by Jenny Nelson
Page 194, ‘The best directors . . . a musical art.’
Irwin Bazelon, Knowing the Score: Notes on Film Music (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1975), p. 199.
Page 196, ‘because I found the score so inspirational’
Jaws, 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition soundtrack, sleeve notes (Decca, 2000).
Page 197, ‘To this day . . . the film.’
Steven Spielberg interviewed by Laurent Bouzereau, Jaws soundtrack sleeve notes.
Page 197, ‘At first I began to laugh . . . the entire score.’
ibid.
Page 198, ‘Suddenly, . . . dramatic outline.’
John Williams interviewed by Laurent Bouzereau, Jaws soundtrack sleeve notes.
Page 198, ‘even before . . . about Close Encounters’
Mitch Tuchman, ‘Close Encounter with Steven Spielberg’, Film Comment, 1978, p. 51; Lester D. Friedman and Brent Notbohm (eds), Steven Spielberg: Interviews.
Page 199, ‘Close Encounters is . . . than Star Wars.’
Derek Ellis, ‘The Film Composer: John Williams’, Films and Filming, vol. 24 no. 10 (July 1978), p. 22.
Page 200, They kept returning to one particular sequence . . .
ibid., pp. 22–3.
Page 202, I’m a great rewriter . . . probably do.’
ibid., p. 24.
Page 202, ‘I’d rather go . . . the film itself.’
ibid., p. 23.
Page 202, ‘a doctor trying to diagnose somebody’s physical condition’
Interview with John Williams, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Edition soundtrack sleeve notes (MCA/Universal Studios, 2002).
Page 203, ‘we talk about tempo . . . emotions, texture.’
ibid.
Page 203, ‘Once Johnny sits . . . a super-imposition.’
Mitch Tuchman, ‘Close Encounter with Steven Spielberg’.
Page 203, ‘I’ll play two . . . they’re hearing.’
Interview with John Williams, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Edition soundtrack sleeve notes.
Page 203, ‘I’ve always felt . . . just uplift it.’
ibid.
Page 204, ‘What makes them . . . as compared to Close Encounters.’
ibid.
Page 205, ‘That sequence involved . . . mathematics and measurement.”’
ibid.
Page 208, ‘restraint was John Williams’ primary objective’
Interview with Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan soundtrack sleeve notes (DreamWorks Records, 2000).
Page 209, ‘He did not want . . . breathe and remember’
ibid.
Page 210, ‘a stand-alone experience and it affected me deeply’
Commentary by Steven Spielberg from the War Horse film soundtrack sleeve notes (DreamWorks Records, 2011).
Page 211, ‘the grandparent of the score’
Emilio Audissino, John Williams’s Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 2014), p. 218.
Page 212, ‘When I first heard . . . a youngster again.’
Commentary by Steven Spielberg from The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn soundtrack sleeve notes (Sony Music, 2011).
Page 213, ‘musical tapestry’
emanuellevy.com/comment/lincoln-john-williams-music/
Page 213, ‘I don’t think . . . an uncanny way.’
John Burlingame, ‘Spielberg and Lucas on Williams: Directors Reminisce about Collaborating with Hollywood’s Greatest Composer’, interview for the Film Music Society, February 2012: http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2012/020812.html
Page 213, ‘I call him Max . . . calling him Max.’
ibid.
Page 213, ‘Working with Steven . . . improve the world.’
Interview with John Williams, Jaws 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition soundtrack sleeve notes.
12: Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan
Page 226, ‘the combination of the two of us has become the voice of the score’
Interview with Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, 2009, KCRW; transcript, kcrw.com.
Page 230, ‘play into the resonance of the piano’
www.indiewire.com/2013/11/hans-zimmer-feels-horrible-when-his-inception-bramms-are-used-in-movie-trailers-92087/
ABOUT CLASSIC FM
Classic FM is the UK’s biggest single commercial radio station and the most popular classical music brand, reaching 5.4 million listeners every week. Classic FM’s programmes are hosted by a mix of classical music experts and household names including John Suchet, Alexander Armstrong, Myleene Klass, Bill Turnbull, Alan Titchmarsh, Charlotte Hawkins, Aled Jones, Margherita Taylor and Nicholas Owen. Since its launch in 1992, Classic FM has aimed to make classical music accessible and relevant to everyone and in doing so, introduce an entirely new audience to the genre. ClassicFM.com is the UK’s biggest classical music website and has 1.7 million unique monthly web and app users. Classic FM is owned by Global. It is available across the UK on 100-102 FM, on DAB digital radio and TV, at ClassicFM.com and on the Classic FM app.
Source: RAJAR/Ipsos-MORI/RSMB, period ending 17 September 2017.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Huge thanks, first and foremost, to all of the directors and composers featured here. I am particularly grateful to those who took the time to speak to me specifically for this book: Carter Burwell, Patrick Doyle, Sam Mendes, Howard Shore and Alan Silvestri. Thanks also to Sara Horner and Howard Goodall for their contributions, to NPR journalist Tim Greiving, and to Charlotte Green, Anne-Marie Minhall and Tommy Pearson, whose archive Classic FM interviews are cited here. I am very grateful to the staff and research resources at the BFI Reuben library, to Caeshia St Paul in the Global Enterprises team, to Olivia, Pippa, Jennie and Lorne at Elliott & Thompson, and to Sam Jackson and the entire Classic FM programming family.
A special thanks goes to Andrew Collins, not just for being a joy to work with on Saturday Night at the Movies and for the use of his archive Classic FM interviews, but for his advice throughout the research and writing process.
Finally, my thanks to the Saturday Night at the Movies listeners for sharing our passion for film scores – and to you for reading this book.
INDEX
Illustrations are denoted by the use of italic page numbers.
49th Parallel 117
1941 177
2001: A Space Odyssey 221
A
Abrams, J.J. 57–73, 63, 207
Abyss, The 102, 176
Adams, Doug 160
Addinsell, Richard 118
Addison, John 92
Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn 211–12
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 210
Alexander, Jesse 60
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV show) 40, 79, 81
Alias (TV Series) 57, 60–1
Alice in Wonderland 52
Alice Through the Looking Glass 35
Aliens 97, 100–1
All That Money Can Buy 77
Allied 175, 187
Altman, Robert 29
Amblin’ 195
American Beauty 135, 138–42, 143
An Unexpected Journey 168
Anderson, J. Todd 4
Andrews, Julie 90
Angélil, René 107
Apollo 13 104, 109
Armageddon 60
Arnold, Malcolm 118, 119–20, 147
Artist, The 93
As You Like It (2006) 26
Asante, Amma 29
Avatar 97, 107, 103, 109–12
B
Back to the Future trilogy 175
Part I 178–80, 189
Part II 179
Part III 180
Bad Taste 156
Bale, Christian 22
Balestrero, Christopher Emmanuel 83
Balfe, Lorne 220
Ballard, Glen 185
/> Bardem, Javier 14, 148
Barrie, J.M. 84
Barry, John 92, 146, 147
Bartek, Steve 39
Bass, Saul 84
Batman 35, 40, 42
Batman and Robin 223
Batman Begins 218, 222, 223, 225, 226
Batman Returns 42–3, 45, 48
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 229
Battle Beyond the Stars 99
Battle of Five Armies, The 168, 171
Beautiful Mind, A 109
Beetlejuice 40–1, 46
Being John Malkovich 5
Belafonte, Harry 40
Ben-Hur 106
Benedetti, Nicola 167
Benjamin, Arthur 82
Beowulf 185
Bernstein, Elmer 7, 93, 195
BFG, The 212
Big Eyes 52–3
Big Fish 37
Big Lebowski, The 1, 12–13
Big Top Pee-wee 40
Bigelow, Kathryn 112
Bird, Brad 58
Birds, The 75, 88–9
Black Rain 221–2
Bladerunner 222
Blithe Spirit 118
Blob, The 177
Blood Simple 2, 4
Bolt, Robert 121, 124, 129
Bonham Carter, Helena 52
Bouzereau, Laurent 200
Box, John 124
Boyens, Philippa 154, 158, 161, 170, 171
Brabourne, Lord 130
Bragg, Melvyn 117
Braindead 153, 156
Branagh, Kenneth 19–33, 23
Brandon, Maryann 58
Brave 28
Bridge of Spies 193
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 118–19
Bridges, Jeff 7
Brief Encounter 116, 118
Britten, Benjamin 120
Brolin, Josh 12
Brown, Royal S. 78
Bullock, Sandra 98
Burk, Bryan 58
Burn After Reading 13–14
Burnett, T Bone 2
Burton, Tim 35–55, 41
Burwell, Carter 2–17, 3
Buscemi, Steve 5
Butterworth, Jez 136
C
Cabaret 22
Caine, Michael 27
Cameron, James 97–114, 103
Cannes film festival 9
Cape Fear (1991) 93
Carlito’s Way 29
Carol 2, 10
Cast Away 184–5, 189
Catch Me If You Can 211
Chariots of Fire 222
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 35, 51–2
CHiPs (TV show) 176
Christie, Julie 24
Christmas Carol, A 183, 185
Cinderella (2015) 19, 23, 29–30
Citizen Kane 77, 83
Clooney, George 12, 13
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 69, 198–9, 204
Coates, Anne V. 119
Cocoon 100, 107
Coen, Ethan 1–17, 11
Coen, Joel 1–17, 11
Coleman, Ornette 167
Collector, The 125
Color Purple, The 193
Columbo (TV show) 196
Condon, Bill 5
Connery, Sean 89
Contact 185
Cooke, Tricia 4
Coppola, Francis Ford 98
Corman, Roger 53, 98–9
Corpse Bride 43, 50, 51
Courage, Alexander 66
Coward, Noël 118
Cowboys, The 195
Crash 153, 157
Crime Classics (radio series) 80
Crimson Tide 220
Cronenberg, David 153, 157, 166–7
Cruz, Penelope 30
Cuarón, Alfonso 29
Cundey, Dean 189
Curse of the Gravewalker 155
D
Dafoe, Willem 30
Dalton, Phyllis 124
Dangerous Method, A 167
Dark Knight, The trilogy 218, 224
Batman Begins 218, 222, 223, 225, 226
Dark Knight, The 218, 219, 223, 224, 226–7
Dark Knight Rises, The 218, 227–8
Dasent, Peter 156
David Lean: A Life in Film 117
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 65
Day, Doris 82
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 50, 78
Dead Again 22–3
Deakins, Roger 4, 146
Death Becomes Her 181, 189
Deer Hunter, The 219
De Palma, Brian 29, 92
del Toro, Guillermo 169
Dench, Judi 21, 30, 32, 148
Depp, Johnny 30, 43, 51, 52
Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 211
Desolation of Smaug, The 168
Deutsch, Adolph 211
Devil and Daniel Webster, The 77
DeVito, Danny 43
Dial M for Murder 80
DiCaprio, Leonardo 144
Dion, Céline 107
District 9 230
Djawadi, Ramin 220
Dobermans, The 176
Docter, Pete 58
Doctor Zhivago 90, 123–7
Doodlebug 223
Douglas, Michael 177
Doyle, Patrick 19–33, 23
Duel (TV movie) 196
Dumbo (2019) 35, 53
Dunkirk 217, 218, 221, 223, 235–7
Dylan, Bob 13
E
Earthquake 195
Eastern Promises 167
Ed Wood 36, 47
Edward Scissorhands 35, 38, 43–5
Elfman, Danny 35–55, 41, 64, 93, 181
Elfman, Richard 37
Elgar, Edward 236
Enya 161
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 69, 70, 193, 204–6
F
Family Plot 79, 93
Fargo 1, 9–11, 11
Felicity 60
Fellini, Federico 39
Fellowship of the Ring, The 153–5, 157–8, 162, 164, 165
Ferryman, The 136
Fiddler on the Roof 195
Fiedel, Brad 103
Field of Honor 177
Filofax 60
Fincher, David 166
Firelight 195
Fisher, Michael 141, 143
Fleming, Ian 85
Fleming, Renée 165
Flight 175, 187
Fly, The 153, 157, 162
Following 222
Fonda, Henry 83
Forbidden Zone, The 37
Ford, Harrison 181, 201
Forrest Gump 175, 182–4, 189
Forster, E. M. 130
Fox and the Hound, The 38
Franju, Georges 116
Frankenweenie 38, 50
Fraser, Elizabeth 161
Frenzy 93
Frighteners, The 156
Fringe (TV show) 57
G
Gale, Bob 177, 178, 179
Galway, Sir James 165
Game of Thrones 220
Gassmann, Remi 88
Gassner, Dennis 4
Gershwin, George 25, 86
Ghost and Mrs Muir, The 78
Giacchino, Michael 57–73, 63
Gibson, Mel 98, 104
Gilliam, Terry 181
Gladiator 218, 219
Godfather, The trilogy 155
Gods and Monsters 5
Going for Gold (TV show) 219
Goldsmith, Jerry 50, 65
Gone with the Wind 124, 208
Good Will Hunting 37
Goodman, John 5
Goodwin, Ron 93
Gosford Park 28–9
Goyer, David S. 227
Grant, Cary 85
Great Expectations 29, 116, 118
Green Mile, The 139
Gregson-Williams, Harry 220
Gregson-Williams, Rupert 220
Grunberg, Greg 58
H
Haigh, Nancy 4
Hail, Caesar! 12
Hamlet (1996) 20, 24–5
Hanks, Tom 107, 139, 142, 182, 185
Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire 26
Harry Potter series 154, 194
Harryhausen, Ray 155
Hathaway, Anne 52
Hawn, Goldie 182
Haynes, Todd 2, 5
Hayton, Lennie 137
Heavenly Creatures 153, 156
Hedren, Tippi 89
Hello Dolly! 137
Hemsey, Zack 230
Henry V (1989) 19, 20, 21–2
Herrmann, Bernard 75–95
and Hitchcock 47
influence 39, 40, 50, 181, 211
photo of 81
and Williams 195
Herrmann, Norma 92
Higham, Mike 53
Hitchcock 93
Hitchcock, Alfred 47, 75–95, 81, 133
Hobbit, The trilogy 153, 154, 160, 163, 168–70
Hobson’s Choice 118
Holdridge, Lee 108
Holkenborg, Tom 229
Horner, James 66, 97–114, 103
Horner, Sara 99, 111
Hoskins, Bob 181
How to Train Your Dragon 220
Howard, Ron 98, 99, 100, 103, 107–9, 219
Howe, John 159
Hurt Locker, The 112
Huston, John 133
I
I Confess 79
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses 156
I Wanna Hold Your Hand 177
In Bruges 5
In Which We Serve 118
Inception 218, 227, 229–30, 231
Incredibles, The 58, 64
Indiana Jones franchise 202
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 202
Last Crusade, The 201
Raiders of the Lost Ark 70, 200, 201
Temple of Doom 201
Inside Llewyn Davis 2
Interstellar 218, 219, 230–5
J
Jackson, Peter 153–72, 163, 211
Jacobi, Derek 21, 24, 30, 32
James Bond series 155
Jane Eyre 77
Jarhead 135, 142, 143–4
Jarre, Maurice 90, 93, 115–33, 123
Jaws 87, 193, 194, 197–8, 211
Jennings, Will 107
Jonze, Spike 5
Julyan, David 223
Jurassic Park 193, 207, 208
Jurassic World 60, 65
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 66
K
Keaton, Michael 23, 40, 42
Khachaturian, Aram 120
Kill Bill 93
King and I, The 120, 121
King Kong (1933) 155
