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Last great/classic John Williams score?


I’m sure John Williams will always be considered the master of movie soundtracks (and rightfully so), but it seems (to me at least) that a lot of his more recent film scores haven’t achieved the classic status that so many of his earlier scores have. Now, perhaps this is just because they haven’t had enough time to achieve “classic” status (since I wasn’t alive when they were released, I don’t know how long it took the “Jaws”, “Star Wars”, and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” soundtracks to become classics). Still, it seems like the last soundtrack that Williams wrote that has truly achieved “classic” status (due to the fact that I’ve seen music from it included on “greatest hits” albums) was “Schindler’s List”. So, what do other people think? Was “Schindler’s List” his last truly great score, or has he written music since then that will one day be considered classics?

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Sorcerer's Stone has been argued to be a classic.

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I think one day the Adventures of Tintin will be considered a classic. And Harry Potter wasn't too long ago.



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Fictions work on sh!t happening, otherwise it isn't a plot, it's a painting.

0. Things can be fictional without a plot.

1. Now if one fictional painting has text painted within, then a plot might be there.

2. If a painting is a collage of images, then a plot might be there.

3. If the word "sequel" in red is the subject of a painting containing skulls, then?

Sequels just happen to rely upon a brief memory of what came before

4. Could be a plot of events, so why look to the end?

A sequel is an individual expression of its own ideas with a relationship to a prior art work.

Burton's 1989 is superior over Begins and Raises. This proves the entire trilogy isn't a masterpiece because 1989 is outdated. Just because the middle installment is fast and sexy with a pair of big breast, doesn't make it Vergito.
Dark Knight.

I'm evaluating you on what that end result- what that effort- ultimately constitutes.

But the ending is being showed in beinging.

Fictions work on sh!t happening


Well, you can't evaluate if it's always got to be happening. It's a live show, who says it's going to finish? People record their lives for research and studying, who's to say you're going to see their end. The end is the hook that CNN or any news station feeds off of.






A football game?


Well, if I'm building to Sliver lining's playbook then, maybe it has something to do with it? Wait.

Watch a new show, judge the end.

they are elements in the final form.

But you don't know the future of the seasons.

Just because something is in a production stage doesn't mean ir wo

In other words, you're judging a book by its cover.


That doesn't disqualify it from being a 'masterpiece', that's just an indication he knew what he was doing in the construction of his storytelling.


A sequel is an individual expression of its own ideas with a relationship to a prior art work.

If the work is actually meaningful or entertaining, if it says something, then I can respect it. But it can only say something in its final form.


But you've already stated that unfinished work creates some level of entertainment.Sometimes everything in art isn't to be finished, only handed down on purpose. For example, a late night show or those who host world news. Art can be powerful in it's creation and effort to reach meaning. The idea that everything in art comes to an end is dumb.

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yeah, Jurassic Park was probably his last "classic" one. It's on my motivational movie themes playlist so there ya go.

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Harry Potter 1,2,3. The amount of beautiful Themes in those rival any other trilogy he did. Especially HP3!

Memoirs of a Geisha should have gotten the oscar that year

Tintin is MASSIVE and complex and monstrous orchestrations.

War Horse and Lincoln are beautifully English and American. Way simpler in melodies but then so are Schindler's List and Angela's Ashes which is so under rated. The main theme to Angela's Ashes and Back to America. Holy Hell. Beautiful themes. Go listen to the string writing in Lincoln especially "With Malice Toward None". If that isn't purely American and just gorgeous then I don't know what is.

The only truly versatile film composer still alive that has an actual grasp of every aspect of the orchestra. Not hacks writing barely any notes and just having them repeat and going look, this sounds like a chase scene... NOT!

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