The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard

Thomas wrote
From the latest interview at Scorenotes.com :

Thomas wrote
The Dark Knight LIVE Score Performance Zimmer & Howard 7.14.08

-> http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXVimLtODks

Timmer wrote
Listened to Jonathan Ross on radio the other day and he was less than impressed with the movie.

Christodoulides wrote
The live performance reminded me of 15 year-old rock bands. The worrying thought is that the sound of the video - IF IT'S the actual live sound and not overdub from the actual score i can't really tell on crappy youtube video quality and crappy laptop speakers i am currently at, sounds identical to the score itself which is supposedly performed by an actual orchestra

Where does any of thematic material for Batman fit in here?

HZ Obviously The Batman Theme from the last movie, well the world corroded a little around him and things didn’t work out quite as well as he thought they were going to work, so even the Batman music has a little less straight heroic quality. The notes shift slightly.

JNH It’s interesting when you refer to the music for Batman, it’s like we’re talking about the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room, The Batman Theme or lack thereof.

HZ I had a plan on Batman Begins which was very simple; I wanted a completely iconic Batman statement. To do something iconic you have to keep it very short and very succinct and its two notes, really two notes and an ostinato (motif or phrase which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice). It’s what we call the ‘bat flaps,’ that sound. After the movie came out people where saying, ‘Where’s the big Batman Theme?’ meaning, ‘Where’s something like that Danny Elfman tune?’ I actually had a go at writing one of those, the big superhero tune, but very quickly I stopped myself because the one thing I didn’t want to do was ‘superhero’ because what I think makes Batman interesting is that he’s the human who is hiding behind the mask and lives by a certain vaguely old fashioned philosophy. I keep saying to people who expect me to do the happy singing and dancing heroic superhero type tune, ‘Start breathing again, stop holding your breath, it aint going to happen.’ It’s not going to happen in this one, it’s not going to happen in the next one because once Chris had finished writing and I saw where he was going with this movie and once we had finished talking about where we were going with this movie, we came to the conclusion that this is a singular world that we had to score which had noting to do with the previous movies. Yes, are the two notes there in The Dark Knight? Absolutely!

JNH But even more than the two notes, all these insularly ostinatos, some of the sounds, the voicing, some of the percussion, even though its all been redone, re-performed, reconceived in a lot of ways, it’s incumbent upon us, I feel to give the audience and to fulfill an expectation and emotions of that great thing when you hear the ‘bat flaps,’ when you hear the two notes; it’s thrilling because you’ve been there before. It’s the sequel to a big movie, its fun.

Christodoulides wrote


Anyone got a new link of that video btw? It's been removed..anyone saved it?

Christodoulides wrote


It's for other reasons