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YeahI quite enjoyed how Newman rethought the Bond style: keeping the sort of richness and depth that Bond should have but not trying to ape Barry directly (all of the time- the romantic themes maybe leant towards that style a little more). Hopefully that's what future composers will do.
Of course not faux Barry, that misrepresents what I’m saying. John Barry created a sound that will forever be part of the cinematic character; to one degree or another, a new composer will have to incorporate Barry’s sound . That is no more faux Barry than Craig being faux Connery because he wears a tuxedo.
Absolutely. I think Romer might surprise us at the end of it all. Keeping my fingers crossed he pushes himself out of his comfort zone.
As much as I know this rumer is unlikely, boy I sure wouldn't mind if it were true.
Yeah, i've been obsessing over Brittel all day long, listening to all his soundtracks. This guy is amazing and an infinitly better fit than Romer. In fact, i've been looking for a fitting composer for a long time, and i think he's my number 1 choice atm.
Unfortunately it might be complete BS. I would sell a kidney to make this happen though lol
But then Craig wears a differently tailored dinner jacket: he doesn't wear exactly the same one as Connery because that was designed in the 60s. Likewise the sound has to incorporate the feel of those old Bond films with a few of the details (like a bit of brass) but it shouldn't be exactly the same: it needs to be tailored all over again. Similar fabric perhaps, the same impression of quality, but a new suit designed to a new cut.
And that all hangs on what we define as the 'Barry sound' anyway. Is it all twangy guitars, bongos and brass? Because even John Barry himself stopped doing that twenty years before he stopped doing Bond scores.
Not necessarily the same sound, but certainly the same structure/approach, similar to how Martin did it and what Arnold did in CR.
True, but strip all of that away and the
“ Bond Sound” , at its purest, was established by John Barry. Now of course throughout his tenure he played with variations, but when all is said and done, he created a timeless musical identity for the cinematic James Bond; any composer who follows, and has followed, will incorporate that musical identity.
They will indeed, but for my money Newman did it right. Which isn't to say any future composers have to sound like Newman, but just that he put just the right amount of trad Barry/Bond sound in there but made it sound fresh.
The closest we got to another Bond soundtrack by him besides Moviola was for THE SPECIALIST, which I thought would have worked well when spliced into this scene in GE.
I always thought this would at least sound great for the Monte Carlo casino sequence.
Do you think it's my first day, @FrankXavier? ;)
A far better score than that film deserved.
Only a Sith deals in absolute
I agree, but it’s a guilty pleasure. 😏
Anything with Sharon in it usually has an emphasis on the pleasure, too. ;)
The tweet is gone, it seems.
Yeah a Barry in the 90s would've sounded like Specialist or Mercury Rising. I'm sure it would be lovely (because he's John Barry) and have a great mood to it, but possibly not hugely exciting, and there may well have been a strangely large amount of harmonica! :)
Twangy guitar and wah-wah trumpets would be unlikely to feature!
What did it say?