Never Tell Me the Odds - Part II - The Old Gold
Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews
Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker
4.4 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Full of Sith proudly presents this two-part podcast miniseries on the score to Solo: A Star Wars Story, focused on the music composed and created by John Powell, featuring original and new themes by John Williams
Part two of this miniseries focuses on action music in film scores, Powell's unique approach to composing it, and the multiple uses of pre-existing themes and motifs throughout Solo, both as inspiration for his new work and through variations on the old Star Wars standbys.
Music in this episode includes:
Larger than Life (Captain America: Civil War)
Origins (Thor: The Dark World
Captain America March (Captain America: The First Avenger)
End Credits (The Avengers)
Warrior Falls (Black Panther)
Supermarine (Dunkirk)
King of Pride Rock (The Lion King)
Why So Serious (The Dark Knight)
Drink Up Me Hearties (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Reminiscence Therapy
Train Heist
Krennic's Aspirations (Rogue One)
The Imperial March (The Empire Strikes Back)
Into the Maw
L3 and Millennium Falcon
Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack (Star Wars)
Into the Superstructure (Return of the Jedi)
The Battle of Crait (The Last Jedi)
Forbidden Friendship (How to Train Your Dragon)
A Man of Constant Sorrow (O Brother, Where Art Thou)
Chicken in the Pot
Lapti Nek (Return of the Jedi)
Duel of the Fates
Marauders Arrive
Flying with Chewie
Dice and Roll/End Credits
Includes excerpts from the video essay "The Marvel Cinematic Universe" by Every Frame a Painting (Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou), Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Written, produced & edited by Bobby Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | Stand by, please, gentlemen. Here we go. |
| 0:09.0 | All right, here it is, Jones. |
| 0:11.0 | Settle down. |
| 0:13.0 | Six, three, five, seven. |
| 0:16.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:18.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello there. I'm Bobby Roberts, and welcome to Never Tell Me the Odds, a special two-part podcast miniseries focused on the score to solo, a Star Wars story composed by John Powell with |
| 0:46.0 | original Star Wars music and new themes by John Williams. In part one, we talked about John |
| 0:51.8 | Powell, the man who would write the theme for Han Solo, |
| 0:54.5 | until it turned out John Williams was going to do it for him. |
| 0:57.9 | And then he just had to, oh, you know, reinterpret John Williams' new and old themes while |
| 1:03.0 | also writing his own new themes and then weaving them all into a cohesive hole while using |
| 1:07.2 | the music to smooth over the rough spots in a patchwork movie that was basically shot twice in a year and a half, |
| 1:12.4 | and then provide the necessary special sauce to make solo a fun-loving, freewheeling adventure film that also had to feel like Star Wars without feeling like a Star Wars copy. |
| 1:22.3 | So this John Powell guy, he goes and he creates a theme for Chubaca, a theme for Enfus Nest, a theme for L337, |
| 1:31.4 | a love theme for Han and Kira, a crime theme for Beckett's gang, a motif for dishonesty and |
| 1:37.3 | betrayal, and a motif for gambling or, more accurately, cheating at cards. And not only does he |
| 1:44.0 | manage to reinterpret Williams' themes in ways that the maestro likely never |
| 1:47.8 | thought of, his themes for Enfis and Chubaca are arguably as good, if not better, than the Han |
| 1:55.2 | theme. |
| 1:56.0 | And he manages to pull all that off while writing music that incorporates feelings and colors |
| 2:00.2 | that don't normally occupy space in the Star Wars Clubhouse and blends them perfectly with those classic |
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