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Well,here is the thread to go back and search for funny one liners,Mornisms and clever stuff we have posted here!

K.M.

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Well,you have 56 pages of thread to look in for material

K.M.

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"John Williams has a driver, but the driver gets exact notes by Williams where to turn, how fast to drive etc. It's 10-lane sketches at least, with every slightest turn marked and other notes on steering details. The driver is really nothing more than an executor. If Williams were to drive himself, he'd drive the car exactly the same way his driver does for him."

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"Lier!" (Morn)

"Too self-consciously iconoclastic" (Figo, referring to Morn)

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A more recent one:

The purpose of a film score is not to overpower the visuals and the dialogue of the film. A film score is the backbone. Depending on the context of the visuals and dialogue, certain sections of film scores may at times incorporate a certain amount of repetition to maintain a rhythm.  

It's odd that at once you chastise Vangelis, who is a master of synthesis, improvisation and innovation, and yet suggest Williams who is known for repetition.  

As I mentioned in another post, Williams is a plagiarist. In several scores, he repeats entire phrases and sections of Gustav Holst's seminal work, The Planets Suite. Williams gets paid a million dollars per score, and yet, in the tradition of other plagiarists like James Horner, he simply lifts note after note directly from other scores... occasionally transposing a few to obfuscate the plagiarism to only the least attentive of listeners (a similar tactic used by Vanilla Ice comes to mind).  

Not only does Williams repeat others, but he also repeats himself. Entire sections of the scores for the Indiana Jones films are regurgitations of phrasings, melodies and arrangements from the Star Wars scores. Why not just send in a copy of the same score to every filmmaker who hires you, and call it a day?  

Williams has a very recognizable pattern that emanates from the 5/4 strings and horns rhythm of Holst's Planets... except he pumps the instruments to death until there's no dynamic expression, no subtlety, and what you have is a monotonous G-chord rhythm that is mistakenly emphasized as the lead, and not the suble thematic structure that Holst had the sense to linger somewhere in the background... This nonsense can be recognized a mile away as Williams' signature bullshit.... and he reuses this technique in every fucking score he composes!  

Vangelis understands the importance of establishing rhythm with minor variation during scenes that require it... but across his work you find a vast range of musical styles, phrases, arrangements. Williams is precisely the opposite... he uses a gargantuan bombast that seems to suggest the film was constructed merely as a visual to accompany his music, and yet he repeats himself from one film to the next... using the same cues that are all derived from composers far more imaginative and original than him.

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"John Williams has a driver, but the driver gets exact notes by Williams where to turn, how fast to drive etc. It's 10-lane sketches at least, with every slightest turn marked and other notes on steering details. The driver is really nothing more than an executor. If Williams were to drive himself, he'd drive the car exactly the same way his driver does for him."

I only recently noticed your sig, but didn't want to take that thread off-topic.

Marian - flattered. :oops:

;) The Great Train Robbery - Deluxe Edition (Jerry Goldsmith)

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That Vangelis rant is a riot. Who spouted that crap?

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It was a quote from another board. As I recall, it was suggested to take over the entire post, and replace all of the Vangelis with Williams, and all the Williams with either Zimmer or Horner. Or Vangelis.

- Marc, who thinks this thread is a nice idea, but doesn't feel like looking for any great quotes - and never remembers them anyway.

<---- Hey, lookie. 2500 posts. Yay. ;)

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Eh come on you guys; there's 106 pages full of King Mark quotes.

K.M.

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:pukeface: STOP... DOING... THAT!!!

Hard enough trying to get to sleep these days... ;)

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Nice pic Neil.

there has got to me more funny quotes that this!

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Here's one:

To compare E.T. with Schindler's List is the same as comparing Dumbo with The Elephant Man. :mrgreen:
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Well we have had some good quotes, some absolute pearlers over the years, but I'll be damned if I can remember them off the top of my head or be bothered to trawl back through the archives to find any. My gratitude and respect goes out to those of you willing to do so though, for all of our sakes! :wave:

CYPHER

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"I'll probably have to start posting like wildfire, so that Harry Potter won't be able to beat me....oh wait, i don't care..." - Stefancos

"Ah, there you are, Harry. What a relief. I was beginning to fear for your "prolificity" as I noticed Stefan's ongoing pursuit to undermine your status in our posting community." - Director

"Finally Alan can feel himself at home again" - Stefancos

"AOTC is a good film, IMO, great even compared to that dreck called The Phantom Menace." - Stefancos

Every post in this thread is hillarious.

http://www.jwfan.net/index.php?name=PNphpB...c&p=99768#99768

Justin :wave:

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That thread isn't funny at all

If you will read this, then you'll know that thread sucks!!!

:wave:

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Here's one:

 

To compare E.T. with Schindler's List is the same as comparing Dumbo with The Elephant Man. :wave:

Hey, wasn't that something I said? Well, at least I managed to have said one memorable thing.

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TJ - Looking his previsious post...

;):eek: LOL :P:P:wave: :cool:

I love to write hidden things...

;)

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I so developed writting hidden text. Copyright, JTR Industries -- 2004

Justin

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Neil, who's that in the photo? Isn't that Steef's house?

So, don't I deserve an answer?!? :roll: :P

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Isn't that Steef's house?

More importantly, aren't those Steef's hands?

Neil

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Ok...I remember your house, Steef, since that photo with the "scary" eyes you posted some time ago.

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no...I was just curious, but hey don't be offended! [stupid asshole!]

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We may, we might, we must, we will.

Justin

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I wonder if years from now in another favorite JWFan MB quotes someone will be quoting this conversation....

Justin - who doubts it

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