[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

Slightly. I like the sentiment though.

That's exactly why I deleted you as a friend in facebook. You people, with no respect for anyone or anything. No respect to composers (Hans) not to people here ( Krisz, me..)
I left this forum 2 years ago. Why? I got tired of recieve offensive comments about both my english and my thoughts. it was part of this "Game" at the begining, but seriously your behavious is really pathetic.
So now what? Since you know I don't read this fórum anymore (surprise!) you talk about me...Is this honest? is that fair? No, it isn't. I didn't do anything except share my enthusiasm here!

I used to enjoy your reviews James. But what you just did with Hans (yes, with HANS) in your recent "articles" is pathetic, nasty and unfunny.

I'm pretty sure now all you are going to say it's because I got credited in Hans' Album. Think whatever you want people but.... I LEFT THIS FORUM YEARS AGO.

Thanks for talking about me when I'm not here. It's really civilized and it says pretty much everything about you.

Bye.
Edit: Im not going to read any reply.

No you didn't because if you did you wouldn't have written the post above.

-Erik-

When he was reasonable, yes. He's posts were quite entertaining and at times thoughtful.

But he needs to grow up. I had him as a Facebook friend once but he unfriended me because I deleted a tasteless post that he posted on my timeline (this coming after he asked me to do a favour for him.) Well, that caused a shit storm and he proceeded to have a temper tantrum, wrote one final immature post and unfriended me. I just laughed it off.

That basically summed up his time around here as well.

-Erik-

Now he blocked me as well

I'm not taking any sides on anything, but I've always found it fascinating that there can be so much drama and intrigue in such a minor field as film music, of all things -- an important and underrated artform, no doubt, but still a trifle in the scheme of things.

Give the poor guy a break, he's only Spanish!

If my girlfriend is reading this, I don't really mean that. In fact Spanish people are the most reasonable people I know and I love you and please don't kill me.

Back to this, I would like to stress one thing.

A bit earlier in the same Q&A Hans praised Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for the perfect development of a very simple idea (the four-note motif in that piece).

Another thing I would love to point out is that, which I did many times recently, Hans isn't critical of complex music at all, knowing composers he is a fan of (almost every major film score composer, everyone on this board loves, Williams, Goldsmith, obviously Morricone).

The phrasing was poor and done very quickly, probably he was taken off-guard by the question itself. That's the only way I can and want to defend him. He's very sensitive to criticism (as I said, there are things I don't want to go into in public, if anyone is interested, I can share it privately, but ONLY if someone promises me not to mention it on the public forum) and hearing this got to him, I believe.

Also, what I want to say is that if you look at the music, you can notice that even the most complex stuff written, be it Williams or Horner, is based inherently on very simple material that is put against itself. I would like to mention here a score I really adore...

Williams' Black Sunday, one of my all-time favourites by the man, is based on several very simple motifs and not crying-out-loud melodic ones. What he does though is use them in a perfectly leitmotivic way to the point of clashing them against each other at times. Hell, he even goes out as far to make a (brilliant at that!) fugue out of them which as those with some musical expertise know that is the hardest and most precise form of music that at least could be written in a certain point of time. So, at the end of the day, complex music is getting and clashing simple ideas with each other.

Also, one little thing. A lot of people love James Horner's Samuel's Death from Legends of the Fall, I go as far as calling it my favourite Horner action piece. Now, those who know it very well (a lot of you, I suppose), please tell me. What do you find hummable in that piece? The action themes (greatly melodic) at the beginning or rather the big dramatic, very complex and intense, aching string soar (sorry for the word) near the end?