Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to www.bbc.com.uk

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Two households. Both alike in dignity in Fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

from ancient grudge and break to new mutiny,

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal lines of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.

Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrman stopped. One of the most successful big-screen adaptations of Shakespeare in movie history, and still the most dizzily dazzling, colourful and energetic

The Australian director is also the man who brought a strictly ballroom, Moulin Rouge,

and this year with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role The Great Gatsby, and Baz's films are full of songs like this.

He met mummered like to love. are full of songs like this. A selection of some of the tracks that are inbuilt Now, the man responsible for what many of them sound like

is composer and arranger Craig Armstrong.

On the three films they've worked on, Romeo and Juliet,

Moulin Rouge and the Great Gatsby, Craig has composed the original music, and he's also

collaborated with everyone from Jay Z to Beyonce, from Ewan McGregor to Nicole Kidman, Christina

Aguilera to Lil Kim. Craig's background as composer and arranger too meant that he had an unusual route into the world of film music.

We convened a colloquy between Baz in New York and Craig in Glasgow

and went back to where it all began.

I had been working with Nellie Hooper, the producer.

And Nellie was working with Baz and Romeo and Juliet,

and I came along to work with the orchestra.

And the first time I met Baz was actually in San Francisco,

in Skywalker Ranch.

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