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I suppose if you believe in a personal God, specifically the Christian version, then seeing the Devil at work in that situation stands to reason.

Of course, I use the word 'reason' in relative terms. The guy's obviously living in the clouds a bit...

Is it, really?

Every composer does weird PR? How are Debney's statements different to Hans Zimmer saying that Danny Elfman's Batman theme is "jolly".

It would be jolly if Elfman add sleigh-bells to the theme. The theme is "heroic" and "mysterious."

-Erik-

Rather going with the usual controversy rather than mentioning the overally loved James Horner who downright lied about not knowing who Jerry Goldsmith was in the beginning of his career. And yet, he dated Goldsmith's daughter and attended Star Trek sessions back in 1979.

How do you know that he believes THIS after *reading* an interview? As I said many very odd things have been said by composers during their PR sessions. Having to promote music for a definitely religious project as The Passsion of the Christ *was*, what would you say to promote the score AND the film if your biggest audience would be very religious people?

What I'm saying is that there might have been exaggeration for effect that went awry, simply. Debney isn't exactly renowned for giving interviews to basically anyone in the industry and whoever read that AICN thing might see that he's quite a positive and intelligent human being. Doing such an exaggeration for effect demands a lot of schooling and/or experience. Even the most experienced composers, directors or actors have been guilty of such things going somehow awry sometimes.

I agree that it was downright stupid of him to say such a thing and I used to know a person who lost respect to Debney after reading this (though, ironically, he gained respect for religion after seeing the film, even if he wasn't converted). I can pretty well understand that. But I just wouldn't judge John Debney as a human being just because he said something stupid in an interview.

Except the resurrection bit, from what I know, the film is actually well-seen by historians with the only major criticism being thrown at the depicted violence, saying that it was way exaggerated for effect. But except the exclusively Biblical elements (the elements of the Gospels, like the denial of Jesus by Peter and so on), as far as I understand it's a fairly accurate depiction of a Roman crucifixion.

I actually read a medical paper about the Passion (the event, not the movie) and the authors were surprised by how accurate were Luke's (he was a doctor, remember) observations. Christ bleeding from his armpits in Gethsemane? Yes, this can happen under big duress (though Luke and the rest Christianity obviously regarded it as a sort of miracle). Flagellation? A typical pre-crucifixion procedure to weaken the body. Punches, the "crowning"? All made Jesus weaker due to blood loss, and so on.

Oh sorry, Jesus speaking Latin was also criticized by historians, but these were the only major quibbles.

I don't. That's why I said 'apparently'. But assuming he did say it, I think it's also safe to assume he meant it, given his beliefs.



I think this goes a little bit beyond PR, if what was written is what was said. In his position, I would probably say I felt "inspired by the good Lord", not some crazy malarkey about the Devil getting in his way (you would think the Devil would think of better things to do than to cause mischieve at scoring sessions).

And Game Of Thrones is a pretty good depiction of life under monarchy rule! Historians must love that show too.

Some historians actually praise the books

On that note, I read a brilliant interview with him the other day when he was directly asked about the classical lifts and talked very openly about it. I hadn't read it before (and thought all interviewers had shied away from asking him).

I'd love to read that.

NP: PACIFIC RIM - Ramin Djawadi



This is pretty enjoyable, I like it! Much better than the noise-fest you would normally come to expect from a film of this type.

...there's a few riffs here and there that are definitely a homage to Akira Ifukube.