Comments on: John Williams – Theme from Jaws https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-theme-from-jaws/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:23:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Phil Berardelli https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-theme-from-jaws/#comment-928686 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:23:04 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41290#comment-928686 Thanks, Bob. Spielberg has told two stories about the creation of the “Jaws” theme. In the first, he described the first conference he had with Williams about the possible music for the movie. He said he had in mind something sinister and creepy, such as the score Williams had composed for Robert Altman’s “Images” in 1972 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBTp56cdBY). Williams reacted to the suggestion by saying, “No, no, no, dear boy! This is a pirate movie!” He meant that his concept for “Jaws” would convey a sense of high adventure, particularly in the second half of the movie, where it’s three men in a boat against the shark. Spielberg’s second story was about the day Williams invited him to hear what he had composed. Sitting in Williams’s living room, Spielberg heard Williams play the now-famous shark theme with two fingers on the piano, including the pauses. When Williams finished, Spielberg said he laughed and thought it was a joke. “No, no,” Williams said, again, “this is it.” I think we can safely say Williams was right on both counts. And as Spielberg eventually wrote about Williams for the movie score’s album cover, “He has made our movie more adventurous, gripping and phobic than I ever thought possible.” Indeed!

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“Two notes, and you’ve got a villain.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHuVnL-ghw#t=86

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