Quote from: SM on Jun 12, 2007, 01:13:33 AM
Off topic-ish. I was watching Wrath of Khan yesterday and noticed Horner ripping himself off again during the scenes where Khan meets Chekov. Same stuff as he used later in Aliens during the early colony sweep scenes.
He musta really been stretched...
Actually, those basic melodies were present in as far back as what he did for '
Battle Beyond The Stars', but he tends to rearrange them sufficiently to fit in with each film's theme.
Just listen to '
Krull' It takes some of the pieces he's famed for using, but the score has an identity all of its own.
In the extra features for '
Aliens', I think there are interviews which show how amazingly rushed it was and that the music was meant to have suffered for that. It's either admitted or alluded to that he had so little time and opportunity to score new stuff, that he had to basically resort to what he knew worked well.
The same applies to the composer for '
Alien 3', but both efforts are amazing pieces of musical work.