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Why, is David Arnold blackballed at Eon Productions? I don't know but I guess something must've happened for him not to have been used as composer since QoS.
Yep. It felt like all the action lost it's edge with the hiring of Newman. He's okay but it's backwards step compared to Arnold
I can’t disagree with their desire to look for new composers. I love the idea of seeing new composers bringing their own voices to the Bond sound and making it a richer tapestry. It shouldn’t be left to one guy for an indefinite amount of years. John Barry was an exception because he was an exceptional composer on the level of cinematic legends like John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith.
Of course, I’m not a fan of Arnold and think he’s grossly overrated by the Bond fan community. I actually do like his QOS score for the most part, and think that if it’s his last score he ever does for Bond he at least saved his best for last. But IMO he doesn’t deserve to keep scoring Bond when we have so many other and better composers out there. I already got my longtime wish fulfillment of Hans Zimmer scoring Bond. I would love to hear a score by Alberto Iglesias.
His next film is Confess, Fletch, out in a week or two.
Yes. I feel Arnold is very happy that he's done work on James Bond. Because he said John Barry, YOLT & OHMSS got him into Bond when he was growing up in Luton. I remember him saying after finishing TND's score, he didn't care if he got hit by a bus, I think because he had finally scored a Bond film, because he said he wanted to score GE, but he was told Serra had already been signed. He also said he's been asked frequently to come fully into Hollywood, but he said he is very happy in the UK and that he likes working with people he loves, even if it's not the most popular film or project in the world, so it means he has been turning down projects. He also said because at some point in life, it's going to be the last day, so him spending it with people he likes is more important to him than chasing big projects, that would require him to leave the UK. He is a simple man, it seems. It's not looking like EON would want him back, but I would be very happy to have him back. Arnold & Goldfrapp would make a very good title song for Bond 26.
Still, John Williams is the greatest movie score composer, probably EVER (caps for emphasis). At least among the surviving ones (Morricone would have been a contender), but we don't have to think about the others, really. If he truly wants to score the next Bond film, Babs and Mike better hurry, even if they have no idea about the movie itself yet. With all due respect and anxiety, John (at 90) may not be around for much longer. And that would be one of the saddest occasions in movie score history.
Zimmer is one of the best composers around, I think if I were given the choice of who to score NTTD I'd still get him if I could because of his body of work. It turned out to be fairly uninspired, and I suspect he and his team didn't get very long to work on it, but picking him was still a very solid choice and I think they were right to do it.
I still think that most of what Zimmer produced sounds like it was created by his computer programs. Totally generic and replaceable by what some other computer program created, including the stuff he contributed to NTTD while not relying on what John Barry provided as cue. There is not one Zimmer theme/melody that I find worth remembering, and I couldn't really connect any of them with a certain movie. Give me any other major movie score composer any time.
I will say that his NTTD stuff sounded like his Batman stuff.
None of those are scores I really every listen to myself, but I can see that they are modern classics.
"Look up and you'll see me
I'm the man of mystery
I'm the man with the golden touch
I'm the man who always gets his way
I'm James Bond, I'm James Bond
And I can have any girl I want
I'm James Bond, I'm James Bond
And I never ever say die
I'm the man with the license to kill
I'm the man with the world at my feet
I'm the man who always comes out on top
I'm James Bond, I'm James Bond
And I can have any girl I want
I'm James Bond, I'm James Bond
And I never ever say die"
Is Iggy Pop recording it?