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Checkmate: Movie soundtrack edition.
Every amazing movie needs an amazing soundtrack. While Josh Waitzkin was left searching for Bobby Fischer (in the literal sense), director Steven Zaillian found the emotionally evocative James Horner to score his cinematic masterpiece from 1993 based on the true story of a young chess prodigy told from the perspective of a “chess parent.”
Randomly finding this movie playing last night was (and always is) an inspiring couple of hours everyone should experience.
That instrumental is fantastic…like a pawn-takes-pawn move that sets the stage for a cleverly disguised 12-move checkmate.
Have an Awesome Week!
P.S. Those fish won’t catch themselves.
Happy Monday!
One more…song?
The 2015 Steve Jobs movie, featuring Michael Fassbender (who actually didn’t look like the title character) is the latest cinematic treatment of the Apple co-founder who changed the way we perceive and anticipate technology.
In fact, this movie is almost ready to earn a permanent spot on our movie shelf (February 16th, to be exact).
After watching the past few movies about Mr. Jobs, the preeminent film still hasn’t arrived and, quite possibly, may never arrive at a theater near you. Fully capturing this tech icon’s life and career into a script as innovative and compelling as his products has proven an allusive task.
But what about a song?
The Maccabees did not write “Grew Up at Midnight” for Steve Jobs, but composer Daniel Pemberton (2015’s Steve Jobs movie) recognized how this song with a smashing crescendo paints the scene of a grand legacy coming into focus. And it was all sparked from an imaginatively ambitious youth.
The song was a perfect fit for the film.
This song is also a perfect fit for those who recognize the value in biting into an apple at midnight.
Have an Insanely Great Week!
Virtual Reality’s Crescendo to Reality
Hollywood composer Michael Giacchino was lost, but then found in the coolest way imaginable.
As the countdown towards the theatrical premiere of Jurassic World continues this week (only two more days!), today’s blog post features the composer tasked with the surreal job of following the brilliant John Williams and his iconic Jurassic Park score. Giacchino composed the soundtrack to Jurassic World (as well as Tomorrowland) and the random assignment that ultimately led him to the red carpet last night is the exact right amount of crazy awesomeness.
His story is almost as cool as a velociraptor…almost.
Orchestrating Dinosaurs
Equally as famous as Steven Spielberg for Jurassic Park is its composer John Williams. As Jurassic World builds with anticipation for its summer release date of June 12th, viewers of the trailers have already noticed a similar piano rendition of the Jurassic Park theme song (breathtakingly good!). However, Michael Giacchino will score the new soundtrack for this park/movie. And just like any great movie, music is (and needs to be) its own character in the storytelling process.
John Williams explains:
He always hits the right notes with movies and music.
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