Out of Context Podcast Quotes"Why is the film score to E.T. such a masterpiece?" - DAVID W. COLLINS, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - the Music (Part I), The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
"Bobby wants to write a film score!" - KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ, From Frozen to Coco: An Interview with Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Part II), The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #NationalFilmScoreDay #KristenAndersonlopez
"The end result is, of course, a 'timeless' film score!" - DAVID W. COLLINS, The Goonies: the Music, The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #goonies #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
"In order to really understand the film score, we need to understand the film itself!" - DAVID W. COLLINS, Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Music (part I), The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #indianajones #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
ScribblemacherToday's #vgmwednesday happens to coincide with #NationalFilmScoreDay so I present the main theme for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Composed by film and TV music veteran Harry Gregson-Williams, it captures Kojima's cinema bombast perfectly. What I really love about it is how it ends almost as though it is being cut off right as it hits its most dramatic moment, setting an epic-but-unfulfilled tone for a game that is about to do the same thing to the player.
Metal Gear Solid 2 Soundtrack - Main Theme
"Wendy Carlos is known mostly for her electronic music in film scores!" - DAVID W. COLLINS, Tron, the Music (Part I), The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #tron #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
"Spielberg, and therefore John Williams, and therefore the score, identify with our main characters' childlike wonder." - DAVID W. COLLINS, Jurassic Park: The Music (Part I), The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #jurassicpark #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
"And he's had a steady stream of TV and film scores ever since!" - DAVID W. COLLINS, The Goonies: the Music, The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #goonies #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins
"Alfred composed the scores to over two hundred classic movies, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, and The Grapes of Wrath." - DALLAS TAYLOR, 20th Century Fox, Twenty Thousand Hertz #TwentyThousandHertz #NationalFilmScoreDay #DallasTaylor
"We have to talk about the most influential film score of all time!" - DAVID W. COLLINS, Doom and Gloom: Music has a word for Death, The Soundtrack Show #TheSoundtrackShow #NationalFilmScoreDay #DavidWCollins