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The Soundtrack Show

Jurassic Park: The Music (Part I)

The Soundtrack Show

iHeartPodcasts

Film History, Music, Music History, Tv & Film

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In our first episode dedicated to Jurassic Park, we explore the emotion behind the music. How is it different than Spielberg and Williams' first monstrous collaboration, Jaws? We delve into the history of Jurassic Park's development, discuss the differences between the film and the original novel, and the critical role those differences play in the creation of the film's beautiful sountrack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. Our show is about to begin.

0:10.0

In Jurassic Park, John Williams and Stephen Spielberg didn't give 1993 audiences a typical music

0:17.8

score for a monster movie.

0:20.5

While there are plenty of amazing scares in Jurassic Park, the score plays against type.

0:26.0

It's emotional, bold, and almost sentimental.

0:30.0

It's time to find out why. This is the soundtrack show. The Oh, The Chaos Theory.

1:32.0

First iteration, at the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. Second iteration, with subsequent drawings of the fractal

1:36.8

curve, sudden changes may appear. Dr. Ian Malcolm.

1:43.0

Welcome back to the soundtrack show.

1:45.0

I'm your host David W Collins.

1:46.0

And on this episode, we're engineering a first look at the soundtrack for Jurassic Park.

1:52.0

A movie from 1993 directed by Stephen Spielberg,

1:56.2

our second Spielberg movie on the soundtrack show, with a score by John Williams,

2:01.5

his third score that we've covered so far.

2:04.6

Jurassic Park from 1993, ah, 1993.

2:09.0

The world was changing so fast in 93.

2:12.3

In the 90s in general, cell phones weren't in wide use, neither was the internet.

2:17.0

People didn't shop online and there was certainly no social media, at least as we know it today.

2:22.0

No podcasts, no YouTube, no streaming services.

2:26.4

Movies were still on VHS and people bought music on CD. Well okay I still I still buy CDs, but anyway, home computers were changing so fast

2:36.4

that you had to buy a new one almost every year if you wanted to run the latest operating

2:40.8

system or video game. Speaking of operating systems, you still had to

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