. Both great guys.
John Williams is a Genius! Can you imagine all this pictures without his music?!
I like how it seems Spielberg cares SO MUCH about the music and he appreciates the effect it has on the movie. He really seems like a genuinely loves it and is very invested. And John Williams is awesome of course.
I absolutely love when John describes his actual writing process. Makes so much sense.
John Williams is a magician! He secretly lives heads of every person ! How many people know the music to Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jaws, or Star Wars so well that they can sing it? He makes his motifs so memorable that no one can forget it! He is truly the best composer since Beethoven!!! So inspiring!!!
steven spielberg + george lucas + john williams = fuckin perfection
cory winkler yes just legends
cory winkler , Thank you Mr. Cory is nice to find a kindred spirit. I feel the exact same way as you do.
There's no words to express how much I love this guy. I wrote a novel last year, and if by some miracle it were ever made into a movie, John Williams doing the score would be an absolute dream come true. What a genius.
+kevnar John Williams is just simply fantastic. I was thinking the other day how I wish I were a director (although I love my job being a composer and would never trade it for anything else) so I could have John score to a film. So awesome.
What's your novel called?
hey kevnar I read your book and it sucks
Sad that he's too old now to continue making the music for Star Wars
Joshqim Sure, he composes the themes, but the music is now orchestrated and conducted by William Ross. I thought it wouldn’t matter at first but I can definitely feel like the music has lost a little bit of its magic when you compare it to the previous scores... John was a master orchestrator!
at 10:02,George Lucas is going," I should put Jabba the Hut in this scene". lol!!!
"So that they seem inevitable, seem like they've always been there"
I feel like this about the Beatles, Mozart and John Williams.
I love these John Williams scoring session videos! Every single one of them is a true gem...
I can't begin to understand where John's inspiration comes from, but I can surely appreciate the end result. He is simply a musical genius. Amazing to see Spielberg and Lucas and John Williams on screen at the same time!
O look oo
these three characters are the best of the best!
When I left the cinema after watching superman in 1978 when I was six , I didn’t run home at lightning speed repeating the dialogue, no I flew home shouting the theme tune , his music is and will always be my life, I can date my life , thanks to the music of John Williams x
great advice from john williams. focus on the simple bits, get them right and the rest will follow smoothly
Dear God, I love Indiana Jones.
John is the King!
I awesome love John Williams music scoring here.
9:58
Williams and Spielberg talking animatedly about the movie, then there's Lucas.
John Williams is a masterclass at making music!
"I hope there will be a 4th indiana jones".... Little did he know...
The CRYSTAL SKULL score is nothing short of genius, specially all the new/original themes.
Noone said otherwise.
I think his score for "Temple of Doom" is vastly under-rated. He scored the hell out of that movie.
VG Part time
Crystal Skull, like the Star Wars prequels, are more often than not given credit for the good things it had in it because its predecessors were legendary. And Williams could redeem the worst movie ever made in history with his music if he really wanted to.
the music immediately stuck to me when i watched the movie, used to ring in my head in the nightb and during day! I even rent a cd of the soundtrack and listened with headphones ....such brilliant music....
3:47
I love the music where Toht and his henchmen walk and enter the bar.
The music when Indy was in the map room at Tanis still gives me chills to this day. I've watched that portion of the movie 1000 times and am always moved.
How exciting it must be for both sides, composer and director, to see this being put together for the first time. Exciting for me just to watch this.
The best film composer ever.. this is a true artist ..
What an amazing career. Out of all his work, I still have a soft spot in my heart for "lost in space".
I always loved the Lucas beard, it really gives the illusion of a jaw on him.
Hahahahaha
John Williams is a genius🎹✌🍺👍
"...so they seem inevitable." Sounds like he studied from the textbook by Samuel Adler entitled "The Study of Orchestration". Adler says the words about creating music. I have read that book and it's truly amazing and a great reference book when you need it. That book is so essential if you are writing symphonic scores and is used in the universities.
I've read the book, along with many others on music theory, harmony, orchestration, etc. but I still can't write music anything like that of Mr. Williams.
What John Williams possesses is a musical genius that cannot be taught.
The face melting scene from the end of raiders is one of my favorite scenes in cinematic history ! I don't know why I think it's because I love those damn special effects so much !
the master!
The love theme from Raiders is just gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. It's my favorite theme from John Williams.
john williams is one of the greatest film score composers of all time!!
John Williams is the man !!!
As John Williams implies, it is the basic melody that is the most important aspect of the music. You can have fantastic harmonies, counterpoint, rhythmic devices and other fancy things, however, if there is no obvious "tune" then the music is usually unsuccessful.
I ADORE his work. There is no other composer i respect more. He finds the emotionality of every scene.
i have to rewatch all of star wars and indiana jones....
I love whenever that (1:10) part plays during any Indy film!
John Williams is the man who score Star Wars films, I like him and James Horner too.
Say what you will about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but John Williams' music was on point as always!
Bisbeatle couldn’t agree more.
I agree. The Jungle Chase and A Whirl Through Academe are two of the best pieces of chase music I’ve heard in the series
This man is such an inspiration
John Williams = extraordinary beauty and perfection in music!!
John Williams is now the last of the great composers :(
Oh no, good musicians will always be around. One of my favorite composers is Chris Huelsbeck, who composed many game soundtracks (Star Wars RS, Turrican).
cripplehawk: That was the same thing said when Enrich Korngold died. Every generation has it heroes.
Hans zimmer and Harry geegson williams are also amazing.
Williams and the late James Horner were the best, though.
David Arnold is good too.
John Williams is a music genius !
"Old School" composer at his best!!!
John Williams NAILS IT: the hardest melodies to write are usually the simplest ones, the ones that sound inevitable. This is because so many melodies have already been composed / used, that it is difficult to compose something simple that sounds original and distinctive, and also sounds good.
10:17 "stfu george, you wanted to have aliens in this movie"
you know, why does there always have to be someone that dislikes a video on youtube? tell, me, the two of you who disliked this, why did you not like it? what possibly could you have against this?
nobody dose it more powerful then john Williams.
Best music score of all time.
11:13... "I look forward very much to revisiting all of this in Indiana Jones 4" Little did We know....
Man, Steven Spielberg can whistle!
John Williams never disappoints, and yet is always very humble. His scores for Raiders/Temple/Crusade/that other one...(ahem), Jaws, Superman, Star Wars elevated those movies to an entirely different plateau. Star Wars, for example, would have come out very differently, I think, if it had been done as a typical "sci-fi" soundtrack. Luckily, Lucas, when asked by John whether or not he wanted that sort of a theme or a more "epic" sound, George went with "epic" and boy, did he get it! The opening 5 seconds of Star Wars _still_ gives me a chill when I hear it.
John Williams is probably the person I would like to meet the most in the world. Sure, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Tony Daniels, and all the rest would be stupendously great to meet and chit chat with, but John just weaves magic into these movies like no other.
I'm glad he is associated with SW 8 + 9 and Indy 5 (July 19, 2019, baby!). He's 82 now, so I really hope he can hang in there!
JW3HH
Willams it’s a damm genius. He scored so many iconic soundtracks. One it’s great but he bests that 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Without a doubt the greatest composer since Beethoven, and the greatest composer of the 20th century
Those are my 3 favorite gentlemen. Without John bikes don't fly, you would never be able to enjoy going to a galaxy far, far, away, & we would never be warned when you are about to be attacked by a great white sharks 🦈🦈
thank you , great quality, love this guy
Steven Spielberg would not be Steven Spielberg if not for John Williams!
sonictango I agree.
Wonderful, just wonderful!..
Steve your intonation is quite good. I am very impressed.
3:01 I'll never understand this bizarre paradox that modern "concert music" should be atonal and experimental such that "people who heard the music without the film might be shocked by it" while music used as a tool for a film is melodic and hummable. If I go to a concert I don't want to be "shocked", I want to hear beautiful music. Several composers have lamented this phenomenon. Michael Kamen once told how not even the musicians like what they are doing (in "concert music").
He is a very kind man. I remembered him doing a special for the late Alexander Courage.
genius
To be in the presence of that much brilliance......
Just......wow.
Wildly imaginative music that perfectly traces the action and emotion of a film! Airplane Fight is a virtuoso masterclass--the brass literally slices as the Nazi mechanic swings his wrench at Indy's head!
The Grail Knight theme is haunting.
Amazing I Like Watching Indian Jones it’s my favorite Movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕 I Am his Big Fans Thanks I Like Your Videos Happy Friday everyone Stay Safe And Be Strong Never Give Up Have a Wonderful Night Have a Great Weekend!
John Williams is a talented composer. The music he composes seems so natural.
6 legends: John Williams, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, the uploader, Karen Allen and Harrison Ford.
John Williams is made of awesome.
Experience minds put together to make a great film
Steven Spielburg + John WIlliams = F%cking amazing!!!!
now hes 85 time goes by and he looks still good today :)
great videolist, i love it. thanks
Spielberg + Williams = Good Movie
"Very simple little sequence of notes... but I spent on those little bits of musical grammer to get them just right so they seem inevitable, seem they've always been there.."
Lucas called Maestro Williams JOHNNY. Oh my lord.
i like that heroic action and adventure music.
an amazing score!
I cant wait to see what Williams does with this last Indy film, if he is actually able to do it of course. Unfortunately its pretty obvious that his age has been coming into play considering how mediocre The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were (mediocre for John Williams means that its still damn good lol, they just didn't produce anything necessarily memorable/original apart form the same Star Wars themes before), and to be honest he certainly didn't have Lucas or Spielberg to work with on these movies either. But obviously this guy's music can seriously redeem any film he works on. Regardless of the critical flaws of the Star Wars prequels, his music in those films stands as some of the greatest in cinema history.
The Force Awakens' score was really good actually, and pretty rememberal at least. I adore his music to death, I thought TFA was a great film and the music to Rey's theme is beautiful compare to his other themes he has done.
You are right Mr. Williams, I know from my own composing experience. It's the little motifs, so important and so hard to capture!
One of my favorite characters out of Lucasfilm
Dr Henry Jones Sr
R.I.P. Sean Connery
John Williams has been touched by God. There is no other explanation for his wizardry. Oh yeah, that and 100 years of practice.
Steven has a respectable level of musical intelligence!! Good pitch when whistling...
Genius .. Williams , Spielberg, Lucas
ah the holy trinity!!!
i like these guys...
John Williams is the greatest film composer ever
Love it
how NONE of the Indiana Jones films won an Oscar for Best Music/Score is waaaaaaaaay beyond me......