Superman: the Music (part II)

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Film History, Music History, Tv & Film, Music

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We continue our fly-through of Superman (1978) by listening to the love theme from the film score, and discuss a fascinating behind-the-scenes story. Other themes are analyzed and discussed, including a theme for Smallville, Lex Luthor and the March of the Villains, and a theme for the green crystal of Krypton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Soundtrack Show will begin in 5, 4, 3.
0:05.0	With the score for Superman, John Williams once again created effective light motifs or themes to aid in his musical storytelling.
0:21.0	This is the soundtrack show. The Oh, Welcome back to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W Collins and this episode has us
1:14.3	flying through even more of the iconic themes found in Superman the movie. A film
1:20.4	from 1978 by Warner Brothers Pictures, directed by Richard Donner
1:24.8	with a film score by John Williams.
1:27.3	On the last episode, we laid the groundwork for how Superman was to be framed from a musical and storytelling perspective.
1:35.8	We covered the main themes for Superman and for his home planet of Krypton.
1:40.3	Ah, sorry, Krypton.
1:42.3	Well, we almost covered them.
1:44.0	There are still more themes to discuss.
1:46.0	Themes that involve major parts of the movie,
1:49.0	like its villains, like Smallville,
1:51.0	like Krypton and its powerful crystals, one of which in particular creates Superman's
1:55.8	Fortress of Solitude, and of course a very, very important theme that covers the love story
2:02.3	between Superman and Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane.
2:06.0	It's this love theme that I want to kick off the show with as it's one of the most important
2:11.2	and iconic themes in the whole score.
2:14.2	It's even featured in the main credits, along with the Superman Call to Action or Fanfare,
2:19.2	and the Superman March itself.
2:21.6	It even has its own concert suite treatment from Williams. It's a theme that goes
2:26.3	like this. Oh, Oh, uh'm not. Now as you'll notice it's very beautiful but also playful and as Mike Matissino calls it
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