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NOTES ON PROJECT X: HOW JAMES HORNER MAKES THE MONKEY SHINE

Thanks to the efforts of La-La Land records, one of James Horner’s most addictively enjoyable scores gets another deluxe treatment. Not that there was a lot to complain about: Varese Sarabande had released the near entirety of the score in 2001, a bewildering 14 years after the movie’s release, and although that limited edition album did not sell out overnight, it eventually did and in the intervening years has become a much coveted collector’s item. Now, eighteen years after Varese’s edition, La-La Land makes this masterful score available to a new generation of Horner fans. The new edition is even[...]

THE MUSIC OF PROJECT X AVAILABLE AGAIN AT LA-LA LAND RECORDS!

Hailed by critics when it was released in 1987 for its intelligence and its elements of anticipation, Project X directed by Jonathan Kaplan was also recognized for James Horner's fabulous score. 1987 was the same year of *Batteries Not Included. Project X tells the story of Corporal Jimmy Garrett (Matthew Broderick), a US Air Force pilot who will have to choose between his duty and his conscience. After a flight suspension, Garrett was assigned to a military-scientific project, Project X, for which he had to supervise chimpanzees forced to use flight simulators in order to become fighter pilots instead of[...]

STANDOUT SET PIECES #4: PROJECT X (1987)

4.0 Bringing you up to speed In his eye-opening book Save The Cat, screenwriter Blake Snyder reveals the structure of the standard Hollywood screenplay: a three-act story with fifteen different “beats”. It’s important to realize that Snyder didn’t invent anything, rather, he deduced it from the hundreds of movies he watched after having read Syd Field’s seminal work Screenplay. Assuming correctly that the average Hollywood movie runs about 110 minutes, Snyder arrived at a remarkable conclusion. Not only are these fifteen beats present in the vast majority of scripts, but they always occur at roughly the same time: the Midpoint arrives[...]

STANDOUT SET PIECES #1: THE LAUNCH FROM APOLLO 13

Scoring the moment refers to the practice of just trying to make the most out of individual scenes. Far too many film composers do it and incompetent directors love it (mostly because many of them wouldn’t know how else to score a movie), but you’ve guessed by now that the phrase has quite a negative ring to it. That’s mainly because the short-sighted focus on one individual scene after another makes storytellers forget what they’re actually doing: telling a story. And a story, as you will most certainly understand, is much more than a sequence of moments. Ever since the ancient[...]

PATRIOT GAMES: THE REVENGE OF A SCORE

What a lovely and fitting coincidence to have both scores composed by James Horner for the adventures of Jack Ryan released in extended versions within a month. Indeed, after Clear And Present Danger (1994) in June from Intrada, it was La-La Land Records’ turn to offer us Patriot Games (1992), which contains more than thirty minutes of previously unreleased music. This is an underestimated score and, despite its cold aspect (the horns and Tony Hinnigan’s pipes and flutes are not present) and some less accessible electro-percussive parts, Patriot Games deserves a second chance. The strength of this new limited edition of[...]

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