While predicting the future is something we can only dream of, I have always found that digging into the past reveals recurring patterns that tend to point in a particular direction. Even so, with this year’s Oscar race for the … Continue reading →
When director Christopher Nolan first approached his regular composer, Hans Zimmer, to write the score for Interstellar, he wanted to avoid the clichés associated with the science-fiction genre and “engage Hans in a very pure creative process.” To do this, … Continue reading →
2013’s Man of Steel takes quite a different approach to the Superman story than 1978’s well known Superman: The Movie. The latter film is largely optimistic in tone, lighthearted, and includes touches of humor. Indeed, when John Williams scored the … Continue reading →
As I mentioned in the first post of this series, from watching the Dark Knight films, one can get the impression that the soundtracks are largely atmospheric rather than tuneful. But that’s mainly because the themes that Hans Zimmer writes are … Continue reading →
Hans Zimmer worked alone for the trilogy’s final installment instead of collaborating with James Newton Howard, who claimed that, although he had contributed much to the music of these films, Zimmer was really “the mastermind behind the Batman scores.” Like … Continue reading →
Although the score for The Dark Knight was a collaboration between Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, the composers divided up the music for the two main villains of the film, Zimmer writing the music for the Joker, Howard that of … Continue reading →
Like Batman Begins, the music of The Dark Knight was composed by both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Of course many themes from the first movie reappear in this second instalment, but it also has several new themes of … Continue reading →
In my last post, I discussed the variations on the most prominent theme in Batman Begins: a two-note motive of D-F for Batman. But there are three other themes that appear in the film at prominent moments. These are described … Continue reading →
Watching the movies of the Dark Knight trilogy, it can be easy to come away feeling that the score, by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, is composed of atmospheric music rather than catchy themes. But the motive for Batman … Continue reading →
This past summer, I was one of the countless filmgoers that experienced 2012’s biggest action flick, The Dark Knight Rises, in a theatre fully equipped with the highest of high technology, namely, the colossal screen and larger-than-life surround sound. I … Continue reading →
