YES ! It's the first time I see a post about John Williams, I think he's brilliant, and I totally agree with this !!!

Very interesting video by the way !

I have a lot of things to say about the music (you can almost hear the big block of writing coming this way^^):

I think every Harry Potter movie has a great soundtrack (I also really like the soundtrack of the second movie) but, to me, The three first (the ones John Williams composed) are really the best ! And particularly the third one .

When I was about twelve, all my classmates had their favorite songs, favorite band, etc, and they found me so strange because I didn't really listen to music. But the only "songs" I really liked were movie soundtracks, and I could listen to the Harry Potter ones again and again and again.

Now, I've learned to appreciate some songs and bands as well (Franz Ferdinand !^^) but I stll love movie soundtracks.

And I think the way John Williams composed the music for Prisoner of Azkaban is particularly clever (it's explained in the video). Two years ago, I went to a concert where they broadcast the Prisoner of Azkaban, with an orchestra that played the whole soundtrack. I swear I felt shivers when the dementors entered the train (and that sort of thing happens very, very rarely to me, I'm not really one to shiver just when I hear a music ^^), and when they played Buckbeak's Flight... I don't even have words to describe it properly !

I also loved the end credits (I never skip them when I watch the movie, I think they're awesome !), and I really like the way it sounds at around 2:16 minutes of Mischief Managed (I think it's the right time, you can hear it on Youtube): again, I don't really have the words, but there's a kind of "rolling" sound (I really don't have any musical vocabulary XD) that I love !

Anyway, after the concert I bought a book that talked about John Williams' soundtrack for this movie, and that's when I realized how intelligently the soundtrack was thought: I read about the soundtrack that's playing during the Knight Bus scene, and (I never noticed before) about how Williams used an accordion when the Bus squeezes "accordion-like" between two other buses.

Now I see (partly thanks to the video) that it's not the only interesting thing about the soundtrack, but it really impressed me when I noticed that.

I think that's all I had to say about it !

I'm so glad I came across this post ^^

I agree with every point you made. John Williams has always been an inspiring force for me, and even today; this is how my all time favourite playlist looks like:

Jurassic Park (my favorite composition ever, you probably guessed it from my username. Literally. This movie and this soundtrack changed my life.

Star wars

Imperial March

Indiana Jones

Hedwig's theme

Buckbeak's flight

Double trouble

Jaws

Duel of the fates, battle of the heroes, rebel fanfare

ET

Practically every good Spielberg movie

In Jurassic park, (perhaps it's just nostalgia) whenever I watch it the gazillionth time, shivers start to go down my spine when Richard Attenborough says "Welcome to Jurassic park" and tears start streaming down my eyes when that helicopter glides down into the sunset with John Williams' brilliant flowing score and the final title card appears.

@Asmitthe Jurassic park geek Brilliant, I'll check this post out !

I agree with your list! (Except I would have put the Harry Potter soundtracks first ^^)

I understand your nostalgia :) Unfortunately, I've never seen Jurassic Park (I know, shame on me ! But it's on my list) But I feel the same when I watch the "Buckbeak scene" or the end of the second Harry Potter.

I also really like John Williams' work on Hook (another brilliant work of Spielberg in my opinion). It's funny, but now I can tell when a soundtrack has been composed by him, a little like you recognize the voice of a singer in two different songs, there's something particular about his soundtracks, you just know it's him. I first realized that when I watched Hook again a while ago actually, when Tinkerbell arrives to Wendy's house to take Peter to Neverland, it struck me how the soundtrack sounded like Harry Potter.

Now I know that, usually, there are some similarities between the soundtracks of the same composer: for instance, Danny Elfman's Alice's Theme and the Main Theme from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory sound really alike, and so do some of the tracks of Nanny McPhee and the ones of the Goblet of Fire (by Patrick Doyle). But usually I notice those similarities once I know who composed the music, except for John Williams, where it's the other way around :-)

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