Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Wednesday, June 12th,

2024 on today's episode of the show we are going to gather around the

virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson.

I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by

slash film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista.

Hello. All right Chris let's get into it. What we've been doing recently I

just wanted to mention up at the top of the show that I spoke with a bunch of composers about the art of thematic scoring. I've been curious about what happened to you know when we grew up Chris in the movies of like the blockbuster movies of the 80s and 90s, it felt like everyone in America could hum the theme songs to Back to the Future and Star Wars and Superman the movie and

you know the Batman movie and like all of these big giant films had these really

iconic scores that were very memorable and very, I don't know, just

like embedded in the popular consciousness in a way that movie scores are no longer.

And so I was curious about why that shift happened. So I spoke to a bunch of

different Oscar winning composers about their thoughts on the whole thing and compiled it into this big article.

So I'm going to link to that in the show notes.

I encourage people to check it out if you're interested in that.

So, all right, what we've been reading.

I read a book recently called Red Harvest by Dashel Hamlet.

Have you ever read any of Dashel Hamlet's stuff, Chris?

I actually read this back in high school.

So do you remember, do you remember anything about it?

Do you remember if you liked it?

I remember liking it a lot.

I remember liking the style style it's very it's got that punchy

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