Saturday, February 18, 2012

Inspiration or Duplication?

Lets all give Dos a round of applause. He put a lot of time and effort into that article. Granted, I did not read more than 3 sentences of it. Something about people not being able to lie (I actually had a movie idea about this same scenario!) and someone getting into a car crash at the end of the movie (Dammit Dos, spoiler alert!!). But anyway, unless you have seen or heard of that movie, that article was boooooooring. Snooze alert! And unless you like comics, or classical music, you will find this post boring as well.

When it comes to scoring movies, everyone knows Hans Zimmer is the man. From Gladiator, to The Last Samurai, to Inception, to the Batman movies, his scores are incredible. But what if they aren't completely his own work? Did Mr. Zimmer sample someone else's creation? Lets watch the video below that looks into that very notion.



After watching this, you can see the two pieces sound exactly the same. But I don't think he just wanted to steal the work and pass it off as his own. He is too talented for that. I think this is just simply a case of Zimmer showing respect for a piece of work that influenced and had an impact on him. And the hopes of getting that composer some recognition. Well, it worked, because I am about to download some other works by Francis Lai. Mystery solved.

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