I think Anthem of Evil was used too sparingly in the film. I only really noticed it after a few watches, definitely needs to be emphasised throughout.
Yeah, that’s one of the examples of “great music” I was talking about. I think re-scoring the entire movie using old music is the wrong approach. Instead we should emphasize the music that’s already there, and bring the score more in line with Williams’s intentions.
Yeah I watched Sideways video a couple weeks ago and he explains how TROS really kind of missed the mark on the usually very well-thought out placement of Star Wars.
I think the most egregious examples of this are:
- Yoda’s theme being used when Luke lifted the X-Wing
- Luke and Leia’s theme used for Lando and Jannah (very weird)
- Under-representation of Prequel music (my opinion not from Sideways’ video)
Possibilities for Prequel music are:
-Battle of Heroes for Rey V. Ren on the DSII until the the TROS music starts - The choir from Duel of the Fates for Rey meeting with Palpatine for the Sith Eternal
- And from my own testing Across the Stars in some capacity works very well with Ben reviving Rey
(But I would recommend that that there be some remixing, maybe slower or deeper or mixed in with the TROS music that goes on during this scene… really anything done will probably be good)