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Well, it's so obvious, far more obvious than his reference to the Shostakovitch waltz in the SHELLFISH score, that I figure it has to be a homage. (Otherwise he's an idiot, and he doesn't seem like a fool.) It doesn't matter to me in this case, as he's not hiding the inspiration at all. I must admit, I'm never bothered when something THAT famous is quoted. Did Philippe Rombi reference Beethoven's 5th on JEUX D'ENFANTS when he quoted it?

And it is one track out of a score with a lot more to offer.

GEORGES DELERUE - tours de monde tours de ciel, followed by GABRIEL YARED - Cold mountain.

Truth to be told, and no matter how much i enjoyed certain released from the recent years, nobody writes in such a fashion anymore. Apart from very rare cases, like Desplat for instance. Is it a change of eras? Is it something deeper related to composers', cinema's and film music's quality? Who knows. But regardless, i am glad those works DO exist for us to enjoy, even from the past.

6 years back is a significant amount of time

And The Lives of Others, and L'Avion? I'll put it this way... Yared is not dead yet.

I consider Flight Of Ponyo as an obvious parody, rather than a hommage. Because, aside from the track title, Ponyo (the main character, fishgirl) is called Brunhild by her father. I also heard the storyline has some more similarities with The Ring of the Nibelung, though I don't know about that mythology in detail.


And yes, he can be called the Japanese John Williams, because of his popularity. Most Japanese people can recognize the Mononoke theme. And perhaps he's known more than JW, especially among younger people (aka the Ghibli generation).

He also can be called the Japanese Alan Menken or Sharman Brothers, 'cause his Ghibli songs are really popular. Children sing them in school, learn to play on piano or recorder, and so on.

I also call him the Japanese Hans Zimmer, because he has thousands of dedicated fans, as well as some antis (not so many as Z's, though)

Because it's not his real name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi

Actually his real name is very... ordinary.

I prefer LWW too!

NP: King Kong - James Newton Howard

A lovely score by the maestro!

FUCK I hate writing essays on crap I don't give a shit about.

Now now, that's no way to talk about Williams 'The Last Crusade'

If it was an essay on that, I'd have written a thousand essays by now.

NP: Transformers - Steve Jablonsky

Though most of the rest of the album is quite generic MV stuff (though enjoyable), Arrival To Earth is a very beautiful piece of score I really loved!

NP:Largo Winch (Desplat)

Im playing it, finally.

It goes from the now boring Desplat typical writting, to Arnold's Godzilla to Powell's Agent Cody Banks

You should be used to this from Jordi by now.

I'd disagree with you on this one Demetris. Only because there are times when I'm randomly listening to my "favourite tracks" playlist on my mp3 player and a track will come on where I think it's an obscure Delerue track - only to find that it's something composed by Ángel Illarramendi.

I find this happening quite regularly, so I'd say that Illarramendi does compose in the "Delerue style." When I have some specific examples I'll let you know.