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I actually find Williams' style globally very close to Holst's. When I have people (mainly classical music illiterates) listen to Holst's music, they depict it as a possible modern movie soundtrack.
Anyway, it is well known in music composing that you are always inspired by something when creating something new, so lots of famous songs are actually derived from other melodies.
On another subject, I am actually very saddened by the lack of recognition composers like Williams or Zimmer get from the "music sphere". They have gotten many awards from the movie industry, but are still seen as not equal to for instance a classical symphony composer by their peers. For sure, composing music 200 years ago was more complicated, at so many levels, but a Carribean pirate or Gladiator theme is to me as good as a result as what Holst or St-Saens have made.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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While I do respect Hans Zimmer and John Williams and other musical artists that contribute music to movies and video games I find it funny that you mentioned Gladiator and Pirates Of The Carribean - two of the most similar soundtracks written by Zimmer. He has variety but not in this case.
I do agree with you that it is not fair that they do not get recognition.
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John Williams did the music for a couple of the Harry Potter movies and while listening to one I had to make sure the player did not skip to a Star Wars sound track as the music sounded the same.
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Interesting, I haven't been listening to much of Harry Potter, didn't like the movies, preferred the books.
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Not sure about Zimmer, but John Williams' music often gets played on Classic fm in the UK. You can probably find him listed on their website[^].
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Planning an indoor Christmas time alone with my fiancee and looking for Christmas themed movies (comedy) to get! I already have
1. Home Alone 1-5
2. Miracle on 34th street
3. Christmas with the Kranks
...can you guys help with more?
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A Christmas in Paris?
Edit: "Polar Express" and "Its a wonderful life" would be my serious suggestions, the missis, kids and I always watch those in the run-up to Christmas.
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"Its a wonderful life" - a classic!
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Agreed, at 135 minutes run-time though the only problem is finding a time when we can sit down for long enough to watch it all in one go.
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For us it's normally on Christmas Day in the evening - drinks, fresh popcorn and four across the sofa. Best movie night of the year.
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Sadly long gone are the days of Morecambe and Wise and the Bond Movie
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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TBH we don't watch broadcast tv anyway. We do now own a tv, but only watch DVDs or movies through the puter.
Just the other night I was talking about M&W and the famous Andrew Preview show. We ended up watching the whole '71 Christmas Special.
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I have the Beatles appearance on my iPod.
"You've only got a little Dad, have you?" cracks me up every time!
http://youtu.be/ysfvM9uhFdg[^]
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Letters to St. Nicholas.
EDIT: An alternate title is Letters to Santa.
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Sleepless in Seattle
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Look closer.
Life is too shor
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Oh! Never judge a movie by it name!
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Gremlins
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That film is a Christmas tradition for me.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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The Money Pit[^].
I watch it every Christmas Day (well every day actually)
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Romantic comedies (sigh, I'm becoming sort of an expert):
Love actually
The Holiday [this one is really nice indeed, there are Jack Black and Kate Winslet]
Comedies:
Nightmare before christmas
Christmas on Bear Mountain [ok it's a cartoon, still ]
ADD: In Italy, every f*cking Christmas, they air
- Trading places
[Gollum voice]I hates it, but hey, it's comedy
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Two more Rom Coms, my two favorites. (If you are becoming an expert, bonus points for you!)
I feast on these by myself. I could have company, I suppose, but I pick my battles compromises carefully.
The Family Stone
Bridget Jones' Diary
I think I will check out The Holiday too, having just spent Thanksgiving at my folks house where my kids watched "School of Rock" on a loop and I got hooked myself.
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Nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing with Nicolas Cage in.
Trust me, you'll thank me later.
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