I just read on Hyperspace about John Williams recording the ROTS score. Woo hoo!
Here are the tantalizing but relatively spoiler-free tidbits:
The young lovers have shed the starry-eyed innocence of Episode II, worn down by witnessing years of warfare and deception. Though the love theme from Attack of the Clones appears in this cue, there's a sense of desperation behind it, of time ticking away. Anakin's troubled nature is signaled by the creeping approach of the Imperial March -- Darth Vader's theme from The Empire Strikes Back. The deep bass tones that lurk behind the love theme color the drama.Waaah!
There's a new piece called "Heroes Collide," which is about a car crash, right ;)? Lucas notes that there needs to be some
Duel of the Fates in the duel and Williams said he will add it later.
Next is "Revisiting Padmé," which covers the reunion of the lovers, Anakin and Padmé, in the film. It contains the familiar love theme from Episode II, but there's an interesting juxtaposition in tone. Proof that music greatly affects the perception of a scene, I remember seeing this sequence un-scored and feeling one way about it. In the rough cut, creepy temp music was inserted to an otherwise tame scene of tender exchanges. Here, in the final score, it's not so much creepy, but there is an undercurrent of dark uncertainty. Padmé brings a purity to it, in the form of a unblemished woodwind recitation of the love theme that crescendos to the next wipe.Waaah!
Then there's something about scoring a highly sad and spoilerific scene. Waaah! According to the piece, Hayden dropped by to watch the scoring.
Also, A/P fans, check out the Darth Vader calendar planned for release in May...if you look carefully you'll see some new shots of our favorite doomed couple:
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