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This is my issue too. Newman is a great composer, but his Bond scores are a collection of often delightful, sometimes lush, but permanently moody pieces that compliment the individual scenes without actually help tell the story. Both SF and SP have a handful of beautiful cues, but neither amount to anything resembling a cohesive whole. He seemed very far out of his comfort zone at times.
George Lucas said of John Williams once that you could watch Star Wars with just his music, no dialogue or sound fx, and you would understand the story of the films. Barry was a similar composer in that regard. Arnold gets that too, though he is obviously not at that level.
You're not just scoring a film, you're scoring the characters in a story.
And yet, being such a strong advocate myself for the consistent, continuous, theme-based approach we're attributing to others (Williams, Barry, Arnold in particular), I shouldn't like Newman's approach at all.
Hmm. Maybe it's just that the individual pieces, I think, are so strong individually that I don't end up minding an overall mix that isn't as cohesive.
But, totally agree that's a fair way to evaluate the score's construction. And in other past Bond films where that's been the case, the scores tend to not be my favorites.
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One could suggest that Newman actually does incorporate the title theme everywhere as a consistent through-line, since Adele's Skyfall is heavily based in the "Bond theme DNA" the same way YKMN was...so maybe every Bond theme reference in the film is actually a reference to the title song as well...
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So it wasn't Mendes who chose Adele and Smith? I assumed it was
They were the two biggest, young, and commercial music-stars who happened to be British in their respective years.
The decision to hire Adele and Smith was mainly due to commercial incentives. Sam Mendes gave the indication that he had a large say in their appointments during press interviews. Especially compared to Martin Campbell who always said he was given the song and had no choice.
Eon have found a great model using the "young British talent" strategy, so I expect they'll probably keep it up. If they do, the obvious contender is Dua Lipa, who has been on a similar trajectory as Adele and Smith this year.
However, there was an overwhelming sentiment that Boyle would have picked his own artist as music is a huge part of his filmography.
I'm unsure about Fukunaga. Maybe it's an assumption, but perhaps he would want an American recording artist as those bands are the ones he's probably most familiar with. But that's a baseless assumption.
I'm just praying Eon hire the Arctic Monkeys. Alex Turner's voice on the last album was great and they have the popularity/commerciality factor.
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And, please, only 1-2 scenes for M briefing Bond and one scen with Q showing Bond his new gadgets. And one scene with Moneypenny.
Won't happen as long as Craig is Bond. Not while the MI6 cast have the caliber they do now.
How does one fast forward a book? I always turn pages. ;) :)
Also agree. This IMO is the biggest and worst fault of QOS. Mathis was just established as a great ally to Bond, and I liked Giannini's take on it (apart from the fact, that Mathis is French, not Italian), and him being killed off and deposed to the trash can is just too bad. Maybe in a polished script they would have handled it differently. Still, I do wish they kept him alive.
As I said, there´s a trend during the Craig era to introduce characters only to get rid off them quickly. In that regard it would make perfect sense if Bond knocked off a treasonous M ;-).
I can only pray that Fukunaga is a fan
The more I think About it, imagine Fukunaga goes again for an old Bond, and Robert Plant sings the song!
Yep! It's a shame Bond 25 got delayed thinking about Arctic Monkeys. The buzz around their new album might not be there by 2020, unless they decide to tour the shit out of that album. Or maybe Turner and Kane can throw something together as The Last Shadow Puppets again – which would be great too.
That would be something! There's a Zep connection to Bond already of course; Jimmy Page was a session musician on the recording of the title track of GF.
Anyhow, I´m sure a nice cheque would bring them all together for one Teeny-Tiny song ;-).
But I´d settle for AM too.
Yeah, I think he played guitar on the track. Both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were doing session work by that time. JPJ worked with the Rolling Stones on a few songs, I think.
A nice cheque might bring Zep together for one song; the only thing though, is that it might cost as much as whatever Craig gets for doing Bond 25! :))
They really would be the best of both worlds. Cool and interesting while still massively commercially successful. And some of Turner's Last Shadow Puppets stuff screams Bond. Genuinely can't think of another artist that'd tick all the boxes so well. Bet Craig would love them to do it too.
-Exploring protagonist's mind
-Characters experiencing visions
-A child dying
What else is there?
This actually interest me as much as any casting news, location news etc. I really, really want to know what their idea was, and a detailed explanation for them leaving the project. Hopefully one day we'll know, but we might never know all we want to know about it.
I probably would say depressed protagonists since Matthew Mcconaughey's character in true detective was quite depressed and had such a grim look at the world after a personal tragedy and both jonah hill and emma stone's characters in maniac seem to be depressed and conflicted, Perhaps bond 25 will be the Logan of the bond franchise only a bit more fun.
You can't really say that since none of us knew what idea Boyle and Hodge had in mind for bond 25.
As far as title songs go, Fukunaga capped his 6 min tracking shot in True Detective with this:
When Fukunaga was announced, I was instantly more excited because he appears to have way more range than Boyle, I've enjoyed his films and TV work more, and he just seemed to be a much better fit.
Have you seen any of his work, @ClarkDevlin? What did you think?