Bond 24 score
jamesm123
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Imagine, I know it will never happen, but how amazing would it be if they collated all the Barry scores and used bits here and there for the movie score. Could be half Thomas Newman/David Arnold or all John Barry. I think if they made sure it was mastered and eq'ed the same it would work.
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On YouTube there are many examples of rescored Bond scenes which may be of interest, and of course there's always "Never Say McClory Again"
Here's a plug for a little known newcomer, Italian born but Hollywood based Daniele Luppi. I don't know if anyone here is familiar with the Starz show "Magic City" which is essentially about gangsters, hoteliers, etc in Miami Beach in 1960. Luppi composes the score and it is very Bond-like and Barryesce. In fact the title sequence is very obviously influenced by Binder and the Bond films.
would love to hear the return of D Arnold.
Giacchino is good at imitating other composers but he doesn't have a voice of his own and his compositions and orchestrations are often quite mechanical. He also suffers from the same problem that most of today's hacks have, which is an over-reliance on ostinatos at the expense of genuine theme and motif development and implementation.
Giacchino's popularity says more about the poor state of film music today than his own talents and abilities.
You're kidding, right? Giacchino's scores are unreal. If you want a taste of his own voice, just take a listen at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3eRXmboC4. I'd say that Giacchino, David Arnold and John Williams are the top 3 composers of film today. Giacchino would make a perfect Bond composer. I suppose you have a right to your opinion, but in this case, it's just dead wrong, collector of scores for 20 years or not.
Dude, HowardB has it right. Isn't the reason all of us Bond fans loved the scores to CR and QoS, BECAUSE of how similar to John Barry it sounded? The point if getting Giacchino to do the score would be exactly that. You said yourself that Giachinno was good at imitation. Don't think you're the only musician on here pal. Many of us want back the sexy, brassy music and Giachinno could totally do that. He'd sure as heck be better than Newman. At least Giachinno could give us melody and some motif.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvsYgmZ_DU
Also, I think Lorne Balfe would be great. He's worked a lot with Hans Zimmer, and his work on AC3 was especially pretty good.
Anyway, it'll probably be Newman again, but there are a lot of great composers out there that could make a great Bond score.
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, that's true. But the general consensus seems to be that Giaccino is a good composer. He isn't brilliant, he isn't God, he's just good. He's good at imitation which is why I would think he'd be an obvious choice. We liked David Arnold because he sounded like Barry.
If you don't find Giaccino appealing, then who do YOU suggest?
Most of the film composers these days underwhelm me, so I'm not sure that I would want any of them so much as someone else who can bring both the proper melodic qualities and the gravitas that a Bond soundtrack should have.