On 4/25/2022 2:06 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> Natalie Holt (composer for LOKI) has been selected to score the OBI-WAN KENOBI
> series. Some of her comments regarding her new job:
>>
>> [Holt's] work on the show, which she can now confirm publicly for the first
> time, put her in collaboration with STAR WARS icon John Williams, who has
> written an original theme for Ewan McGregor's Jedi-in-exile. "Obviously,
> I'm
> just thrilled to be mentioned in the same breath as John Williams,"
> Holt says.
> "It's been exciting and overwhelming at times because I'm such a fan. I
> want
> to pay respect to the history of it and do it justice as well."
>>
>> Q: How did you and Williams come to work in tandem?
>>
>> HOLT: Obi-Wan is a legacy character that John hadn't written a theme for
> because he died quite early on in A NEW HOPE. It's the only legacy
> character
> that he hadn't done. So he spoke to [Lucasfilm president]
> Kathleen Kennedy and
> said, "I just want to write Benny a theme." So who can deny him that? And
> he
> did, he wrote the Obi theme, and it just embodies the spirit of the show
> entirely.
>>
>> Q: How would you describe his new Obi-Wan theme?
>>
>> HOLT: It's reflective and it's just entirely appropriate. And it distills what
> the show is about in just the perfect way that only John Williams can. It's
> wistful, but there's an element of hope to it. It's doing something new and
> I
> think people are going to be really blown away by it.
>>
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>> That's all well and good but she's completely wrong about
>
> Pretty much everything starting with the name of the movie!
>
> Are we sure she isn’t thinking about uncle Owen?
>
> And it’s not like old Ben Kenobi just vanished when he was struck down
> (Which was not early on) he just became somewhat transparent but he also
> started glowing which seems to me that it would even out.
>
>
>
>> Ob-Wan being the
>> only legacy character that Williams hasn't written a
>> leitmotif for.
>>
>> Umm... Chewbacca? R2? C3PO? All legacy characters who don't have themes.
>>
>> I know some people say this little motif from EMPIRE is supposed to be the
> Droids' theme:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6e3dwl4lre6ytq/Droids.png?dl=0
>>
>> But it was only ever used in EMPIRE and even then only in the first reel
> during the Hoth scenes, so it can hardly be called a full-fledged theme for
> the robots.
>>
>
> “Natalie Holt is a dolt”

Not her folt...