John Williams has earned 51 Oscar nominations, more than any other living person.  In fact, he also has the second largest number of nominations in history, only behind Walt Disney with 59 nominations.  So John Williams may very well catch up soon and beat that record.  But this raises the questions: Why are his film scores consistently good? What makes his scores stand out above the rest?  If you’ve read Part 1, you may be thinking to yourself that it’s because he closely writes music to fit the scene’s emotions. But it’s slightly more than that. His music has so much emotion because it consistently reveals the emotions of the characters.  In his mind, composers are a slave to the movie and are there to support the movie. Because the story is paramount in a movie, it makes sense that he puts story above all else.  Today, we are going to answer a couple questions related to his music and character:   How does he relate an emotion to a character How can he show the development of a character…