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…
As the number 2 film composer of all time, what makes John Williams so great? One word: EMOTION. His music is filled with emotion, and this is an exploration into why his music carries so much feeling. In Part 1, we looked at how he Mickey Mouses emotion by carefully timing the emotional content of the music with the film. And in Part 2, we saw how he uses leitmotifs to reveal characters’ emotions and how his emotional content is character driven. His isn’t trying to make the audience feel emotion but instead shows how the characters are thinking and feeling. But this still leaves us with one last question: How does his musical content elicit emotion? We looked at how he enhances emotion through leitmotifs and Mickey Mousing emotion, but neither technique inherently gives emotion to a cue. So that’s what we are going to explore today. And we are going to start exploring someone completely different. Michael Giacchino and “The Chord” Michael Giacchino points out many of the ideas we’ve been…
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