But even among such cultural elitism, after the success of Star Wars, Williams in particular came under attack for being over-sentimental, simplistic, manipulative and a pasticheur – or worse, a plagiarist. Subordinate to images, often buried under sound effects, film music is often seen as the neglected step-child of the classical world. 1977’s Star Wars Williams has scored all nine of Star Wars movies. ‘The one thing he does so amazingly is create memorable tunes’. They are all different but by the same man.” “You can play the first two bars of Superman, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and ET and people recognise them instantly. “As we reach his 90th birthday, I think the people who just go: ‘Oh, they all sound the same,’ just can’t justify it any more,” says the London Symphony Orchestra’s first violinist Maxine Kwok, who was inspired to join the LSO because it was the orchestra that performed the Star Wars score. I would go to hear John Williams’s music.” Usually, you would go to the cinema to see the actors. “Looking back they still hold up all these characters elevated by his inventiveness. “I was immediately smitten by the leitmotifs,” says the virtuoso violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, about seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1978 in the Black Forest. But with the children weaned on Williams now old enough to be composers, musicians, critics and scholars, that is finally changing. For all his accomplishments, Williams has always been undervalued by the classical establishment. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney – with five wins. A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. The capital area is also the most significant for cinema attendance.Superman, 1978.
Of the country’s new cases on Wednesday, Seoul reported 3,166 and Gyeonggi 2,296. The virus surge has been especially serious in capital city Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province. Its box office career may be dented if the new health measures herald restricted cinema capacities and operating hours. Wednesday also saw the release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which had enjoyed record levels of pre-sales. Those theaters were not required to operate at reduced capacity and could stay open beyond the previous 10pm curfew.īut over the most recent weekend, as rising numbers of virus cases were reported, nationwide aggregate box office revenues slumped to just $3.44 million. KOFIC had introduced a discount scheme as a stimulus measure and cinema operators CGV and Lotte had begun creating ‘vaccine-pass theaters’ within their multiplexes. Ticket sales jumped to 6.51 million, delivering gross revenues of $55.5 million, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). The Song Kang-ho and Lee Byung-hun action film premiered in July at the Cannes Film Festival.Ĭinema attendance had swelled in November as curfew and social distancing measures were eased back. That potentially deals a fresh blow to cinemagoing at the Christmas and New Year peak season.ĭistributor, Showbox on Wednesday told Variety that it is now postponing the January release of its aptly named “ Emergency Declaration” due to worsening COVID conditions. Details of the new measures are expected to be announced Friday and enforced for at least the next two weeks.
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