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Re: A Good Day to Die Hard not composed by Beltrami??
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• Posted by: Edmund Meinerts   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Monday, January 18, 2016, at 2:02 p.m.
• IP Address: p3ee2ff25.dip0.t-ipconnect.de
• In Response to: Re: A Good Day to Die Hard not composed by Bel... (azulocean)

> Unfortunately, The Cove is one of my favorite cues, but that's good news.
> Again, we can be assured that it is indeed his voice and style here, as
> opposed to many cooks in the kitchen? (I do consider The Downed Dragon to
> be a significant cue, since it is a defining moment of the film, and I've
> pointed to it as a masterful piece of thematic statements. That fiddle at
> the end!)

Funny, "The Downed Dragon" has always been one of my least-returned-to cues from How to Train Your Dragon. I do love the dramatic fiddle bit, but it makes a reappearance in the far superior (and Powell-only!) "Battling the Green Death", so I get my fix for it there. wink

I like "The Cove", but it's basically just the Astrid theme on a, uh, melodica? I want to say accordeon, but that doesn't seem quite right either. In any case, that theme is 100% Powell's for sure. If it was Mollo's choice to orchestrate it that way, good on him - it's a lovely low-key moment.

> I did know about the unofficial Hans Zimmer website, but I didn't know
> they provided cue attribution. Where is that on the page?

Just search a score, call up its page and it'll be there inside the track list. Not every score has it, but plenty do (and often even the complete scores). Here, for instance, is Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End:

http://hans-zimmer.com/index.php?rub=disco&id=1127

Yikes!

> And just for kicks and giggles, which MV/RC score was the credited
> composer involved in the least?

Well, Hans Zimmer is co-credited for Henri IV but didn't write a note. It's all Henry Jackman. Similar story with Winter's Tale and Rupert Gregson-Williams, but Zimmer did provide a short piano theme to that (the first thing you hear in the opening cue) which means his name appears by proxy on a lot of cues that he actually wasn't involved in shaping.

> (Does Filmtracks have a PM system? I doubt that the community would
> appreciate me starting a thread every time I get curious!)

It does have an email option if you'd like. smile




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