John Ottmans score for X-Men: Days Of Future Past was recently strongly recommended to me, so you can imagine my disappointment when I discovered that one of its main themes, Hope (youtu.be/fl-D3s-qFis), is merely the latest reuse of Hans Zimmers Time. Subsequently, I had the thought to investigate how many times Time has been recycled. It turns out Time itself was largely borrowed from Zimmers theme for The Thin Red Line, composed all the way back in 1998: youtu.be/c6oWoDev7EI As far as I can tell, Zimmer then sat on the idea until 2010, when he produced Time (youtu.be/MuAGGZNfUkU) - although I would bet that it was, in fact, reused in the intervening time, and that Ive just not heard the relevant scores. In 2013, Zimmer did another copy-paste job for 12 Years a Slave, resulting in the following: youtu.be/rJ0FQovU0Ws Around the same time, Henry Jackman, Zimmers associate, was having difficulty getting the director of Captain Phillips to accept his (Jackmans) work, so Zimmer stepped in with another nearly-identical variation of the same piece: youtu.be/_xFyX_rkTGM Sadly, it seems the average viewer has heard so much Zimmer that they dont even know to demand that a film has a genuinely distinct musical identity, so the majority opinion seems to be that one progression fits perfectly! in five hugely different films.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:14:20 +0000
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