His latest offering is from the seventh STAR WARS movie THE FORCE AWAKENS, well yes its Williams that’s obvious and it’s a STAR WARS score that’s another obvious statement, but for me its kind of lacking, there is just something that is not there like in other STAR WARS soundtracks, most of the cues are action orientated with lots of dramatic and urgent strings being embellished and accompanied by proud and at times rasping brass flourishes, booming percussion and the William‘s trademark flyaway sounding woodwinds. Williams also acted as inspiration for new composers who wanted to either pay homage to this extraordinary music smith or mimic his grand opulent approach to film scoring.
For me any score by John Williams is a delight and also a treasured moment from film music, it was Williams in my opinion who basically saved the orchestral film score with his music from STAR WARS, SUPERMAN,THE TOWERING INFERNO etc, bringing back to Hollywood some of the lush and romantic musical notions that were first heard in movies from the golden age and written by the likes of Korngold, Rozsa, Newman and their like, when the majority of movies were being scored with tacky sounding synths and artificial and cheap sounding electronics.
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