James Horner's Movie Scores

Although they may not seem to be a significant element in a movie and not as important like the distribution or the special effects, movie scores became one of the most appreciated element for the cinematographic language.

The purpose of a film score is to define the period, the place where the action takes place, the type of action and the way that a certain scene must be perceived.

A very important example in the speciality books is the first scene in the movies 'Legends of the Fall' where James Horner chose to add to the landscape a sweet song to underlined the beauty of the view. If the scene remained silent or if it had some other type of soundtrack, the watcher would have had a lonely feeling.

Actually in all the movies for which James Horner composed the film score, the famous American composer proved his refinement for sustaining the scenes with very high intensity of feeling. The most important movies Are Bicentennial Man, Titanic, Apollo 13 and Legends of the Fall.

James Horner's latest movie score is the score for Avatar which has been viewed by the critics as a job well done in the context of the movie. The movie soundtrack creates the moods, it is very suggestive for the disposition of the characters and has a way of fueling the action, but it doesn't have the genre-redefining effect like other movie songs created by James Horner.

The American composer keeps a classic style and his movie music can be recognized easily, Horner follows the same formula in Avatar and doesn't carve any certain identity for the main them 'I See You'.

If it was to be judged only by the movie soundtrack, Avatar's score could be called 'a bit too familiar', but it definitely has some amazing moments and creative energy to satisfy the most educated tastes of film lovers and score critics.