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WAR OF THIS WORLD: John Williams' Latest Spielberg Score

By: Randall Larson
Date: Monday, December 19, 2005

Award-winning composer John Williams has had a rather fruitful year. He wrote his final STAR WARS score. He scored a Steven Spielberg summer action movie (WAR OF THE WORLDS). He scored a period drama (MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA). To finish off the year, he scored yet another Spielberg movie - this time, the dark dramatic thriller MUNICH. The film is an action drama that tells the story about the aftermath of the massacre of the Israeli Olympic team at 1972's Olympic Games.

Soundtrack.net has posted an exclusive "first listen" to William's MUNICH score, including track-by-track analysis of the forthcoming Decca soundtrack album with sample music clips from each track. The CD will be released on December 27th. The film opens Dec 23rd.

Waft on over to www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=175 for the full scoop on MUNICH, the movie score, which Soundtrack.Net editor Dan Goldwasser has described as "a dark emotional contender for best score of the year."

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• Dec 19, 2005, 07:27am •
Muich is defintle going to end up an unappreciated gem, soundtrack and all....from everything I have read this film should be good.

• Dec 19, 2005, 12:23pm •
I know this will be blasphemy to many people here, but I am not a big fan of William's scores. He's good at writing themes (Jaws, Indy, Superman, etc.) but more often than not his scores are intrusive and overblown. The music in a movie should not become the focus, where you can't concentrate on what's going on because the music is blasting over everything that's happening. Williams is best when he takes it down a few notches (Born on the 4th of July) but I think some directors are so enamored of him (Speilberg, Lucas) that they let him loose & he ruins the viewing experience.

• Dec 19, 2005, 03:56pm •
I do kind of agree with joeypsychotic, but generally I'm a fan of Williams. Honestly, I can't think of a movie lately that had a theme that I hummed or whistled later, like the originaly Star Wars, Indy, or Jaws. What happened to themes?

• Dec 19, 2005, 03:57pm •
Ok, maybe Kill Bill, but that wasn't Williams.

• Dec 20, 2005, 03:34pm •
Shore's LOTR scores are terrific. Two of my other faves are James Newton Howard's Unbreakble and Trevor Jones' work on Last of The Mohicans.

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