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Lucas was very keen for Williams to emulate the thematic scores of Golden Age Hollywood such as those by Erich Korngold and Max Steiner, a bold move given that the style had become deeply unfashionable by the late Seventies. Williams scored Star Wars in the same way composers of earlier cinema had done, with equal emotion being carried by the soundtrack as within the scenes themselves
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The recommendation that Lucas approach Williams came via Steven Spielberg, who’d just worked with him on Jaws, a movie whose blockbuster status was due in no small part to its iconic score (which won him an Academy Award in 1976). George Lucas had originally planned to source existing classical music for the soundtrack, as Stanley Kubrick had done nearly 10 years earlier with 2001: A Space Odyssey. John Williams’ evocative orchestral score inspired a new generation of film soundtracks it has been extensively celebrated, parodied and paid homage to – but the now-legendary partnership of some 30 years nearly didn’t happen at all.
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There are few films as firmly etched in our memories as Star Wars – the merest mention immediately brings to mind the iconic lightsaber, the cold dark gaze of Darth Vader’s mask and Han Solo’s lurching Millennium Falcon.Īll soundtracked in your mind, of course, by the heroic opening bars of the film’s opening score – or perhaps the more menacing “duh duh duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh!” of Darth Vader’s universally recognised Imperial March.