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I'm completely crushed. He was in a really good phase of his career where he was only doing a couple of scores a year and really making them count. His score for Annaud's Wolf Totem this year was overwhelmingly great.
He's probably a figure of lol on here because of titanic and Braveheart, but at his best, and there are many many examples of such, he was the master of a kind of post-Strauss post-Delius pantheistic painterly ecstasy. Despite the frequent borrowings of musical phrases from the classical repertoire he had his own sound in spades which no one else could approximate.
Tomorrow I'll listen to avatar, search for spock, brainstorm, iris, wolf totem, sneakers and whatever else strikes me.
RIP
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
ten months pass...
wolf totem was such a tremendously strong score to stand as (one of) his last completed. Best film score I heard last year. crazy that it's been almost a year since the plane crash. Other kinds of music are rife with untimely passings but film composing never suffered something like this before. Film composers tend to get pretty old and keep on working. Horner was a couple of decades past his lol horner titanic/braveheart period and in this millenium had attained a real mastery of the form; it would have been so cool to hear what he would have done. So ridiculously fluent but always aiming for the ecstatic place.
final track on the wolf totem OST, 'return to the wild', just made me cry a little.
It has come out that he had almost completed a full score for the forthcoming A Fuqua remake of the Magnificent Seven as a 'surprise' for Fuqua and without having even been hired for the job yet. When this was reported soon after he died it seemed farfetched but apparently it's true, and that's the score they'll use in the movie.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
three weeks pass...