Post by RhodoraO on Mar 18, 2017 8:39:48 GMT
Although I'm quoting below from Hans Zimmer's interview to inverse.com, this introduction to the newsbite from Vulture is priceless:
Hans Zimmer, Unsatisfied with Batfleck, Really Misses Christian Bale’s Batman
By Hunter Harris
Hans Zimmer misses the old Batman, straight from the go Batman, chop up the soul Batman (yes, that works). The legendary composer isn’t so sold on the new Batman, the bad mood Batman, sad in the news Batman: that is to say, Ben Affleck’s Batman.
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From Hans Zimmer's interview to Inverse:
www.inverse.com/article/29179-hans-zimmer-quit-superhero-scores-batman-masterclass
If you take the three Chris Nolan Batmans, that’s three movies to you, but to you and Chris, it was 12 years of our lives. So sometimes you just have to say, “I don’t know where I’m heading, but I’m going to jump off this cliff.” As soon as I said it, there were a lot of phone calls coming my way going, “Are you crazy?” But I’ve never written music for money; money isn’t inspiring. And I didn’t want to get into it where it became a job.
Ron Howard actually said something very smart to me. He said, “Don’t say you will never do a superhero movie again. Wait for somebody to turn up with an amazing script for a superhero movie.” And I suppose that’s what I’m saying: Can I please have the amazing script?
It just did my brain in to have written Christian Bale as Batman, and suddenly it’s Ben Affleck [in *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*]. And it felt like I was betraying everything Christian had done. So there’s a certain amount of loyalty attached to those movies, as well.
[Interviewer:]It’s interesting that the actor changes the way you do the music when it’s the same character but a different person under the cape and cowl.
I spent months trying to come up with something for Ben. The Batman that I know and the one I learned is the one that Christian did, and Ben plays it differently. And I can’t quite shake that off. For me, the Christian Bale character was always completely unresolved. It was always about that moment at the beginning of the first movie, where he sees his parents getting killed. It was basically arrested development. The Ben character is more middle-aged; he seems to be grumpy as hell, but I didn’t feel the pain that I felt in Christian’s performance. And it was that pain that made me interested.
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Wow! It's so awesome to learn that one of the greatest most awe-inspiring scores in Cinema history that is actually evolved and resolved over the course of three movies was inspired by Christian Bale's performance of the pivotal character! That score was a big factor in cementing my feelings to this franchise (I used to distance myself from comic book movies before, and since!) and to Bale as an actor and Nolan as a director (Batman Begins was only Bale's second film performance that I ever watched) and this news just confirms what his fans have always felt about his role in this franchise's success and what the filmmaking/going world will come to realize more and more years to come!
Hans Zimmer, Unsatisfied with Batfleck, Really Misses Christian Bale’s Batman
By Hunter Harris
Hans Zimmer misses the old Batman, straight from the go Batman, chop up the soul Batman (yes, that works). The legendary composer isn’t so sold on the new Batman, the bad mood Batman, sad in the news Batman: that is to say, Ben Affleck’s Batman.
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From Hans Zimmer's interview to Inverse:
www.inverse.com/article/29179-hans-zimmer-quit-superhero-scores-batman-masterclass
If you take the three Chris Nolan Batmans, that’s three movies to you, but to you and Chris, it was 12 years of our lives. So sometimes you just have to say, “I don’t know where I’m heading, but I’m going to jump off this cliff.” As soon as I said it, there were a lot of phone calls coming my way going, “Are you crazy?” But I’ve never written music for money; money isn’t inspiring. And I didn’t want to get into it where it became a job.
Ron Howard actually said something very smart to me. He said, “Don’t say you will never do a superhero movie again. Wait for somebody to turn up with an amazing script for a superhero movie.” And I suppose that’s what I’m saying: Can I please have the amazing script?
It just did my brain in to have written Christian Bale as Batman, and suddenly it’s Ben Affleck [in *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*]. And it felt like I was betraying everything Christian had done. So there’s a certain amount of loyalty attached to those movies, as well.
[Interviewer:]It’s interesting that the actor changes the way you do the music when it’s the same character but a different person under the cape and cowl.
I spent months trying to come up with something for Ben. The Batman that I know and the one I learned is the one that Christian did, and Ben plays it differently. And I can’t quite shake that off. For me, the Christian Bale character was always completely unresolved. It was always about that moment at the beginning of the first movie, where he sees his parents getting killed. It was basically arrested development. The Ben character is more middle-aged; he seems to be grumpy as hell, but I didn’t feel the pain that I felt in Christian’s performance. And it was that pain that made me interested.
_______________
Wow! It's so awesome to learn that one of the greatest most awe-inspiring scores in Cinema history that is actually evolved and resolved over the course of three movies was inspired by Christian Bale's performance of the pivotal character! That score was a big factor in cementing my feelings to this franchise (I used to distance myself from comic book movies before, and since!) and to Bale as an actor and Nolan as a director (Batman Begins was only Bale's second film performance that I ever watched) and this news just confirms what his fans have always felt about his role in this franchise's success and what the filmmaking/going world will come to realize more and more years to come!