[Fmpro] Attention Santa Claus:

[bipcress@comcast.net]

Latest Rant: "Where are the Distinctive Voices in scoring?" - OK, yes, there are a few courageous and profoundly expressive artists still functioning in the medium - Alexander Desplat, Chris Gunning, Jose Nieto, Ennio Morricone, Mike Giacchino, John Williams, Joe Hisaishi, Angelo Badalamenti (where has he been), Howard Shore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and some others - but they are certainly in the extreme minority (or don't seem to work enough). I want FILM MUSIC to come back. I want film composers to once again be permitted - no, encouraged - to express themselves fully from the deepest recesses of their being. I want melody, BIG luscious full-blown memorable melody. I want bold, ostentatious main title ballads or instrumentals that will vividly represent the whole of a narrative and will stick with me for weeks after leaving the theatre. I want distinctive and colorful motives (that will actually draw attention to themselves) for individual characters and/or situations/locales. I want outlandish experimentation from film composers - so advanced that it will actually pull out ahead of directors and writers and itself inspire cinematic innovation! Imagine that: the composers leading the way. Ain't that a glowing, glorious dream? I don't think any of the above is too much to ask for. Hell, I shouldn't even have to ask - it should just happen already! We've been way too long now with the "farting around, saw dust and boom-box" school of scoring. You good chaps should kick all those slumming, butt-kissing bums out of town. I apologize for being coy. In my next post I will express my true feelings about this matter. - JohnB