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Tosh. So are you telling me that if you hear a piece of John Williams' music you're unfamiliar with you won't recognise it as John Williams. I think he has a very distinctive style. As for rewriting existing pieces of music; Williams is one of the best composers of a melody there is and you're doing him a huge injustice with your claims.
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Jaws bears no resemblance to Dvorak 9 at all.
Even though the music for the sand people had Stravinsky Rite as a substitute (By Lucas), it's total coincidence that Williams music is almost the same.
Strange how Dvorak 9 (scherzo) has the same Motif as Duel of the Fates.
Weird how the first 5 notes of Mussorgsky's Pictures appears as the first 5 notes of a SW track.
Has no resemblance of Prokofiev at all either.
Ooh, I just checked wiki:
Star Wars music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
they say the same.
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The fact remains that film music may be a different medium to concert music, but to me it is clearly an inferior one, and one that gives a lot less intellectual satisfaction to the listener
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Williams music... is actually quite complex....
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A Shostokovich Symphony would make a shite film score.
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Depends on the movie..... it wouldn't suite a Disney film, but there are some it would.
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Film music is music made to the dictates of the mass-markets and can be said to have crowd-pleasing as a requirement.
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How dare music be memorable and pleasing. And no. The mass market prefers pop music - not classical.
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Furthermore, it takes just as much skill to compose a very good film score as it does to compose a very good symphony and it could be argued just as easily that only 5% of symphonies ever composed are genuinly original with many based on old styles, tried and tested techniques, understood orchestrations etc. (see, I can pick numbers out of the air as well, fun isn't it?!)
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5% is a little too little but, I agree. There are countless symphonies we will never know.