--- In thealexnorthfanclub@yahoogroups.com, RIP <rip72001@y...> wrote:
>
> Charlie! You son of a gun! Glad we made contact. Wish I had thought about
ANFC
sooner. Lost contact with you completely. Marion had an automobile accident
just before
Christmas last year and it was touch and go for awhile for several months.
Happy to say
all is well with her now. Can't tell it ever happened. How are you, wife and
kids?
>
> Yes! This year has not been kind to our favorite film composers. Bernstein,
Goldsmith.
Those guys, like North, were legends and knew how to compose music better than
some
of the films they were commisioned to score. There are very few now in Hollywood
that
can replace the talent it has lost over the years. Besides North, Bernstein,
and Goldsmith,
there was Steiner, Korngold, Waxman, Kaper, Friedholfer, Tiomkin, and Rosza.
These guys
were giants in there trade. Today, I hear more and more electronic "plastic"
scoring from
our younger talents out there. I do not believe the lack of hearing potential
talent is
lacking so much from these younger film composers as I suspect they are limited
in funds
provided by their cheap minded producers and directors to actually score a film
with real
warmth and feeling the way it use to be done and should be done. John Williams
is the
only one I know of today that can still use a full orchestra for scoring. And,
look at the
movies pumped out
> of Hollywood today. No substance, bland scripts, and same mo' same mo'
plots. They
all seem to blend together and soon forgotten. I know, I know, I'm over the
hill and
indeed old fashion, but gee I wish we could hear bright eyed film composers
using full
orchestra's they way it used to be. Might make the films better too.



Although you are largely correct on modern film composers. You should check out
flight
of the phoenix by Marco Beltrami. It's one of the most original and well
composed scores
I've heard in a while. Here's a sample http://mfile.akamai.com/3171/wm2/
muze.download.akamai.com/2890/us/uswm2/393/540393_1_01.asx?obj=v50310
Also I think Elliot Goldenthal is one of the better younger composers around
today.
However I think Michael Giacchino shows the most promise, have you heard his
score for
the call of duty game and lost tv series?