haha i love the fact he had to make sure people weren't thinkin something else when he said "aural with an "A"!" these are really wise words, i love his music so much!
When John Williams talks about myth, myth goes beyond the classical Greeks and Romans ( although they did it best). Richard Wagner could not have composed The Ring without Norse Myth. And you can add myths from many ethnic cultures. We Americans created myths of our heritage, the simplest being George Washington chopping down the Cherry Tree and "I cannot tell a lie." Ancient Greek dramatists could alter mythic characters already well known : the character Elektra is vastly different in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But playwriters had a limit- they couldn't write a play with Troy winning the Trojan War, for instance. I believe George Lucas tapped into a motherload in creating the mythic Star Wars world. But John Williams brought that myth into the emotional world of viewers in ways that imprinted the Star Wars world onto every one of our earth's seven continents. It would be foolish to say how great the Homeric epics were or how great Wagner's work was that dominated the classica world for a century and still is some of the greatest music ever written. This isn't a contest. But I hope John Williams realizes with pride that his creations have reached the psyches of quite a bit of planet earth- and in this composer's own lifetime, to boot.
@ob1starwars Actually, on the note of people hating the movie, I figured out something seeing it in 3D yesterday: to me, it's not a bad movie, but it's a Rough Draft movie; all the problems could have been fixed if one had it looked over and brushed it up again; it has Rough Draft problems that bring it down. Good comment by the way
The music is the only thing good about this picture, its lack's of dialogue, good screenplay and the plot is full of inconstancy's. The whole movie feel's plastic and there's no emotional involvement whatsoever.
Besides being an obviously brilliant composer, this interview shows that he is a brilliant man in general. I enjoyed these. Thanks for posting.
You need to be a brilliant man to be a brilliant composer.
Thank you, John Williams. I was wondering about most of the stuff you talked about in the third part of this interview.
Thank you for posting!
haha i love the fact he had to make sure people weren't thinkin something else when he said "aural with an "A"!"
these are really wise words, i love his music so much!
John Williams is the master of motion picture music
When John Williams talks about myth, myth goes beyond the classical Greeks and Romans ( although they did it best). Richard Wagner could not have composed The Ring without Norse Myth. And you can add myths from many ethnic cultures. We Americans created myths of our heritage, the simplest being George Washington chopping down the Cherry Tree and "I cannot tell a lie." Ancient Greek dramatists could alter mythic characters already well known : the character Elektra is vastly different in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But playwriters had a limit- they couldn't write a play with Troy winning the Trojan War, for instance. I believe George Lucas tapped into a motherload in creating the mythic Star Wars world. But John Williams brought that myth into the emotional world of viewers in ways that imprinted the Star Wars world onto every one of our earth's seven continents. It would be foolish to say how great the Homeric epics were or how great Wagner's work was that dominated the classica world for a century and still is some of the greatest music ever written. This isn't a contest. But I hope John Williams realizes with pride that his creations have reached the psyches of quite a bit of planet earth- and in this composer's own lifetime, to boot.
@ob1starwars Actually, on the note of people hating the movie, I figured out something seeing it in 3D yesterday: to me, it's not a bad movie, but it's a Rough Draft movie; all the problems could have been fixed if one had it looked over and brushed it up again; it has Rough Draft problems that bring it down. Good comment by the way
It's a great movie
The music is the only thing good about this picture, its lack's of dialogue, good screenplay and the plot is full of inconstancy's. The whole movie feel's plastic and there's no emotional involvement whatsoever.
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