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Recycled Prequel Music!?

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Hey, did anyone notice that in Episodes II and III there's a pretty fair amount of recycled music from Episode I?

The biggest portion of which you can hear in the geonosis fight on Ep2... and the parts at the beginning sequence in Ep3...

I noticed this a long time ago, but never posted it. Now that I just saw Episode II again (for nostalgic reasons... don't panic!)
It bugged me. But, considering the film isn't worth new music, it's ok in that respect. What do you people say? How did this
come to be, anyway? Were they trying to make it feel like a TV serial with the same kind of music over and over?

Gah!

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I actually loved that "The Arena" finally got screen time in ROTS. While I hate 99% of Ben Burtt's musical decisions, he did two things in ROTS that I really did like:
1) The "War Drum" opening to the film.
2) "The Arena" when Vader and the Clonetroopers march on the Jedi Temple. The first moment I heard that cue during the midnight showing I thought (as I do now) THAT moment was worth saving the cue for. Too bad he had to butcher the end of it. I'd have liked the full cue to be played over an extended attack sequence in the temple.

Otherwise, yes, he recycled WAY too much music in the last two films. Everything on Geonosis is utterly unforgivable. Conveyor belt? The actual Attack of the Clones? Ugh!

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The problem was that Williams I think gave up on Star Wars after Episode I.

After spending years perfecting a score, in a matter of weeks, the score was torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up by Lucas and company for the battle for Naboo.

What once was a magnificent battle sequence, perhaps THE best battle sequence score he's composed, became nothing more than a hodge podge of snippets.

Why? Because he composed the music for the scene, then they edited it. He went back and rescored it. They re-edited it... he finally was unable to contribue any further, and they edited it however the frak they wanted, and simply pillaged his score.

Williams is said to have felt betrayed and artistically ignored by this.

Then you get Episode II. From composing Nearly 4 CD's worth of music for Episode I, he composed about one CD worth of music.

There was so much not finished with the film when he saw it that he and Lucas actually decided against scoring anymore, and he simply let them take from Episode I what they wanted and put it in the film.

After this, Williams seemingly had a talk with Lucas and said "Look, if you want me to score the films, we have to make a change here."

So, for episode III, they did things a lot different.

Williams composed nearly 3 cd's worth of music (as normal) and the music tracked into Episode III for the most part was pre-decided upon.

Everything except for a couple scenes like "Prophesy Misread" and "Plot to Destroy the Jedi" had pre-planned tracked music.

The rest were just small edits to the score.


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From what I'm aware, sections of music from EPISODE I were re-used in EPISODES II and III, and some parts of EPISODE II music in EPISODE III in action sequences either because the finished effects sequences were not ready for Williams to compose music to or there were extended/new sequences created after the music score had already been completed that needed music (i.e. the Droid factory scene in EPISODE II using parts of the earlier Coruscant/Zam chase). Williams normally redorded STAR WARS music with the LSO at the beginning of the year the film was to be released (i.e. with EPISODE ONE, I believe it was January 1999).

I personally like some of the re-use of the music in the later Prequels-to me, it gives the film continuity