[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

I'm really looking forward to this too.

Anyone noticed that the 160BPM track from Angels & Demons is an evolution of the Chase theme from The Peacemaker? I was completely blown away by this epiphany.

Yeah, similar progression of notes and rhythms, but more "complex" and, similar to his theme suites on POTC:AWE, very well developed. I love its usage in the movie and how it moves the action along so efficiently.

Also similar to Watergate in Frost/Nixon.

Watergate is more minimalistic.

Watergate is more like The Ring, IMO, but without the dark dread.

Interesting. I assume the article isn't actually completely correct, in that surely that isn't Zimmer's process for ALL his scores. (I can see it on the POTC scores but not, say, Frost/Nixon.)

Frost/Nixon has more "centrepieces" as they call it, I think. Zimmer is actually credited as the co-orchestrator in the film's credits.

Agree. I think we all know Zimmer's process of compositon change from project to project. He can be so lazy to only compose one theme and then he can arrange and perform almost the whole tracks of one album

Dead Man's Chest is obviously a great example of Zimmer composing "suites" and then leaving to other composers adapt the music into the movie are sub-themes. But Frost/Nixon, Matchstik men or the last Samurai are more scores where Zimmer writtes, arranges and even perform himself (yes, always with some little help)

A good example of all this are "The Da Vinci Code" and "angels and Demons". While in the first Zimmer composed suites and his additional composers adapted it into the movie, "Angels and Demons" seems more Zimmer performing with synthetiser and playing with sampled chorus while he was watching the movie.

then we have scores performeds by Zimmer (Beyond Rangoon, Spirit ), Jam Sessions (Black hawk Down, The Holiday), more traditionals in process (The Thin Red line, the prince of egypt, as good as it gets ), where he only composes one theme or two (The Rock, M:I2 ) , where he only gives ideas (the pledge) , Remote Control parties (The Simpsons, Madagascar), Disasters (Pearl harbor, Road to El dorado) or half and half (tears of the sun, when the additional composers did 1 or 2 minutes cues, and then he composed and arranged long cues)

Pearl harbor is a disaster? No way.

I love it; the themes are unoriginal but very effective and memorable. It's very influenced by his work on Gladiator at the time, as other works that he released around that time-spot too, but i think all the bash it's getting it's too much. THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is much crappier for instance.

I agree. I love Pearl Harbor (no matter who composed this, who arranged that and who orchestrated the other one). If something, a RC party. But a great one.

Who cares....it was in the bootleg....some years later, as well as the complete 9 minutes "War" cue.

PEARL HARBOUR is one of the most clichéed, overblown, saccharine, bloated pieces of music I've ever heard from Zimmer's pen. At least in the movie. I'm not sure how it holds up on CD.