He has no competition, several steps ahead of the second best composer.
right place right time. sure he's good but most people like him would have gotten the same esteem if he hadn't been there
>>220588038Japanese composers.
>>220588090Ken-sama...
>>220588038Hans Zimmer mogs him hard
>>220588038Agreed. Across the Stars is still his best work imohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wMiMDBHnJ0
>>220588068You have many composers for big movies, but they just do "the soundtrack of X". No one is as consistent as JW to make "X's song".>>220588139For example, everyone loves Interstellar soundtrack, but that's just... Interstellar soundtrack. Zigger doesn't have an "Indiana Jones' song" or "Star Wars song". It's not about how good the soundtrack is to hear on a vacuum, but how iconic is.
Ever heard of Moatzart?
>>220588038He's a hackhttps://youtu.be/pnqH-atn52c
>>220588038boomers and their "culture" are revolting
>>220588229>Video only available on youtubeoh borther
>>220588139>BWAAAAAAAAANNNNGGGGGGHHHHH!
>>220588139repetitive slop for retards to feel like they have taste
>>220588038I love the ways he always incorporates motifs for every important character, so you always know what's happening based on his music alone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td5WVOy_Eqs
>>220588197>For example, everyone loves Interstellar soundtrack, but that's just... Interstellar soundtrack. Zigger doesn't have an "Indiana Jones' song" or "Star Wars song". It's not about how good the soundtrack is to hear on a vacuum, but how iconic is.Zimmbro aka Pirates theme, aka Batman theme, aka Game of Thrones theme(Ramin only wrote the other songs, the theme is Zimmer) Lion King, Inception. If anything, Zimmer suffers from being recognised for iconic themes that everyone hums and mumbles all the time, while he is forgotten for the underlying background songs in movies. John Williams is amazing but he has the Hedwig theme, Indy and Star Wars. No one remembers him for the color purple or Schindler's list and that are basically all his good movies. Zimmer more or less even made the Nolan movies good, because let's be honest, they don't have much of a plot and are more of a canvas for his music.
He's the only living musician that will have their music played 500 years from now.
Bernard HerrmannJerry GoldsmithEnnio MorriconeThomas NewmanJohn BarryMax SteinerHoward ShoreJohn Williams has just more iconic stuff, but I think all those composers are just as good.
>>220589107>No one remembers him for the color purpleYeah that's because Quincy Jones composed that
>>220589158Hermann is so kino. He always had a very recognizable stylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U7EnMl_EcAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOQC63Jer4
>>220588038A retard who has never seen any movies would say that.Rozsa, Korngold, Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner absolutely mog him.
>>220589176Had to confirm people actually read my long post.
>>220589107John Williams has multiple recognizable songs from Star Wars (main theme, binary sunset, imperial march, duel of fates), plus Hedwig, plus Indy, plus Jaws, plus Jurassic Park, plus E.T., plus Home Alone, plus Superman, plus Close Encounters of the Third Kind
>>220588090>Japanese composers.Are notorious plagiarizers
Max Steiner >>>
>>220589464Jaws theme is literally 4 notes less than Interstellar. They are both their respective slop themes. Good, yes, but if you look at it, they aren't masterpieces or worthy of recognition for the work.
>>220589509https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZaSgnYLceQ
I'm not going to be a contrarian here. John Williams is the GOAT. Hans Zimmer has a ton of great stuff too. I'd like to to give Clint Mansell and honorable mention. Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain are two movies carried by the god tier music.
>>220589663He does a lot of heavy lifting for Sunshine also, I think.
>>220589663If you love Aronofsky style music and vibe you'll love Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas soundtrack
>>220589663If we're doing honorable mentions I think Giacchino deserves one as well. He did Up and Incredibles among many others. His best work is in video games though so it's up to anons if they want to give him credit as a /tv/ composer. I'm more so giving him credit as a composer in general. That MoH Frontline soundtrack is an all time, all time great.
>>220589158Not one is even close to Miklos Rozsa. /tv/ has surface level of film music awareness.
>>220589776His music for Werewolf at Night was good. It aas his passion project too.
>>220589464If "soundtrack fans" ever listened to classical music they would realize that 90 percent of Williams music is lifted from other composers and changed just enough to not be called a complete ripoff.
>>220588038John Williams>Alan Silvestri>Hans Zimmer (he did the fucking Critic theme)>James Horner>Howard Shore>Danny Elfman>Bear McCreary
Miklos Rozsa is the most important movie composer of all time and hacks like Williams and Zimmer will eternally live in his shadow copyimg his works. Especially Williams who tries to recreate Ben Hur for his entire life.
>>220589464The whole Star Wars soundtrack is just Korngold, Holst, Tchaikovskiy, Dvořák, Stravinsky and Chopin mixed together.
>>220588038Morricone wipes the floor with him.>>220588090Ifukube too.
>>220588766As if that couldn't be said of williams. almost half the music in the prequels and harry potter sound exactly the same
>>220588038Not only do a lot of his scores sound the same, like Leia's theme and Marian's theme, but sometimes you can tell exactly which classical tune he stole the song from. When Jar-Jar is swimming toward Gunga City it's the Aquarium song from the 1800's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpl-RNzdE4Darth Vader's theme is obviously the funeral song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZY5DBmgC_AAnd then there's this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf47W9rXzRM
>>220589978wrong, Williams has sovl.
>>220588038yeah probably true with that being said i think danny elfmann is god tier too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfs1rlw4tc
Herrmann takes it. North By Northwest, Vertigo, Marnie, Taxi Driver, Sisters cmon now.
>>220588139Zimmer's Batman theme is unironically trash and so is Nolan. So what else does Zimmer have?
>>220590116Dune? It's shit but at least it has the mass appeal.
>>220588038everyone knows home alone, jurassic park, jaws, star wars but his hook soundtrack is also amazing
no love for John Barry or Lalo Schiffrin... I'm disappointed/tv/
>>220589776Giacchino's good but Incredibles is just reheating John Barry nachos
>>220590144Just listened to it. That got old REAL quick! Just the same thing over and over again.
>>220590258https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huC_e9EkN8Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
>>220588038Goblin mog
Preisner is great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC56gB9la2Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_AkxfQr-whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_zFvYPina8
>>220590197I mentioned it more because it was something most people would be familiar with. As I said, his video game stuff is where he really shows off his own style.
Kilar was too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3lzdQ4q7chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdDQ0GPcNo
>>220588038Bear Mcreary and Trent Reznor shit on this boomer.
>>220588090I like Toru Takemitsu a lot
>>220590144mogged by TOTOhttps://youtu.be/Pm5VP3of-dA?si=xGEAnPA5jMxjZPyC
>>220588038I would argue that Morricone and Williams are BOTH in a league of their own. But Williams is superior
>>220588151Idk why but I love the asymmetry of the lightsabre parallel to the border of the poster
>>220588038Chu ishikawa, though more on the industrial sidehttps://youtu.be/4z10AlFDQfY
The single best thing that John Williams ever did was the final suite for E.T. I can understand not liking the ugly alien meme puppet, but everything else about the movie is so good that it's sad that /tv/ and other younger people don't seem to care for it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7CyzH6R7f4
>>220590544Nah, brother.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrPimwVXEAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NENJADSqyYghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZLj83Fwnghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgNFg0c6MhIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZw6rUdb68
>>220588090Akira Ifukube is the king.
Danny Elfman mogs him hard
*blocks your path*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
>>220588038Hisaishi and Zimmer are obvious competition contemporarily but his overall career is tough to surmount. Ennio morricone has some heavy hitters in terms of purely iconic, instantly recognizable songs that rival Star Wars. >>220588766>>220590116Zimmer’s work on gladiator, the last samurai, even lion king is absolutely fantastic. Im not the biggest Nolan guy but his scores for those films are pretty great too.
>>220591100Given this is /tv/ I assume OP meant film score composition. Of course Williams Star Wars scores owe everything to holst even if he doesn’t like to admit it.
>>220591100YE GODS, my film score is RUINED! But WHAT if... I were to disguise the work of GUSTAV HOLST, and pass it off as my OWN-D'HO-HO-HO, DELIGHTFULLY DEVILISH, WILLIAMS!
Here we are, Director Lucas! "Star Wars"!
-Hm, yes. You know John, this first piece is quite similar to the opening movement of Holst's "Planets".-D'HO-HO-HO, NO, patented Williams-opuses! Old family modalities! Signature Williams leitmotif, MM-MM, it's GOOD!
>>220588038The Patriot is his most underrated score imohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRdKX0fzjLM&
>>220592198Why are american composers so eager to make ugly alterations to major scales?
>>220589787I love his score for Golden Voyage of Sinbad https://youtu.be/C9eJnX0nOpM?si=roRfrvfq-dDx6lJO
