I love Thomas Newman earliest scores, like The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty and The Road to Perdition, but he is not
an action film composer.
Not exact matches
Thomas Newman is one of the leading
film composers of his generation, but it was hard to imagine how Skyfall would turn out —
action thrillers are not things that figure remotely prominently in his filmography.
Journalist Mark R. Hasan (KQEK.com) interviews esteemed horror
composer Marco Betrami regarding his latest work, World War Z (2013), scoring
action films, collaborator Buck Sanders, and former mentor Jerry Goldsmith.
Dated even as it arrived by Bosworth's feathered two - tone mullet and
composer Sylvester Levay's scorching soft - metal guitar, Stone Cold tries to bed down among superior
action films by cribbing the end of Die Hard wholesale.
One of the key contributors is
composer Marco Beltrami, whose career lately seems to have veered between idiotic
action films and serious adult dramas.
Joining Ottman on the score is rising
action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an
action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of
film noir moodiness.
Now after an even longer musical history of handling
action films and trailer soundtracks form «Full Contact» to «Dishonored 2,»
composer John R. Graham impressively carries on the saga's epic musical tradition with «Kingsglaive,» matching its astonishing mo - cap visuals with a score that captures both the characters» emotional stakes as well as the furiously drumming symphonic fury of its hellzapoppin mash - up of steampunk, sword and sorcery and giant monsters.
I don't think there are many younger
film composers who could write an
action score quite like Goldsmith on an OK day, to be honest.
Veteran sound designer Ben Burtt,
composer John Morgan,
film historian Rudy Behlmer, and directors Peter Jackson and Joe Dante, among others, describe the revolutionary ideas Steiner and Spivack employed in what remains a standard in blockbuster filmmaking for the
action / fantasy genre.
Executive Producer and
composer of the Silent Hill live
action film.
It follows every twist and turn of the
action on - screen and so can be a little schizophrenic, but the
composer manages to keep it impressively musical and it never seems quite so disjointed as most scores for this type of
film are.
Working as an assistant
composer on the
film, he complemented one of the
film's most climactic
action scenes by creating «The Chase on the Highway»; his electric guitar performance brought so much intensity and drama to the sequence.