SoundtrackVerse

‘Three Farmers’ Fantastic Mr. Fox | ‘Night Train to Nebelsbad’ The Grand Budapest Hotel

‘The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe, Part 1: A Veiled Mist’ and  ‘The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe, Part 4-6: Thunder’ Moonrise Kingdom (but also all music composed by Desplat included in the soundtrack is just variation on a theme which is later used in -->) |  ‘J.G. Jopling, Private Inquiry Agent’ The Grand Budapest Hotel

Moonrise Kingdom movie and soundtrack review

Composing The Folk Music Of A Made-Up Country (for Grand Budapest)

Alexandre Desplat: The Grand Budapest Hotel review

Music in Film: Under The Skin and The Grand Budapest Hotel

Film and Score Review: Moonrise Kingdom

Philip Glass 

The Thin Blue Line (1988) ‘Adam’s Theme’

The Truman Show (1998) ‘Raising the Sail’

The Hours (2002) ‘I’m Going to Make a Cake’

The Illusionist (2006) ‘The Orange Tree’

Carter Burwell Carol (2015) ‘Opening,’ ‘Lovers,’ ‘To Court’

Carol soundtrack review

Carol soundtrack review with remarks towards the Glassian piano (it was a shocker for me too to learn the composer was not in fact Philip Glass)

Burwell’s remarks on the soundtrack and the creating process

Carter Burwell’s Carol review of themes and inspirations

The video aims to point out the similarities in soundtracks of various many, though it focuses on composers like Klaus Badelt, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Steve Jablonsky, and Hans Zimmer who particularly likes to repeat himself. I understand that there aren’t unlimited possibilities and sooner or later composers are bound to repeat themselves but for many soundtrack buffs (myself included) these similarities are often downright annoying. Is this a question of making a ‘trademark sound‘ (you hear Hans Zimmer you know it’s him) or counting for the viewers/listeners to ignore the similarities?

While watching pay attention to:

Hans Zimmer King Arthur ‘Woad to Ruin’ | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ‘One Day’

James Horner Titanic ‘Rose’ | Klaus Badelt The Time Machine ‘Good Night’ | Hans Zimmer  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ‘I See Dead People in Boats’

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard Batman Begins ‘The Chase’ | Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘Soccent Attack’

Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ‘The Kraken’ | Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘Scorponok’ (intros)

Hans Zimmer King Arthur  ‘Woad to Ruin’ |  Steve Jablonsky Transformers ‘No Sacrifice, No Victory’

Hans Zimmer Gladiator, and all three PotC movies

Cliff Martinez The Knick (August 2014) ‘Finish Your Breakfast’ and ‘Placental Repair’

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl (September 2014) ‘What Have We Done To Each Other?’ and ‘Procedural’

Mac Quayle Mr. Robot (June 2015) ‘I Hate Society’ and ‘I’ve Been Lying To You.’

Composer Cliff Martinez and director Steven Soderbergh on their creation

On the innovative music of The Knick

Gone Girl soundtrack review

Interview with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack to Gone Girl

The Music of 'Mr. Robot': An Interview with Composer Mac Quayle (who was an assistant composer to Cliff Martinez for Drive, Contagion, The Company You Keep, and Spring Breakers.)