All right. So today, we're going to do one of my favorite topics. Where do movie composers get their music from? And today we're going to

do John Williams. So John Williams is pretty open about this. John Williams, of course,

unbelievably literate when it comes to the classical repertoire. And I'm going to play for you

some of the music that John Williams clearly took his inspiration from when he wrote things like

Star Wars or Jaws or Harry Potter.

We begin with the most obvious where he got the music for Star Wars. So there is no question

that he used as his inspiration. Gustav Holtz the planets for Star Wars, which makes sense.

I mean, it was kind of space music that was written

in the early 20th century when people were very fascinated by the planets. Pulse wrote this

suite called the planets, and Mars Bringer of War is clearly the inspiration for the empire

theme from Star Wars. So here is John Williams' empire theme from Star Wars.

Music Star Wars. So here is John Williams' empire theme from Star Wars.

And then here is some of Mars Bringer of War.

And as you can hear, they're using the exact same rhythm, right?

Da-da-lan-dan-dun-d-dun-d-da-l-l-da-l-da-l-da-l-da-l-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. I sense something. That's not the only use of Holtz the planet in Star Wars. If you listen to some of the music from Neptune, The Mystic, what you will hear is

the way that he scores, for example,

the Dune Sea on Tatooine. That malfunctioning little twirp, this is all his fault.

He tricked me.

A lot of people think that John Williams also got his inspiration for some of the Star Wars music

or for Indiana Jones, for that matter, from Eric Corngold.

Eric Corngold was a movie scorer in the 30s and 40s. He wrote a bunch of great scores. His best score is The Adventures of Robin Hood, one of the great scores of all time. One of my favorite score is also a spectacular movie with Errol Flynn. You can definitely show your kids that movie. My kids love that movie. It is phenomenal. But the score for Kings Row,

which was a movie starring Ronald Reagan, actually.

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