"That damn music follows me everywhere....It plays every time I walk on stage, walk off the stage. It worse than that. It was playing in operating room, when I went in for my colonoscopy" - Harrison Ford at AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute for John Williams
One of my favorite stories about Williams and Spielberg is that when he brought him in to do the score for Schindler’s list. John had to watch the completed film without music first to get an idea of the tone. When it was over, John was visibly shook, as just about everyone who saw the movie was, and he told Spielberg. “I’m not worthy of scoring this film. This calls for a composer who is far beyond my talents. And Spielberg looked at him and said “I agree, but they’re all dead”
Fun Fact: During filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia, nearly everyone in the cast and crew got sick except director Steven Spielberg. It is thought that he avoided illness by eating only the food he'd brought with him: a lot of cans of Spaghetti-O's.
The famous "Don't bring a sword to a gunfight" gag was actually the result of Harrison Ford contracting dysentery, beelining an actual swordfight in the original script
Kinda like how Ringo brought his own food to India when the Beatles went there to the Ashram in 1967. He was the only one who didn't lose 30 pounds from the food and water because he brought suitcases full of cans of baked beans lol
John Williams is an absolute legend! So many iconic scores, it’s incredible! I was a bit surprised that’s he’s 91 already, actually! Wishing him decades more of great health and productive work!
It's been argued that "Superman" was William's best composition but I believe "Raiders" was always the textbook example of how to underscore a movie. Romance, adventure, heroic, villainous, period appropriate, climate specific, mystical, military, creepy-crawly, it was all there. That score had everything and it was executed perfectly.
Don't forget Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Home Alone, Harry Potter, Hook, and so many others where he's created theme-heavy scores that significantly elevate the films that feature them. Dude's an absolute legend.
John Williams is the GOAT. The DNA runs through his family. I play in a band with his Grandson, it's a band called Vinyl Williams and its also just one of my favorite bands period
John Williams is my favourite film composer so thanks for highlighting his genius work. In my 9th grade band class I had a project where I dressed up as him and did an interview as him 😂
It’s really the only thing you can legitimately criticise Williams for - he periodically cannibalises his own work pretty heavily. But he’s a legend so he gets a pass
A lot of that just comes from instrumentation, structure, and other aspects of musical language that are traditionally associated with feminine/romantic leitmotifs in traditional orchestral soundtracks. That said, Princess Leia's theme is very interesting in that it comes across as traditionally feminine in structure, but has brass instruments taking center stage quite a bit over the more typical strings. It's a clever way to reinforce Leia's strength without just being lazy and just going for a "butch" theme.
The Map Room: Dawn is one of the best pieces of film music ever written, especially with the teasing of the Ark leitmotif throughout the start of the film.
My favorite light motif of the Divine Theme is in the Last Crusade when Indy goes into the tomb under Venice and the Ark is depicted, and you hear it play. Even though Indy wants to just find his father and leave, that theme plays warning us it will not go the way he thinks.
Huge fan of John Williams and Indy, I'm going to watch the new movie bc of his and bc it's going to be my first Indy movie at a theatre, his new Helena's Theme is so beautiful, amazing that he's in the age of 91 and still can compose beautiful works of music, lotta respect to him, I'm also glad to know that Steven Spielberg is producing a documentary of Johnnie's life, Imma be watching that too.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was my first Indy movie in the theater. Looking back, it wasn't worth it. lol Not after repeatedly watching the trilogy for well over a decade by then.
Gotta say, this video was an interesting change of pace that I wasn't expecting but certainly loved. Last Crusade was my favorite Indiana Jones film for awhile, but Raiders of the Lost Ark has slightly passed it by this point.
@@seankilburn7200 Really? I always thought The Last Crusade was better, but of course both of them are amazing. The ending was tear-jerking, the delicate balance between comedy and action was very entertaining, and of course the performance of Sean Connery was just incredible.
@@thenoobyblock1208 well they are both great films as you say and there’s not a big enough difference in quality for any ranking to hold much weight. I would definitely say that temple of doom is the weakest of the original three but it was still very enjoyable. You’re spot on with your points about the last crusade as well and I think the fact that I’ve seen that one the most over the years probably had an impact on which I most enjoyed.
@@seankilburn7200 Honestly, the only thing that keeps Temple of Doom from ranking higher for me is I find Willie pretty annoying. I don't even dislike Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that much, though I also haven't tried to see it in nearly 15 years, so that might speak volumes about that movie.
That first line is so true. In Phantom Menace, when Anakin is saying goodbye to his mom, It’s that heavy rendition of The Force theme playing as he walks away that brings it all together.
The Spokane Symphony did a similar concert last year in my area for Williams' 90th. They did two encores, one was the Imperial March, the other was a suite from Raiders. The main bill included Superman, E.T., Jurassic Park, Jaws, several other Star Wars pieces, Flight to Neverland from Hook, and some of the music he composed for the Olympics. Such an amazing show.
I like The Last Crusade even more than Raiders and it's in no small part to the slight difference in score, particularly the whimsical parts that often go along with his interactions with his dad.
The Ark Motif reminds me so much of the BF Bad Company 2 'The Secret Revealed' theme... I would guess that this would have possibly been an influence on the game
John Williams is the world's most absolutely brilliant genius composer ever in the history of the world........to anyone who has never heard of Anton Bruckner.
We may think about John Williams being a great composer in the same way as we do Beethoven, Bach, and such, but we should. The only difference is that Williams's music is set to moving pictures while composers in the past created their own scenery with the music. I think Williams the best at it still surpassing Zimmer or anybody else today. I can listen to the scores of the Indiana Jones movies and replay the entire movie in my head much the way those classic composers could do with just their music. Just imagine John Williams conducting this music in a 18th or 19th century symphony hall. It would have felt like rock and roll to the people of that era!
Williams has done non-film music in addition to soundtracks. He's composed a pile of concert works. You also might be interested to learn that the music you hear with every modern broadcast of the Olympic Games was composed by Williams back in the 1980s.
The Ark’s theme is a great way to establish presence and it also gives the Ark a sort of personality If there’s one thing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull did right it was giving the skull it’s own theme
I would love for you to observe Quadeca's music, especially his latest album "I Didn't Mean To Haunt You". Quadeca is a great artist and deserves more recognition from TH-camrs like you. The album has a lot of interesting lore and backstory that would be fitting for your type of content, while also shining some light on Quadeca's fantastic music as a whole.
I think personally ET is the most moving score he made, I can just hear my whole childhood innocence and wonder in it, Schindler’s List is absolutely a heartbreaking beautiful score too
I don't think I've ever read it confirmed anywhere, but the Ark leitmotif strongly resembles Richard Wagner's leitmotif in "Das Rheingold" for the Tarnhelm, another object of mystery and dreadful power. It's no secret that John Williams has drawn huge inspiration from Wagner's music and use of constantly developing and changing leitmotifs. I'm sure this is one of them.
You missed the leitmotif of Crystal Skull! It's 3 notes; low octave, tritone, high octave. Key of B is where I played it. It's the "Call of the Crystal" theme, which reoccurs throughout the film.
For the very first time in his astounding career, John blew it with end credit music for "Dial Of Destiny." It ends with a somber music cue, rather than a few a bars of Marion's theme with a triumphant segue into the Raiders March. That would have put a period on the series. But, as it is, you leave the theater with a "gloomy" mood that doesn't reflect the film's final scene. IMHO, the score, as it exists, just doesn't work with the ending of both this movie & the series. So, either John, or somebody in the music editing department, really misjudged how the end credit score would "play." The party I was with all agreed, that musically, this was a very, very rare instance of a Williams score missing the mark. Otherwise, the score was perfect.
Raiders should have won all the awards that year but the Academy preferred Chariots of Fire and the score crafted by Van Gelis. Which was indeed a great score, but it is not the movie and music in heavy rotation for essentially my entire life.
Not many ppl know this, but having the ark would've done nothing for the Nazis. When God decided the Hebrews should not engage in a battle, but they did anyways, they were not blessed with a victory. The ark itself wasn't what gave the Hebrews their power, but their obedience to the God that "resided" within it. This was probably just overlooked by Lucas and Spielberg, bc it's a rather unknown part of the story, even amongst christians and Jews.
Oh, when movies had heart & soul…Story and Music…now they attempt to manufacture inspiration and ingenuity to no avail. Life is very simple and yet we muck it up
Yeah. Unfortunately that's the biggest and best thing about Spielberg's movies, the John Williams soundtrack. Take that away and you have a great student film, but nothing truly earth-shattering. Hes not Alfred Hitchcock. Hes not Stanley Kubrick. Hes not even James Cameron. The man has no technical genius of his own. Hes just the most learned craftsman in Hollywood. That doesnt make him the best. That doesnt make him a pioneer.
Dude, that are not Leitmotifs, that are just couple of themes which suppose to underline the movie. The real master, apart of Wagner in the Leitmotif technique is Howard Shore who composed over 100 Leitmotifs for the Lord of the Rings, and in which every Leitmotifs never comes back the same, depending on the situation and gives narration to the movie - true mastery of a kind.
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What other film scores deserve a closer look? 🧐
The divine leitmotif reminds me a lot of the leitmotif of the matrix!
@@kaihayakawa2776 gonna give The Matrix another *listen*
Passion of the Christ!
Swiss Army Man
Interstellar, Dunkirk and 1917 are all brilliant
"That damn music follows me everywhere....It plays every time I walk on stage, walk off the stage. It worse than that. It was playing in operating room, when I went in for my colonoscopy"
- Harrison Ford at AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute for John Williams
He's SUCH a funny guy! 😂😂
That’s why they call it the raiders march.
He told the same joke this year... adding at the end.... "I passed!" 😂great joke!
One of my favorite stories about Williams and Spielberg is that when he brought him in to do the score for Schindler’s list. John had to watch the completed film without music first to get an idea of the tone. When it was over, John was visibly shook, as just about everyone who saw the movie was, and he told Spielberg. “I’m not worthy of scoring this film. This calls for a composer who is far beyond my talents. And Spielberg looked at him and said “I agree, but they’re all dead”
Spielberg was filming Schindler's List by day and editing Jurassic Park by night, so I s'pose John Williams was a bit busy that year.
@@emilybennett6567at his peak I doubt there was a year he wasn't busy
Spielbergs an asshole then. How dare he say something like that
Fun Fact: During filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia, nearly everyone in the cast and crew got sick except director Steven Spielberg. It is thought that he avoided illness by eating only the food he'd brought with him: a lot of cans of Spaghetti-O's.
omg i love this haha
The famous "Don't bring a sword to a gunfight" gag was actually the result of Harrison Ford contracting dysentery, beelining an actual swordfight in the original script
People were so sick and depressed and down that one of the working titles purposed for the movie was Blue Harvest
Kinda like how Ringo brought his own food to India when the Beatles went there to the Ashram in 1967. He was the only one who didn't lose 30 pounds from the food and water because he brought suitcases full of cans of baked beans lol
I have been lied to, that fact was not "fun"
John Williams is an absolute legend! So many iconic scores, it’s incredible! I was a bit surprised that’s he’s 91 already, actually! Wishing him decades more of great health and productive work!
Your positivity is great, but decades as in plural? that's quite absurd.
@@Kenxstudios Well, a man can believe :)
@@atomsofstardust In the not too distant future it’s very likely, unless we’re wiped out.. 🤖 ☢️
@@Kenxstudios If anyone deserves to live to 110 it's John Williams.
John Williams is the man.
It's been argued that "Superman" was William's best composition but I believe "Raiders" was always the textbook example of how to underscore a movie. Romance, adventure, heroic, villainous, period appropriate, climate specific, mystical, military, creepy-crawly, it was all there. That score had everything and it was executed perfectly.
Don't forget Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Home Alone, Harry Potter, Hook, and so many others where he's created theme-heavy scores that significantly elevate the films that feature them. Dude's an absolute legend.
John Williams is the GOAT. The DNA runs through his family. I play in a band with his Grandson, it's a band called Vinyl Williams and its also just one of my favorite bands period
This was a superb analysis of the impact of a great soundtrack, aligned with the greatest soundtrack composer in movie history. Wonderful!
John Williams is my favourite film composer so thanks for highlighting his genius work. In my 9th grade band class I had a project where I dressed up as him and did an interview as him 😂
John Williams was the soundtrack to our hopes and dreams.
Listening to this made me realize how similar Marion's and Leia's themes are
It’s really the only thing you can legitimately criticise Williams for - he periodically cannibalises his own work pretty heavily. But he’s a legend so he gets a pass
@@GregorBarclay "Pretty heavily" seems a bit strong. His self-plagiarism isn't anywhere near the level of, say, James Horner.
@@pieterboelen2862 You can be a significant bank robber without being Bonnie and Clyde.
@@GregorBarclay 😂😂
A lot of that just comes from instrumentation, structure, and other aspects of musical language that are traditionally associated with feminine/romantic leitmotifs in traditional orchestral soundtracks.
That said, Princess Leia's theme is very interesting in that it comes across as traditionally feminine in structure, but has brass instruments taking center stage quite a bit over the more typical strings. It's a clever way to reinforce Leia's strength without just being lazy and just going for a "butch" theme.
Lol I literally just finished rewatching Raiders of the lost Ark, still holds up to this day
The Map Room: Dawn is one of the best pieces of film music ever written, especially with the teasing of the Ark leitmotif throughout the start of the film.
That map room cue is one of the best film music cues of all time. Awesome stuff.
John Williams is a genius, period
My favorite light motif of the Divine Theme is in the Last Crusade when Indy goes into the tomb under Venice and the Ark is depicted, and you hear it play. Even though Indy wants to just find his father and leave, that theme plays warning us it will not go the way he thinks.
As a writer I’m thrilled to see John Truby pop up on your channel! Great video, thanks.
Huge fan of John Williams and Indy, I'm going to watch the new movie bc of his and bc it's going to be my first Indy movie at a theatre, his new Helena's Theme is so beautiful, amazing that he's in the age of 91 and still can compose beautiful works of music, lotta respect to him, I'm also glad to know that Steven Spielberg is producing a documentary of Johnnie's life, Imma be watching that too.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was my first Indy movie in the theater. Looking back, it wasn't worth it. lol Not after repeatedly watching the trilogy for well over a decade by then.
We want more soundtrack commentary!
Gotta say, this video was an interesting change of pace that I wasn't expecting but certainly loved. Last Crusade was my favorite Indiana Jones film for awhile, but Raiders of the Lost Ark has slightly passed it by this point.
The last crusade was always my favourite growing up but having rewatched them all recently I’m inclined to agree with you.
@@seankilburn7200 Really? I always thought The Last Crusade was better, but of course both of them are amazing. The ending was tear-jerking, the delicate balance between comedy and action was very entertaining, and of course the performance of Sean Connery was just incredible.
@@thenoobyblock1208 well they are both great films as you say and there’s not a big enough difference in quality for any ranking to hold much weight. I would definitely say that temple of doom is the weakest of the original three but it was still very enjoyable.
You’re spot on with your points about the last crusade as well and I think the fact that I’ve seen that one the most over the years probably had an impact on which I most enjoyed.
@@seankilburn7200 Honestly, the only thing that keeps Temple of Doom from ranking higher for me is I find Willie pretty annoying. I don't even dislike Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that much, though I also haven't tried to see it in nearly 15 years, so that might speak volumes about that movie.
Awesome video; the Divine theme has always been my favorite leitmotif from this movie!
That first line is so true.
In Phantom Menace, when Anakin is saying goodbye to his mom,
It’s that heavy rendition of The Force theme playing as he walks away that brings it all together.
love to see something new from you! great job
Great Video! It reminds me how much I miss Every Frame a Painting though.
You and me both!
Fun detail is that Crystal Skulls theme is basically a reveresed version of ark theme, instead going down in notes it goes up.
More John Williams videos please ! ❤
Oh I love this channel...
Please protect John Williams at all cost! Great video by the way
Fantastic analysis, thank you!
I actually went to Mr Williams 90th bday celebration last year at Tanglewood. They saved Raiders March for John to conduct at the end of show.
The Spokane Symphony did a similar concert last year in my area for Williams' 90th. They did two encores, one was the Imperial March, the other was a suite from Raiders. The main bill included Superman, E.T., Jurassic Park, Jaws, several other Star Wars pieces, Flight to Neverland from Hook, and some of the music he composed for the Olympics. Such an amazing show.
Awh man, this video is reminding me just how much I love the score for these films
Absolutely fantastic job. Hi Johnny ❤❤❤❤ The reason why raiders worked so good is George, Steve, John and Jim Steranko 😂
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Middle 8 video about film score?? Couldn’t ask for more
Does editing a comment remove the heart? 😂 that’s weird asf
@@kwuartzseems so! Hearted again 😉
@@Middle8 Thank you hahaha! Strange addition to TH-cam 😂 love the content, keep it up 😄😄🥳
He also composed music for Gidget Goes to Rome(1963) and Black Sunday(1977).
Only ogs remember the original thumbnail
I like The Last Crusade even more than Raiders and it's in no small part to the slight difference in score, particularly the whimsical parts that often go along with his interactions with his dad.
The Ark Motif reminds me so much of the BF Bad Company 2 'The Secret Revealed' theme... I would guess that this would have possibly been an influence on the game
John Williams is the world's most absolutely brilliant genius composer ever in the history of the world........to anyone who has never heard of Anton Bruckner.
Masterpiece
We may think about John Williams being a great composer in the same way as we do Beethoven, Bach, and such, but we should. The only difference is that Williams's music is set to moving pictures while composers in the past created their own scenery with the music. I think Williams the best at it still surpassing Zimmer or anybody else today. I can listen to the scores of the Indiana Jones movies and replay the entire movie in my head much the way those classic composers could do with just their music. Just imagine John Williams conducting this music in a 18th or 19th century symphony hall. It would have felt like rock and roll to the people of that era!
Williams has done non-film music in addition to soundtracks. He's composed a pile of concert works. You also might be interested to learn that the music you hear with every modern broadcast of the Olympic Games was composed by Williams back in the 1980s.
Ennio Morricone score for "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was terrific, fit the film great, a real masterpiece. That's my favorite.
Great vid!
The Ark’s theme is a great way to establish presence and it also gives the Ark a sort of personality
If there’s one thing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull did right it was giving the skull it’s own theme
That's my favorite theme from Indiana Jones
That there gives me goosebumps every time
Best composer of all time!
I think it was this motif which made me a composer
Give this man 100 more years
I would love for you to observe Quadeca's music, especially his latest album "I Didn't Mean To Haunt You". Quadeca is a great artist and deserves more recognition from TH-camrs like you. The album has a lot of interesting lore and backstory that would be fitting for your type of content, while also shining some light on Quadeca's fantastic music as a whole.
All of these movies wouldn't be this good if it weren't for the maestro John Williams.
Michael Nyman’s score for Gattaca is the best score of all time. I will die on that hill
I think personally ET is the most moving score he made, I can just hear my whole childhood innocence and wonder in it, Schindler’s List is absolutely a heartbreaking beautiful score too
What a great analyse.
I actually think that Temple of Dooms score is the bigger genius of the Indy movies.
His score in Indiana Jones 5 is also unsurprisingly great.
I don't think I've ever read it confirmed anywhere, but the Ark leitmotif strongly resembles Richard Wagner's leitmotif in "Das Rheingold" for the Tarnhelm, another object of mystery and dreadful power. It's no secret that John Williams has drawn huge inspiration from Wagner's music and use of constantly developing and changing leitmotifs. I'm sure this is one of them.
Superb video presentation
The perfect musician doesn’t exi-
A divine leitmotif, or a _divine light_ motif?
dude! the greatest conposer and the best youtuber on discussions of music...thumbs up seconds in
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It goes without saying that the score to Indiana Jones is one of the best in all of cinema.
My Childhood and Teenage Day's - Years. 😊👍👌😊🍁
The theme also plays in The last crusade when rhey enter rhe catacombs under the library.
You missed the leitmotif of Crystal Skull! It's 3 notes; low octave, tritone, high octave. Key of B is where I played it. It's the "Call of the Crystal" theme, which reoccurs throughout the film.
my respects for Johnny!!
6:08 Plot hole for Temple being a prequel
Excellent video
4:08 didnt know borat was part of this...
Middle 8 more like middle really good
"Top men" 9:51
This Divine Theme makes a brief appearance in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the warehouse chase scene.
*VIDEO SUGGESTION:* "Plastic Love" and the resurrection of city pop...
Fun fact: there’s a WKUK skit on this composer and it’s hilarious
Even better WKUK Easter egg - the leitmotif he finally hits on is "You are my child bride."
Jaws is a masterpiece and not just for the E-F shark motif.
For the very first time in his astounding career, John blew it with end credit music for "Dial Of Destiny." It ends with a somber music cue, rather than a few a bars of Marion's theme with a triumphant segue into the Raiders March. That would have put a period on the series. But, as it is, you leave the theater with a "gloomy" mood that doesn't reflect the film's final scene. IMHO, the score, as it exists, just doesn't work with the ending of both this movie & the series.
So, either John, or somebody in the music editing department, really misjudged how the end credit score would "play." The party I was with all agreed, that musically, this was a very, very rare instance of a Williams score missing the mark. Otherwise, the score was perfect.
Perhaps it reflects an earlier ending...
mr...?
bond.
family bond.
Raiders should have won all the awards that year but the Academy preferred Chariots of Fire and the score crafted by Van Gelis. Which was indeed a great score, but it is not the movie and music in heavy rotation for essentially my entire life.
quality
What do you mean “this one”? He’s genius for many soundtracks.
Not many ppl know this, but having the ark would've done nothing for the Nazis. When God decided the Hebrews should not engage in a battle, but they did anyways, they were not blessed with a victory. The ark itself wasn't what gave the Hebrews their power, but their obedience to the God that "resided" within it. This was probably just overlooked by Lucas and Spielberg, bc it's a rather unknown part of the story, even amongst christians and Jews.
can you make a sleepover activities ranked video?
It's Leitmotiv in German😉
Most of the new film is recycled last crusade tracks 😢 can’t think of any new memorable theme
How many times have you seen it?
I favorite motif is the nazi's theme that plays in the third movie
It was an abomination what they did to Williams's music for the Dial of Destiny trailer.
I'm going to be honest, I thought John Williams was dead XD
Surprised this isn't your umpteenth video on Radiohead or Arctic Monkeys I thought p4kcore was your whole thing
Wonderful music for a wonderful exciting movie, the best one of the franchise.
Isn't it pronounced (lay-moteef) and not (light-moteef)? I always thought it was lay. Weird.
I pronounce it your way, too.
It is German and means "lead", the leader of a group is its "Leiter". "Light Motiv" is correct.
Barely noticed the score in Dial of Dysentery. Shame he went out on such a low note.
You bet your sweet bity he is!!
Oh, when movies had heart & soul…Story and Music…now they attempt to manufacture inspiration and ingenuity to no avail. Life is very simple and yet we muck it up
*Promo sm*
bro think he sideways
Yeah. Unfortunately that's the biggest and best thing about Spielberg's movies, the John Williams soundtrack. Take that away and you have a great student film, but nothing truly earth-shattering. Hes not Alfred Hitchcock. Hes not Stanley Kubrick. Hes not even James Cameron. The man has no technical genius of his own. Hes just the most learned craftsman in Hollywood. That doesnt make him the best. That doesnt make him a pioneer.
Then you have a movie like Solo, where the music is overused
Leitmotif this, leitmotif that.
It's just motif.
Dude, that are not Leitmotifs, that are just couple of themes which suppose to underline the movie. The real master, apart of Wagner in the Leitmotif technique is Howard Shore who composed over 100 Leitmotifs for the Lord of the Rings, and in which every Leitmotifs never comes back the same, depending on the situation and gives narration to the movie - true mastery of a kind.
He willingly worked for disney, that completely tanked his legacy.
Well john Williams score is the only bright spot in the new Indiana jones movie lol
I enjoyed the movie