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May 9, 2019 · The composer of some of cinema's most iconic themes talks creating a sound for the Avengers, jazzing up a heist, and Endgame 's most challenging scene. Alan Silvestri has...
Jun 16, 2020 · Alan Silvestri’s greatest contributions to cinema. lan Silvestri is one of the greatest composers working in Hollywood. Over a nearly 50-year career, Silvestri has consistently provided lush and strong scores that always enhance a film. Despite being shamefully overlooked by the Academy (racking up just two music nods over a long career ...
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- The Mummy Returns
- Flight of The Navigator
- Contact
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Forrest Gump
- Captain America: The First Avenger
Jerry Goldsmith so disliked scoring Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy that he refused to do the sequel. Step forward Silvestri who delivered one of his most gargantuan and enjoyable epics. There’s little time for subtlety in this rich blend of Egyptian instrumentation, massive choir and orchestra-shredding battle sequences, but Silvestri has always been o...
This ’80s family classic is scorched into the minds of an entire generation, no doubt due to repeat bank holiday viewings. Silvestri created one of his most memorable electronic compositions for the movie: composed entirely on the Synclavier, it moves from era-appropriate pop instrumental to a yearning sense of longing. That Silvestri is able to ca...
Criticised at the time of release for sounding too similar to Forrest Gump, Silvestri’s Contactscore, much like the movie itself, has increased in stature over the years. As befits the lofty themes of the movie (adapted from Carl Sagan’s book), this is a more melancholy, pensive and expansive score, albeit very much in the Silvestri orchestral moul...
Robert Zemeckis’ technically audacious live-action/cartoon hybrid remains a miracle to this day, mashing up our favourite animated characters with a sly Bob Hoskins murder mystery. It’s a complex movie that demands a multi-faceted score, with Silvestri having to make numerous tonal changes and keep multiple themes in check. From the frenetic toon m...
Silvestri’s first (and, to date, only) Oscar nomination for Best Score came for Robert Zemeckis’ smash-hit comedy-drama, one of the movie sensations of 1994. It’s a sprawling, picaresque tale as seen through the eyes of Tom Hanks’ naive central character, and Silvestri makes the sensible decison to ground the music in his emotional awakening, rathe...
Superhero scores were in a rough way in the early noughties, with the melodic impetus of John Williams’ Superman and Danny Elfman’s Batman seemingly not in vogue. Kudos then to director Joe Johnston who realised his nostalgically tinged origin story required a composer whose sound owed more to Hollywood’s Golden Age. By anchoring his Captain Americ...
- Back to the Future (1985) Back to the Future is one of the most beloved films of all time, and a large part of that is due to Alan Silvestri’s incredible score.
- Forrest Gump (1994) Forrest Gump is a timeless classic, and once again, Silvestri’s score plays a huge part in its success. The music perfectly captures the emotional highs and lows of the film, and has become one of Silvestri’s most iconic works.
- The Avengers (2012) The Avengers is one of the most successful films of all time, and a large part of that success is due to the incredible score by Alan Silvestri.
- Predator (1987) Predator is a classic action film, and Silvestri’s music perfectly captures the tension and excitement of the film. The iconic main theme has become instantly recognizable, and has helped to cement Silvestri’s place in film music history.
- Forrest Gump. Both rousing and incredibly sad, Silvestri’s musical accompaniment to the award-winning 1994 movie was crucial to its success. After the album was released, it crept up to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and stayed there for seven weeks.
- Captain America. If Silvestri’s score were accompanying anything but a Marvel movie, its old-school symphonic sound might risk feeling outdated. But it’s the combination of the triumphantly original brass melody, steady marching beat and final unexpected drum roll that makes Silvestri’s Captain America soundtrack heroic, with a perfectly-judged slice of cheese.
- The Avengers. Silvestri’s score to the first Avengers film is epically nostalgic and varied in its orchestration, beginning with a staccato bass in the cellos and double basses and moving into a glorious melody in the horns.
- Avengers: Infinity War. Silvestri described scoring Infinity War as “a really different experience than anything I’d done before, especially in regard to the approach and balancing quick shifts in tone”.
Apr 30, 2024 · And so, as we caught up with composer extraordinaire Alan Silvestri (who has worked on several Marvel movies including Endgame) at the Sands: International Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland ...
Filmtracks. Movie Wave. Soundtrack Geek. 7.11/10. Tracksounds. In November 2011, Marvel announced that Alan Silvestri, who scored Captain America: The First Avenger, would write and compose the score for The Avengers (making him the first composer to score more than one movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ).
