Different films, Same score (1 Viewer)

[Seth--L]

Holst's "The Planets" has been endlessly used and reworked by Hollywood, particularly "Mars" and "Jupiter" ("Jupiter" in about every trailer for a feel-good movie).

Lately Williams has been recycling.

 

[Chris Atkins]

The music played during the Quidditch match for Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (when Harry and Draco are trying to catch the gold thing) sounds very similar if not the same to the chase through Coruscant sequence of Attack Of The Clones.

I noticed this too, Simon.

 

[Kevin Grey]

From what I understand Wes Craven temp tracked Scream 2 with the Broken Arrow theme and loved it so much he kept it in the final. It was kind of jarring though....

 

[ChuckSolo]

Not to mention that almost ALL of the old Universal monster movies like "The Wolfman", "Son of Frankenstein", most of the "Mummy" movies all had the same score.

 

[MichaelPe]

James Horner is the biggest offender in re-using his own music.

And, sometimes the music of others.

 

[Oliver Kopp]

The Score of Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean sometimes sounds very similar.

 

[Sean Moon]

Gladiator was done by Hans Zimmer, Pirates from some new guy Klaus something or other, but was overproduced by Hans Zimmer.

James Horner does have a knack for reusing his own material A LOT, but when he does something original for the most part, he is amazing. Braveheart, Glory(good god what a soundtrack!), Titanic(lots of reuse, yet good reuse), Mask of Zorro. Still one of my fav composers.

 

[FredK]

The Score of Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean sometimes sounds very similar.

The composers of POTC Klaus Badelt(sp?) worked with Zimmer on a few projects, and the similarities are front and center. I'd like to get my hands on Badelt's Equilibrium score... completely synthesized but still has much more range than POTC. IIRC POTC had a very short turnaround time though, so again the similarities are understandable.

edit: Sean posted same time.

 

[Adam_ME]

Parts of Jerry Goldsmith's scores for U.S. Marshals and Star Dreck: Insurrection sound identical. It didn't help matters that both movies came out in the same year.

I also remember Elliot Goldenthal reusing some of the music in Demolition Man for Crapman & Robin. Then again, the latter film didn't really deserve to have anything original composed for it.

 

[Rob Gillespie]

James Horner has a specific piece of music which he uses quite a bit. It's in the opening of Aliens and used again during the research scenes from his Jack Ryan scores

That piece is almost a carbon-copy of Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet Suite which can be heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[Ray H]

Adding to the James Horner list, the main theme of Glory was reused in the last scene of Braveheart with some added flourishes.

 

[JamesDrake]

Is it just me or does Star Wars and Superman have simialr music?

Maybe, it's just me.

 

[ChuckSolo]

Similar yes, the same, NO. Both are by John Williams so it itsn't hard to hear the similarities.