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Originally Posted by rob1984
Are you still living in the 20s or something? Why are film composers not "proper" composers?
And how is Lord of the Rings like Sibelius? It all sounds very Celtic and melodic to me. If anything, I think those film scores would have been better if they were more Sibelian! |
So many of the atmospheres and soundworlds evoked in Lord of the Rings sound to me like Sibelius. If you want a specific example, listen to the coda of the 1st movement of the 3rd symphony (particularly at the start of it), then tell me that Lord of the Rings isn't Sibelius. While there are other influences, LOTR music still sounds like regurgitated Sibelius to me (though admittedly this may be because Sibelius is personally my favourite composer and as a New Zealander I have been exposed to those films a huge amount).
In general though, film composers to me very rarely produce anything original, new or revolutionary. When I listen to a new composition in the concert hall I hear it as an original composition. When I listen to a film score I only think of the pieces it sounds awfully similar to. This may just be because copyright requires film composers to have an original sound for each score (meaning they steal other people's sounds), but it still really annoys me when film composers get huge credit for regurgitating someone else's work in a heavily edited way...
That is why I don't regard film scores as genuine compositions and why I see the need to nominate film composers as the world's worst reputable composers.