Imagine being just some guy who writes movie soundtracks nobody cares about, and one day they ask you to compose the music for a movie called “Star Trek II”. You don’t even watch TV so you don’t know the series and the first movie didn’t impress you, but a job is a job so that’s fine I guess. Imagine reading the script and thinking “okay, everything else will be obvious in the visuals so I’m going to do the entire soundtrack about the relationship between Kirk and Spock, Idk it looks like a good idea”, and then the movie is a success and everyone loves Kirk and Spock’s affection for each other and you think “well I guess I was right” and they ask you to work on the sequel that is even more focused on them, and you get popular for your work and you do a lot of things and 15 years later you become super famous as the guy who did the music for Titanic (which is, coincidentally, a movie taking place inside a ship focused on two people who love each other and when the ship is in danger one of them dies… just a coincidence, of course)
[Post inspired by this interview with James Horner :P]
Hail to all you sagacious beings who celebrate the Earth’s successive seasons! Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, Fall’s arrival brings cooler evenings, with the promise of bountiful harvests to come. The impending touch of frost should, ere long, ignite leaves to blaze with vivid colors. Those in the Southern Hemisphere rejoice in the triumph of Spring’s active growth over Winter’s dormancy. They…
I always thought that parts of the Apollo 13 score sounded like parts of the score from Balto and I was today years old when I learned that both films scores were composed by James Horner.
Forgot that James Horner scored Avatar 2009 but I was struggling to figure out what sections towards the end were reminding me of (for reference Jake on the floor asphyxiating after Quaritch is defeated). It's the Perfect Storm. The scene before the final wave iirc. The trawler capsized.
Every single time Neteyam’s song cord plays is a gut punch to my heart.
The first time I noticed it being played Is when The Sullys are flying away from the Omatikaya. And like Neteyam says, “I want to go home.”
The second time I noticed the songcord motiv was when Neytiri threatens spider. “A son for a son”
In “From darkness to light” The melody seems as if it’s right there. “Like a word about to be spoken” but never quite heard.
I notice the repeating motif of Neteyam’s song cord in so many songs. But unfortunately I do not have the time or the skills to analyze the the sound track.
I have heard from a lot of Avatar fans the general opinion seems to be that they reused too much of the old soundtrack but, personally I don’t think that is the case. The reason why the old sound melodies stand out to us so much is because we are used to them and the old sounds being used in the emotionally charged scenes probably didn’t help.
Personally I think the new sound track was absolutely wonderful, and I’m a bit in love.
If anyone would like to share any thing they noticed from the sound track feel free to dm me, I’m always open to talk about avatar. :D
Also if you guys want to listen to the soundtrack I recommend “Avatar: The Way of Water (Original score)” over “Avatar: The Way of Water (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” the first one has 32 songs while the second has 22