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The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer)
Hans Zimmer really pisses me off!!!!

Hans Zimmer really pisses me off!!!!
Acehit
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Friday, August 6, 2004 (1:21 p.m.) 

RITE NOW IM PISSED.

I REALLY LUVED DIS SOUNDTRACK BUT WE HAVE A PROBLEM, AND ITS DA SAME PROBLEM WE HAD WID GLADIATOR SOUNDTRACK.

CAREFULLY LISTEN TO THE END OF AND BEGGINNING OF TRACKS, THEY JOIN! HANZ ZIMMER HAS CONDUCTED ONE WHOLE MUSIC, AND JUST SPLIT IT FOR THE SAKE OF THE SOUNDTRACK, JUST LIKE HE DID WID GLADIATOR.

IF U CAREFULLY LISTEN TO GLADIATOR, ITS ALL ONE TRACK SPLIT INTO DIFFERENT TRACKS!

THIS IS SO ANNOYING, I HAD RE-EDIT THESE TRACKS MYSELF AND JOIN MOST OF THEM WHICH MADE THEM LONGER, AND I DUNNO IF ITS ZIMMER THAT CANT BE ARSED TO CONDUCT MUSIC PROPERLY FOR THE SCORE, OR WOT BUT DIS IS SO UNPROFESIONAL!

I DONT KNOW WHY SUCH GREAT PIECES OF MUSIC HAVE TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS, BECAUSE WHERE THER TRACKS JOIN, YOU CAN HEAR A SLIGHT GLITCH!

VERY DISAPOINTED INDEED!


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Re: Hans Zimmer really pisses me off!!!!
Clyde
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 (7:25 a.m.) 

First of all, don't post a message saying someone else is unprofessional when you don't know the entire situation. What you know is from your point of view, you don't know what happened when the music and score was written. How dare you call someone else unprofessional when you can't use proper grammatical structure (let me know if you don't understand that word). Secondly, if you are this upset by the situation there is only one thing to do about it, stop complaining and become a composer. On the positive side it seemed as if you like to listen to the score, and interact with it (the comments about adding them together etc), to often I have seen young people complain about a situation, yet do nothing about it. Don't get caught in the trap.
> RITE NOW IM PISSED.

> I REALLY LUVED DIS SOUNDTRACK BUT WE HAVE A PROBLEM, AND ITS DA SAME
> PROBLEM WE HAD WID GLADIATOR SOUNDTRACK.

> CAREFULLY LISTEN TO THE END OF AND BEGGINNING OF TRACKS, THEY JOIN! HANZ
> ZIMMER HAS CONDUCTED ONE WHOLE MUSIC, AND JUST SPLIT IT FOR THE SAKE OF
> THE SOUNDTRACK, JUST LIKE HE DID WID GLADIATOR.

> IF U CAREFULLY LISTEN TO GLADIATOR, ITS ALL ONE TRACK SPLIT INTO DIFFERENT
> TRACKS!

> THIS IS SO ANNOYING, I HAD RE-EDIT THESE TRACKS MYSELF AND JOIN MOST OF
> THEM WHICH MADE THEM LONGER, AND I DUNNO IF ITS ZIMMER THAT CANT BE ARSED
> TO CONDUCT MUSIC PROPERLY FOR THE SCORE, OR WOT BUT DIS IS SO
> UNPROFESIONAL!

> I DONT KNOW WHY SUCH GREAT PIECES OF MUSIC HAVE TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS,
> BECAUSE WHERE THER TRACKS JOIN, YOU CAN HEAR A SLIGHT GLITCH!

> VERY DISAPOINTED INDEED!


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Re: Hans Zimmer really pisses me off!!!!
Jake Barttlet
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Sunday, September 19, 2004 (6:50 p.m.) 

> RITE NOW IM PISSED.

> I REALLY LUVED DIS SOUNDTRACK BUT WE HAVE A PROBLEM, AND ITS DA SAME
> PROBLEM WE HAD WID GLADIATOR SOUNDTRACK.

> CAREFULLY LISTEN TO THE END OF AND BEGGINNING OF TRACKS, THEY JOIN! HANZ
> ZIMMER HAS CONDUCTED ONE WHOLE MUSIC, AND JUST SPLIT IT FOR THE SAKE OF
> THE SOUNDTRACK, JUST LIKE HE DID WID GLADIATOR.

> IF U CAREFULLY LISTEN TO GLADIATOR, ITS ALL ONE TRACK SPLIT INTO DIFFERENT
> TRACKS!

> THIS IS SO ANNOYING, I HAD RE-EDIT THESE TRACKS MYSELF AND JOIN MOST OF
> THEM WHICH MADE THEM LONGER, AND I DUNNO IF ITS ZIMMER THAT CANT BE ARSED
> TO CONDUCT MUSIC PROPERLY FOR THE SCORE, OR WOT BUT DIS IS SO
> UNPROFESIONAL!

> I DONT KNOW WHY SUCH GREAT PIECES OF MUSIC HAVE TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS,
> BECAUSE WHERE THER TRACKS JOIN, YOU CAN HEAR A SLIGHT GLITCH!

> VERY DISAPOINTED INDEED!

Learn to speak Du-du-dummy!


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Re: Hans Zimmer really pisses me off!!!!
Gil
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Friday, October 15, 2004 (2:46 p.m.) 

Look, Zimmer is not the first to use this structure. If you ever heard 1942 by Vangelis, for example, you would notice the same structure was implemented.

The reason is merely emphasizing different cues throughout the soundtrack. Notice the difference between tracks 11 (Reunion) and 12 (Slaves to Rome) on Gladiator. Each one of them has a main and different cue. The continuity motif has an added value to the wholeness of the track. This is not an easy task, and therefore delibiratly applied.

You should at least appreciate the good work Zimmer did in The Last Samurai as well as in Gladiator and MI2 (and Pirates of the Caribbean, composed by Badelt at media ventures).



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Sunday, January 30, 2005 (10:59 p.m.) 

the thing that frustrated me the most was that it sounded like pearl harbor at times as for the format or the way he wrote sounds find to me he is trying something new and sometimes change is a good thing

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