So Sup Forums,
who's the best film composer working today?
So Sup Forums
Nolan Moore
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Samuel Price
Logan Williams
Steven Price
Ethan Allen
Joe Hisaishi
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Easton Carter
Oh hi Steve
Luis Sanders
Probaly Desplate or Giacchino, but desu they're nothing compared to the classic composers of the 50s.
Ayden Wood
cliff martinez
Ian Edwards
John Williams
Bentley Garcia
Although I do wanna say Ennio Morricone is still making good stuff:
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This movie kind of felt like a hipster Hitchcock tribute but the score was terrific.
Lucas Russell
John Williams has been going downhill since the 60s desu.
He used to do really impressive scores, especially in comedies. As Terry Teachout has pointed out, comedies don't usually have particularly good scores. For many years they barely had scores at all (most sound comedies in the '30s and '40s just didn't use music except in sentimental or action scenes). And big-name composers would hardly ever work on them; at Fox, Alfred Newman almost never did comedies, and neither did his friend Bernard Herrmann; Newman usually handed comedy scores to Cyril Mockridge, who cobbled together scores based on familiar public-domain tunes. John Williams in the '60s was one of the few composers who really specialized in comedy, and his scores for movies like this or Guide For the Married Man were a lot funnier and more imaginative than most; in fact, I like his early comedy music better than most of his bombastic post-Star Wars scores.
Here's a dialogue-free scene from Bachelor Flat which is carried by Williams' music, and also contains some Hitchcockian angles (a reminder that Tashlin always wanted to do a serious thriller, but he could never put such a project together).
Nicholas Price
Jerry Goldsmith
Disasterpiece
Trent Reznor
Benjamin Stewart
Jerry died like 10 years ago, who the fuck is Disasterpiece? Is that some ambient electronic hipster film composer?
Jordan Rogers
He did the It Follows soundtrack. Shitty movie, unbelievably good soundtrack.
Logan Murphy
it's like with every wave of that wand, he's casting a musical spell, like the players are under his magical control
Joseph Wood
Jon Brion
Nathaniel Lopez
Evan Richardson
Me
Chase Diaz
Thomas Newman
Tyler Morales
Disasterpiece is amazing in everything, games films shows you name it.
John Nguyen
first post, best post
Jason Murphy
Alexandre Desplat is fucking great. I was pissed when he dropped out of Rogue One.
Gabriel Collins
>first post, best post
redditor spotted
Daniel Morris
Clint Mansell
Xavier Reyes
James Newton Howard
Ryder Moore
Trent Reznor, he's the only composer doing something different
Carson Martin
Thomas Newman
Clint Mansell
Johnny Greenwood
Giachiano
FIGHT ME BITCHES!
Kevin Sanders
desu, even though Hans Zimmer is the most mainstream fucking score writer in the movie industry some of the soundtracks he made are just staright up fantastic.
The soundtrack for the mediocre flick Interstellar for example, was inspired by My Heart's In the Highlands on organ, and thus the soundtrack uses a lot of those arpeggios played on a pipe organ. It's actually not something you hear everyday. The soundtrack of interstellar stayed stuck in my head for quite a while wafter watching the flick.
Jayden Morgan
Thomas Newman
Anthony Howard
Please
Thomas Newman's scores are so fucking formulaic. It's the same mellow string chords with piano melody played over them every single time. The man never takes risks, always stays within the familiar harmonies.
This is what happens when Sup Forums fags try talking about music or scores for that matter.
Robert Moore
I don't think Mr. Newman needs to take risks harmonically when he is adventurous sonically. The combinations of instruments create colors that are unique to him.
Julian Hall
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phew, almost sent me into a fit of blind rage
Ian Williams
>6 strings and a piano
>sonically unique
i mean... no.
anyone trying drawing inspiration for scores from mute aesthetic and impressionism/french cinema ends up with a score like his
Lincoln Phillips
Good choice.
has beens
90% of the shit he makes is bland and forgettable
Correct answer is Carter Burwell
Carson Roberts
6 strings and a piano is a gross understatement. His percussion combinations alone are worth while.
Justin Morris
every single answer in this thread is wrong, btw
Sup Forums is laughing at you right now
Caleb Roberts
>some of the soundtracks he made are just staright up fantastic.
yeah man, his scores that consist of 4 (or in the case of Interstellar, 3) simple chords in diatonic scales are truly amazing. groundbreaking stuff
Liam Allen
John Powell
Colton Hernandez
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phillip glass
Oliver Miller
you mean like most every score ever? experimentation with music in film scores is so limited because they want a film score to not be too noticeable while still having impact. if you played some highly experimental music over a key scene people would only pay attention to the music. you need to find the right balance between powerful and subdued. At least for the flicks that he scores.
If you take a motion picture like There Will Be Blood for example, it's given a lot of time for the score to breathe and dictate the tone.
John King
>37 replies later and someone finally mentions a correct answer
Wow, /tv, great job.
Clint Mansell is close, but not quite there.
>Max Richter
>Phillip Glass
>Ludovico Einaudi
Those are the three correct answers to this question.
Joshua Evans
Levi Brown
>you mean like most every score ever?
what the fuck? no
Liam Harris
finally someone who isn't an absolute philistine
Jason Peterson
Jordan Reyes
>M-M-M-MUH MINIMALISM
how's first year of college treating you?
Kayden Walker
I WENT TO OPERA HOUSES, NOT OPERA SCHOOL.
Blake Mitchell
Samuel Butler
kek
Ryder Gonzalez
Is it just me, or does the Handmaiden main theme sound extremely similar to the theme from Downton Abbey?
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Still good though.
Hudson Smith
>Ludocivo Einaudi
Hahahahaha
Lucas White
>>Max Richter
terrible.
correct answers:
Trent Reznor
Johann Johannsson
Shane Carruth
Mica Levi
Levi Cooper
John Powell
Brayden Reyes
You're a living meme, I hope you know that.
Carson Wilson
>Shane Carruth
how to spot a tryhard
Connor James
James Newton Howard.
Aiden Nelson
Still Philip Glass.
Jordan Sanders
>Ludovico Einaudi, the most uninspired piano player and composer who ever lived
>Good
An anime reaction picture is suitable here
Cameron Phillips
John Powell
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Alexander Wright
I am staggered by how you could possibly be so wrong, friendo.
Lemme guess, you love John Williams?
Isaac Cruz
desplat for sure
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Liam Martin
Brad Fiedel
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Adam Murphy
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Joe Hisaishi
(((Justin Horowitz)))
Isaac Brooks
Dario Marianelli
Adrian Perez
>Giacchino
He's complete shit. His scores are totally unmemorable. Desplat... I could get behind that. He might have elevated Rogue One to mediocrity from boring.
Chase Perry
What an edgy, contrarian opinion. Jaws, ET, Indy, Star Wars 1-6, Home Alone, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Harry Potter... those are his best scores.
To be fair I haven't heard anything of his pre-70s but it seems like you just posted this to let us know you watch older films. wew
Jack Scott
Oh my. I guess someone was 'inspired'.
Aiden Flores
>but it seems like you just posted this to let us know you watch older films
There are two people in this thread posting specifically for this reason.
Ethan Gray
Fuck all these boring hacks. These guys is where it's at. Thomas Newman is goat too.
Brody Evans
>generic shit composition but wildly fluctuating oscillator on a korg synth
>good
Wyatt Cruz
Thomas Newman
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how can netflix even compete?
William White
phillip glass
Jaxon Gutierrez
Please name one example of an interesting Einaudi track.
All I've heard of him was "boring melody accompanied by even more boring arpeggios"
Gabriel Cook
I'm fully convinced that Hans Zimmer and Thomas Newman use generator scripts and havent touched an instrument in years