i'm a man of 70 years and every time i see the movie and hear this inspired music of John Williams, i go into another world, well up with emotion and end up totally choked and in tears. You don't sit through the film, you transcend to another place brought to you by two very special people.
It's almost impossible to accept that Close Encounters didn't win Best Original Score until you realize that it lost to John Williams again for Star Wars! Few people in any area have meant more to movies.
He won for both scores let’s be real, and repeated greatness of composing two of the best scores in history in 1993 with his Oscar for Schindlers list, and he also did Jurassic Park that year
I went to see "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" when it first came to movie theaters and was blown away by the movie and the musical score. I was so enthralled by the music I bought the album! ☆☆☆☆☆ 😎
Possibly John William's most angelic, and riveting soundtrack. Mixes of fear, sadness, joy, and wonder all rolled into a single most authentic ensemble. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind to me was 'The' movie that Steven Spielberg created to show us that we are not alone. Seeing those wonderful flying UFO's back then was the ultimate scene of fantasy. Douglas Trumbull who did the special effects was brilliant with the shots of Flashpoint Photography. Seeing a large ship landing in front of the secret servicemen at the base of Devil's Tower was sheer genius. Close Encounters is the pinnacle of movie making, and in 1977 this was quite the achievement to give the audience the most room for their imagination. This movie will live on as the most influential film of our time. All other films of today is just window dressing.
I love star wars too but on a different level. I'm just saying that John Williams has achieved such brilliance with this movie to allow the audiences imagination to run wild. Star wars was the pinnacle to action scifi films, and deserved every academy award, but close encounters will remain as the most influential for those people like myself as to - are we alone in this great big playground we call the universe.
Yes I know I read about how Steven Spielberg wanted make a film based on an actual landing somewhere in Kentucky or was it Michigan. I would have to look for the story again to be sure, but yes the story was about a real landing, and meeting with specific key personnel who attended the event. An incredible time for those who wanted nothing to do with the cold war or any other forms of wars. Hopefully the next time a landing is made it will be in full view of the public without the so called authorization from our governments. Besides... meetings like that is meant for everyone. Not those who deem themselves smarter or technologically advanced than others. Just like Roy Neary. All he was... was just an electrician who wanted answers. Like everybody else on this doomed planet.
@@derekroush5237 Is it really necessary to advertise your belief system everywhere? Dude, we're listening to a theme song for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Read the room. I'm an atheist and I don't feel the need to go to random comments and say "god isn't real" so why do you feel the need?
John Williams is truly the greatest and most prolific composer of the 20th Century. He has created some of the most iconic musical compositions and will probably be remembered alongside the works of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and the other great masters.
He is considered a modern classical composer. And, although there are hundreds who compose for movies, none have or will ever hit the bar Sir John Williams sat so high, with a career that spans 8 decades. (Although he was composing/arranging in the mid/late 1940’s, he is first credited in 1952.).
I'm as drawn to this music as Roy Neary was to Devil's Tower. More than four decades later, and I still tear up listening to John Williams brilliance in this piece. Such a wonderful part of the soundtrack of my life.
John Williams is the greatest unknown to the mainstream musician in human history. His music is recognized globally. Star Wars, ET, Indiana Jones, Fiddler in the Roof, Jaws, Superman, and Close Encounters to name but a few. Most of these pieces are known to all, but not the composer. John Williams rivals even my favorite composers of the baroque through classical periods. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, et al are now joined at the table of musical masters by Mr. John Williams...
Sir John Williams… THE MASTER! I saw this when it premiered. I remember during the credits, I just sat there with my eyes closed and absorbed every note. And, in the car, I broke down and cried, because the music is so amazing and beautiful. No matter how many times I’ve watched this movie, the intro still makes me giddy with excitement. There has never been anyone like Sir John Williams! And, there never will be.
It's a great moment, but he borrowed the theme from Respighi...check out Botticcelli Triptych, The Birth of Venus: czcams.com/video/hgO3JugGMm0/video.html
Williams is a modern day Beethoven. Emotion, story telling through his music: power, drama, intensity, gaiety, whimsy... Pick a movie theme, and you will SEE the movie when you hear the notes. Just as I see the landscape(s) when I hear Beethoven's 6th, see and feel power and drama when listening to the 5th. Timeless and amazing are both.
John Williams was really associated with Steven Spielberg which explains why a lot of Spielberg's films music (except 5 films) was composed by Williams, All hail the GOAT.
For good reason, John Williams is acknowledged as the best of film composers. The work of John Barry deserves an honorable mention. In both cases, such wide range and impact, their music such a memorable part of movies.
Of all of John Williams great Movie Scores, there is no doubt that his score for Close Encounters is quite simply the best. It has everything, and elicits every emotion. Nobody does it better than the Maestro himself, John Williams.
John Williams's music is the tumultuous synthesis of Stravinsky, Mahler, Copland, and Bernstein, in one!!! This is why he is on 'Short List' of 'Most Favorite Conductors'!!!!
One the most electric openers in movies to date. John Williams captured that wonderful mood of how our senses can work in over drive. Mixed with Spielbergs vision and Douglas Trumbulls special effects, we were given a beautiful movie unlike any other. A marvel in movie magic, with brilliant grandiose UFO scenes, and a heart felt feeling that leaves us wanting to see more.
Greatest score man gets me all the time wasn't born in this time but seen this movie in mid 2000s because im a 2000s baby but i really love this movie so much
I love how this song starts out, imposing and grand and sinister, then, slowly becomes wonderous and hopeful, then in the end, triumphant and joyous and majestic. It's like John Williams took the movie story and condensed it into pure music. Fear and imposition... Aliens are doing something unknown to people for purposes we don't know. Wonderous and hopeful: Aliens are MAKING CONTACT with people, still for reasons we don't know... Scary but exciting, but they don't seem to mean us harm. Joyous and majestic: They wanted to MEET US. Peacefully. They've been studying us at least for decades, and now they think we're ready to meet directly. Pure joyous crescendo and fanfare: They met us, and we met them. They took ambassadors from our world... Mostly people we picked, but ONE person that THEY picked managed to work the invitation out and make it to the meeting place! Earth has just joined the interstellar community... Maybe secretly, but... They thought we were ready and we passed the test they gave. Quiet hopeful upbeat ending: the ambassadors are on their way to the stars, and so is mankind... Maybe not officially yet, but the aliens have accepted us and seen we can accept them. The entire plot, in music form.
@@PubicGore Wow. I make a lengthy emotional analysis of this brilliant musical composition regarding how ingenious it is that the entire orchestral suite goes through all the emotional themes of the film in the exact same order and all you took away from or decided to add to the conversation was that I was technically wrong about a single split hair in the first couple words. That seems to me to be a bit petty.
@@GuukanKitsune No, it doesn't. And frankly, it's not that ingenious of a musical composition. John Williams is a modern composer, so fundamentally his music is quite simple in comparison to classical music. And if you're going to bother to attempt to state this piece is masterful, you should take the time to educate yourself to the fact that it's not a song. Also, all you demonstrated is how completely ignominious and terrible other modern composers are.
@@PubicGore Ah, yes, you must be one of those 'the old artists were better' types, who judges the work of today as worthless because they're not the works of centuries-dead men. Also, obviously you nothing about John Williams' work if you think of him as 'just another modern composer', because he likes crescendos and fanfares, traditionally simple affairs. His mastery is, and always has been, emotional depth in composition. His compositions might be simple but they masterfully evoke feelings and themes in perfection. At a word he can evoke feelings of sinister apprehension or childlike wonder. Mozart couldn't even do that... The Night Queen's Aria is supposed to be anger, for frig's sake, and sounds like joy more than anything. Listen to the ET suite and tell me that's not on par with Four Seasons in complexity. Listen to Duel of the Fates and tell me it's not more intricate and complex than the Hallelujah Chorus. You judge a man who has been KNIGHTED for his services to music, based on when he composed, and with no real idea of the broad range of his skillset. His haunting, sad, patriotic military elegy he wrote for Saving Private Ryan. The rolling, adventurous fanfare of Indiana Jones. The wonderous fanfare he wrote for Star Wars that is on par with any opening to any opera. Battlestar Galactica suite being a sinister but hopeful military fanfare... Written for a mainly SYMPHONIC orchestra with the addition of ONE and ONLY ONE trumpet to evoke a single military sentinel standing as guardian over a civilian migration across the sweeping emptiness of space. The swashbuckling flying melody he wrote for Hook, evoking childlike wonder and joy with every note. You know nothing of his work, and judge him on pettiness and pretense because he's not Beethoven or Mozart or Grieg or Tchaikovsky.
@@GuukanKitsune That was seriously one of the most uneducated comments I've ever read. You clearly have absolutely no knowledge of music. John Williams is an ignorant child compared to Beethoven, Mozart, and all the others you listed. You're the only person dumb enough to think that false. Also, Mozart definitely produced way more emotion than Williams. By a long shot. And crescendos and fanfares don't make a piece simple, which you stupidly assumed I meant, therefore proving your lack of knowledge of the subject matter, which would, for a normal person, give them the opportunity to realize they should shut up. I guarantee I know more about John Williams than you, and the fact that you seriously compared him to Beethoven and Mozart is the most addlepated thing I've ever read. How dare you compare Williams with Vivaldi's complexity. The trivial, simple ET suite compared to the four seasons? One of the dumbest things I've ever read. You keep baffling me. How could someone think that Williams can write something more complex than Vivaldi? You're fanboying over something you know nothing about, and you criticize me for something similar? If you would develop any form of education, you would quickly realize how pathetic any modern composer is to classical and romantic and baroque composers. The Night Queen's Aria is not supposed to be about anger, it's about being yelled at. And it does very well, the instrumentation perfectly represents it, and there are about 900 motivic connections and complexities that John Williams could never even dream of coming up with. And CLEARLY you've never actually heard the Hallelujah chorus. Because comparing it to that Duel of the Fates piece is insanely unfair. You're comparing something with virtually no music theory to something Handel wrote. Educate yourself before speaking, you wretch and dotard.
+Desmond Glover Hans Zimmer's music IS also emotion, as well as Ennio Morricone, James Horner, Thomas Newman. Every great composer writes music with emotion, it all comes down to which style you prefer.
HZ-FCB 97 true i just feel like while other composers write music to fit a scene, John Williams movie make scenes that fit his music. Tbh i just love John Williams and Hans Zimmer As Well. John Williams just edges him out a little because of his range of music throughout his life
An absolute waste of time to actually make a statement that only one composer of ALL composers is capable of writing music that evokes emotion. John Williams is one of the greats no doubt. Perhaps more brilliant than others, but it’s all subjective. So many others are brilliant as well. Jerry Goldsmith must be included on a list of the elites, but I would never say who is “better”. Just enjoy.
More than a Feeling... Where I met my future wife... The late Brad Delp brought me Here. ...I Closed my eyes and she slipped away. Thank You, Boston Third Stage RIP Brad Thank You
I remember seeing this image before and after Christmas '77 and on our several travels to holiday-cottage there were spots on the road exactly like that vision.
This theme to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', is Maestro John William's 'Gift', in remembrance to the childhoods of 'Baby Boomers'!! We, who had the greatest Christmases, toys, and longest childhoods; more than any other generations in the history of mankind--which is, of course, a testament to the mythic-sized love we received from our parents: 'The Greatest Generation!!! He is to be applauded for that!!!
Im really overwhelmed to say that this historic film changed my life for some adequate amount of curiosity to the mans seeking of understanding if we are alone in the universe
So many different musical flavors…sometimes eerie and mystical, sometimes subtle, other times angelic and spiritually uplifting. Full of brilliantly composed passages that trigger deep emotion and make one ponder new possibilities that may not have been previously considered, both as an individual and for humanity at large.
I just adore John Williams score writing! Always have! No-one comes close! It's beautiful music in it's own right, but as a backdrop to the films he scores it is mesmerising. He can do Happy, sad, downright creepy and all stops in between. A true master! (:o)
Throughout my 45 years of living, I have seen things outside of participating in war, that would break down the strongest human being. Brutality, extreme poverty, cruelness, death and dying, man's inhumanity to man. I was always indifferent. never felt sympathy. However, every time I see the ending of CET3, or listen to the respective soundtrack, I break down like an old grandmother at a wedding.
Just watched this on Netflix. Instantly one of my favorite science-fiction films of all time. It's definitely rougher than E.T., but that was expected, and that's certainly no pull on the quality of this picture. It's aged pretty darn well, too. In the end what else can you say--it's Spielberg and UFOs. Few do sci-fi better :) OH, I know what else you can say....JOHN FREAKIN' WILLIAMS, that's what lol
The score to this film by John Williams is one of his best, if not the best. Watched the film again and am still amazed at how magnificent the score is, especially from chapter 21 ( where the writing for the french horns is extraordinary) to completion. It is such a marvelous film, which I had forgotten that Steven Spielberg had written the story. I know he directed it.
the climax 7:00 makes me long for the cinema of the 70's. That sense of fantasy and adventure we used to have. I'm not saying we don't have it anymore, its just its become somehow diluted as times gone on.
Great theme by John Williams. I used to watch the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind a lot when I was growing up. Who knows if we'll ever have experiences of being visited by beings from another part of the universe based on how the movie portrays it?
7:20 and again around the 8:00 mark is such an easy place to spot the similarities between Williams’ soundtrack for this film and Star Wars. Masterpiece soundtrack to go along with a masterpiece of a movie. John Williams=🐐
(Good Times) Good Times, because (Steven Spielberg) is a great genius, he and (George Lucas) are wonderful both one and the other, ah! and not to mention Gene roddenberry (star trek), they are all just wonderful hugs to all of this great channel stay with God NOTE: John Williams is the best without a doubt, his music as a soundtrack is simply fantastic .... wonderful.
On ne dira jamais assez combien ce compositeur est GENIAL!!! Et d'autres comme John Barry,E.Morricone , le regretté M.Kamen (disque avec Metallica entre autres) etc... Sortons les mouchoirs!!!
I haven’t listened to all of his work, but this seems more INSPIRED than most of the soundtrack gigs that we know him for. I LOVED HIM as a kid and he was one of the main reasons that I got into music. But all we generally know of his music are these catchy hooks and sweeping romantic melodies written for Hollywood. While this treacle puts worms in your ear, it doesn’t really rise above WINDOW-DRESSING for a Hollywood movie… however, THIS sounds like a proper orchestral piece. I need to check out what else he did. I would assume that he did more with his time than simply scoring Spielberg films!!
@megaexplosions That, actually, is one of the more notable things about this composition - Borrowing the 1st 14 notes from Leigh Harline's iconic, instantly recognizable song was a brilliant stroke by JW -Remember, this movie, unlike all the scare tactic alien-genre films, eg. "Independence Day", etc., this film was communicating the holistic wonder of possibility in such a contact -And, the moment you've pointed out clarifies and underscores the intent -It's that 'smile 'n ahhh' moment...
Because Pinocchio, the movie, plays a small role in the plot of Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, John Williams's score quotes "When You Wish upon a Star".
i'm a man of 70 years and every time i see the movie and hear this inspired music of John Williams, i go into another world, well up with emotion and end up totally choked and in tears. You don't sit through the film, you transcend to another place brought to you by two very special people.
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One of the best films ever made the soundtrack is a masterpiece.
Absolutely! The most perfect and eloquent response I have ever read. ❤
Thankyou Lou; i'm touched by your generous comment. ❤👌@@loucazin543
That's the sign of a masterpiece. 👌👍@@DMorgan72
It's almost impossible to accept that Close Encounters didn't win Best Original Score until you realize that it lost to John Williams again for Star Wars! Few people in any area have meant more to movies.
He won for both scores let’s be real, and repeated greatness of composing two of the best scores in history in 1993 with his Oscar for Schindlers list, and he also did Jurassic Park that year
I went to see "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" when it first came to movie theaters and was blown away by the movie and the musical score. I was so enthralled by the music I bought the album!
☆☆☆☆☆
😎
My favorite movie of all time. The music is otherworldly as well xoxo
Possibly John William's most angelic, and riveting soundtrack. Mixes of fear, sadness, joy, and wonder all rolled into a single most authentic ensemble. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind to me was 'The' movie that Steven Spielberg created to show us that we are not alone. Seeing those wonderful flying UFO's back then was the ultimate scene of fantasy. Douglas Trumbull who did the special effects was brilliant with the shots of Flashpoint Photography. Seeing a large ship landing in front of the secret servicemen at the base of Devil's Tower was sheer genius. Close Encounters is the pinnacle of movie making, and in 1977 this was quite the achievement to give the audience the most room for their imagination. This movie will live on as the most influential film of our time. All other films of today is just window dressing.
+Chris Sorensen Ahem - cough - Star wars.
I love star wars too but on a different level. I'm just saying that John Williams has achieved such brilliance with this movie to allow the audiences imagination to run wild. Star wars was the pinnacle to action scifi films, and deserved every academy award, but close encounters will remain as the most influential for those people like myself as to - are we alone in this great big playground we call the universe.
Ahem - cough - Jurassic Park
...based on real events.
Yes I know I read about how Steven Spielberg wanted make a film based on an actual landing somewhere in Kentucky or was it Michigan. I would have to look for the story again to be sure, but yes the story was about a real landing, and meeting with specific key personnel who attended the event. An incredible time for those who wanted nothing to do with the cold war or any other forms of wars. Hopefully the next time a landing is made it will be in full view of the public without the so called authorization from our governments. Besides... meetings like that is meant for everyone. Not those who deem themselves smarter or technologically advanced than others. Just like Roy Neary. All he was... was just an electrician who wanted answers. Like everybody else on this doomed planet.
"They haven't even aged. Einstein was right."
"Einstein was probably one of them."
This movie is a cinematic gem.
GOD BLESS!
JESUS SAVES!
@@derekroush5237 Is it really necessary to advertise your belief system everywhere? Dude, we're listening to a theme song for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Read the room. I'm an atheist and I don't feel the need to go to random comments and say "god isn't real" so why do you feel the need?
As much as I love this film that Einstein line was always cringey
The most ethereal, spiritual, emotional, and beautiful music ever written for a motion picture. The vibrations of Love courses through every note.
John Williams is truly the greatest and most prolific composer of the 20th Century. He has created some of the most iconic musical compositions and will probably be remembered alongside the works of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and the other great masters.
He is considered a modern classical composer. And, although there are hundreds who compose for movies, none have or will ever hit the bar Sir John Williams sat so high, with a career that spans 8 decades. (Although he was composing/arranging in the mid/late 1940’s, he is first credited in 1952.).
John Williams music should be classified as a drug.
Got that right!!
it is addicting
Yes a drug of the heavens. I called a super natural high on steroids Gods steroids.
True
Jacob Furrow you dummy
I'm as drawn to this music as Roy Neary was to Devil's Tower. More than four decades later, and I still tear up listening to John Williams brilliance in this piece. Such a wonderful part of the soundtrack of my life.
Listen to “Over The Moon” from “E. T.”! The piano is transcendent. Even his “Wizard Of Oz Suite” is a roller coaster of emotions.
John Williams most underrated and beautiful soundtrack
It was nominated for an Oscar...
The only thing that kept John Williams from winning an Oscar for one of his movie scores was himself doing another score
Am I the only one listening to this? It's bloody marvellous.
Me too
John Williams is the greatest unknown to the mainstream musician in human history. His music is recognized globally. Star Wars, ET, Indiana Jones, Fiddler in the Roof, Jaws, Superman, and Close Encounters to name but a few. Most of these pieces are known to all, but not the composer. John Williams rivals even my favorite composers of the baroque through classical periods. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, et al are now joined at the table of musical masters by Mr. John Williams...
4:28 was the "Wish Upon A Star" always there... Love this Theme, it really says the movie.
It might be a sly reference to the fact that Dreyfus' character wanted to take his kids to go see pinochio.
holy shit
Spielberg originally wanted to have wish upon a star as the finale song, but decided to go with William's score instead
Yes. It plays during the final credits theme as the ship rises away from Devil's Tower.
@@chandlerj333 "How old are you?"
"Eight,"
"You want to be nine?"
"Yeah"
"Then you're gonna see Pinocchio tomorrow night "
Dear GOD... this 7:01 never fails to put a smile on my face
It gives me the shivers
@@mskittyvaleria Shivers of excitement?
@@stevensanchez2951 Hmmm, no. Just the goosebumps lol
Sir John Williams…
THE MASTER!
I saw this when it premiered. I remember during the credits, I just sat there with my eyes closed and absorbed every note. And, in the car, I broke down and cried, because the music is so amazing and beautiful.
No matter how many times I’ve watched this movie, the intro still makes me giddy with excitement.
There has never been anyone like Sir John Williams! And, there never will be.
I would always start crying around 6:08 on. There's just something that hits me deep in my heart, every time. Gotta love that John Williams magic...
It's a great moment, but he borrowed the theme from Respighi...check out Botticcelli Triptych, The Birth of Venus: czcams.com/video/hgO3JugGMm0/video.html
Williams is a modern day Beethoven. Emotion, story telling through his music: power, drama, intensity, gaiety, whimsy... Pick a movie theme, and you will SEE the movie when you hear the notes. Just as I see the landscape(s) when I hear Beethoven's 6th, see and feel power and drama when listening to the 5th. Timeless and amazing are both.
He is indeed! Modern day Beethoven!!!
6:48. Magnificence,Pure Magnificence begins its tenure....
John Williams was really associated with Steven Spielberg which explains why a lot of Spielberg's films music (except 5 films) was composed by Williams, All hail the GOAT.
What is it with this theme that it makes me cry every time? It really takes me to an other world 😊 Beautiful beyond words
It does to me too, unexplainable
My fav all time movie absolutely stunning effects story acting everything
For good reason, John Williams is acknowledged as the best of film composers. The work of John Barry deserves an honorable mention. In both cases, such wide range and impact, their music such a memorable part of movies.
the first 35 seconds are masterful john williams is a beast
Those first 35 seconds are my favorite
Probably one of the most underrated movies out there
Of all of John Williams great Movie Scores, there is no doubt that his score for Close Encounters is quite simply the best. It has everything, and elicits every emotion. Nobody does it better than the Maestro himself, John Williams.
John Williams's music is the tumultuous synthesis of Stravinsky, Mahler, Copland, and Bernstein, in one!!! This is why he is on 'Short List' of 'Most Favorite Conductors'!!!!
Beautiful score,brings tears to my eyes 😢😢
One the most electric openers in movies to date. John Williams captured that wonderful mood of how our senses can work in over drive. Mixed with Spielbergs vision and Douglas Trumbulls special effects, we were given a beautiful movie unlike any other. A marvel in movie magic, with brilliant grandiose UFO scenes, and a heart felt feeling that leaves us wanting to see more.
I think Steven Spielberg said once that this film was his best work. I know I consider it to be.
The Great Mizuti he did what interview?
Terry Smith This is your brain on drugs.....crack cocaine in particular.
It is
Greatest score man gets me all the time wasn't born in this time but seen this movie in mid 2000s because im a 2000s baby but i really love this movie so much
I'd Love to see a Sequel (Return of the third kind)
7:33 is why you are here.
@Justin Grynkewich Lol still here after so many yrs
Yes, actually XD thanks
Thanks!
If only the president played that part right 😔
john williams is truly an amazing composer
I love how this song starts out, imposing and grand and sinister, then, slowly becomes wonderous and hopeful, then in the end, triumphant and joyous and majestic.
It's like John Williams took the movie story and condensed it into pure music.
Fear and imposition... Aliens are doing something unknown to people for purposes we don't know.
Wonderous and hopeful: Aliens are MAKING CONTACT with people, still for reasons we don't know... Scary but exciting, but they don't seem to mean us harm.
Joyous and majestic: They wanted to MEET US. Peacefully. They've been studying us at least for decades, and now they think we're ready to meet directly.
Pure joyous crescendo and fanfare: They met us, and we met them. They took ambassadors from our world... Mostly people we picked, but ONE person that THEY picked managed to work the invitation out and make it to the meeting place! Earth has just joined the interstellar community... Maybe secretly, but... They thought we were ready and we passed the test they gave.
Quiet hopeful upbeat ending: the ambassadors are on their way to the stars, and so is mankind... Maybe not officially yet, but the aliens have accepted us and seen we can accept them.
The entire plot, in music form.
It's not a song.
@@PubicGore Wow. I make a lengthy emotional analysis of this brilliant musical composition regarding how ingenious it is that the entire orchestral suite goes through all the emotional themes of the film in the exact same order and all you took away from or decided to add to the conversation was that I was technically wrong about a single split hair in the first couple words.
That seems to me to be a bit petty.
@@GuukanKitsune No, it doesn't. And frankly, it's not that ingenious of a musical composition. John Williams is a modern composer, so fundamentally his music is quite simple in comparison to classical music. And if you're going to bother to attempt to state this piece is masterful, you should take the time to educate yourself to the fact that it's not a song. Also, all you demonstrated is how completely ignominious and terrible other modern composers are.
@@PubicGore Ah, yes, you must be one of those 'the old artists were better' types, who judges the work of today as worthless because they're not the works of centuries-dead men.
Also, obviously you nothing about John Williams' work if you think of him as 'just another modern composer', because he likes crescendos and fanfares, traditionally simple affairs. His mastery is, and always has been, emotional depth in composition. His compositions might be simple but they masterfully evoke feelings and themes in perfection. At a word he can evoke feelings of sinister apprehension or childlike wonder.
Mozart couldn't even do that... The Night Queen's Aria is supposed to be anger, for frig's sake, and sounds like joy more than anything.
Listen to the ET suite and tell me that's not on par with Four Seasons in complexity.
Listen to Duel of the Fates and tell me it's not more intricate and complex than the Hallelujah Chorus.
You judge a man who has been KNIGHTED for his services to music, based on when he composed, and with no real idea of the broad range of his skillset.
His haunting, sad, patriotic military elegy he wrote for Saving Private Ryan.
The rolling, adventurous fanfare of Indiana Jones.
The wonderous fanfare he wrote for Star Wars that is on par with any opening to any opera.
Battlestar Galactica suite being a sinister but hopeful military fanfare... Written for a mainly SYMPHONIC orchestra with the addition of ONE and ONLY ONE trumpet to evoke a single military sentinel standing as guardian over a civilian migration across the sweeping emptiness of space.
The swashbuckling flying melody he wrote for Hook, evoking childlike wonder and joy with every note.
You know nothing of his work, and judge him on pettiness and pretense because he's not Beethoven or Mozart or Grieg or Tchaikovsky.
@@GuukanKitsune That was seriously one of the most uneducated comments I've ever read. You clearly have absolutely no knowledge of music. John Williams is an ignorant child compared to Beethoven, Mozart, and all the others you listed. You're the only person dumb enough to think that false. Also, Mozart definitely produced way more emotion than Williams. By a long shot. And crescendos and fanfares don't make a piece simple, which you stupidly assumed I meant, therefore proving your lack of knowledge of the subject matter, which would, for a normal person, give them the opportunity to realize they should shut up. I guarantee I know more about John Williams than you, and the fact that you seriously compared him to Beethoven and Mozart is the most addlepated thing I've ever read. How dare you compare Williams with Vivaldi's complexity. The trivial, simple ET suite compared to the four seasons? One of the dumbest things I've ever read. You keep baffling me. How could someone think that Williams can write something more complex than Vivaldi? You're fanboying over something you know nothing about, and you criticize me for something similar? If you would develop any form of education, you would quickly realize how pathetic any modern composer is to classical and romantic and baroque composers. The Night Queen's Aria is not supposed to be about anger, it's about being yelled at. And it does very well, the instrumentation perfectly represents it, and there are about 900 motivic connections and complexities that John Williams could never even dream of coming up with. And CLEARLY you've never actually heard the Hallelujah chorus. Because comparing it to that Duel of the Fates piece is insanely unfair. You're comparing something with virtually no music theory to something Handel wrote. Educate yourself before speaking, you wretch and dotard.
John makes the sound magi in movies.
Magick?
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MAGIC!!!!!
I am big fan of your videos, good sir. Is it true that you're not actually slavic?
I first saw this this movie yesterday. I liked it so much I saw it again today.
This theme is stuck in my head.
He used some of the phrasings from this score in the ET score. The references are subtle, but if you really listen, they are unmistakable.
i dont think theres an arguement for John Williams vs Hans Zimmer . John Williams Music IS emotion it is the very definition of emotions
+Desmond Glover Vangelis
+Desmond Glover Hans Zimmer's music IS also emotion, as well as Ennio Morricone, James Horner, Thomas Newman. Every great composer writes music with emotion, it all comes down to which style you prefer.
HZ-FCB 97 true i just feel like while other composers write music to fit a scene, John Williams movie make scenes that fit his music. Tbh i just love John Williams and Hans Zimmer As Well. John Williams just edges him out a little because of his range of music throughout his life
Hans Zimmer doesn’t come close
An absolute waste of time to actually make a statement that only one composer of ALL composers is capable of writing music that evokes emotion.
John Williams is one of the greats no doubt. Perhaps more brilliant than others, but it’s all subjective. So many others are brilliant as well. Jerry Goldsmith must be included on a list of the elites, but I would never say who is “better”. Just enjoy.
His music epic and perfect for films he scored for. Close Encounters my favorite movie of all time.The score is a freaking masterpiece.
4:57 is where the main theme...truly begins.
Agreed.
More than a Feeling...
Where I met my future wife...
The late Brad Delp brought me Here.
...I Closed my eyes and she slipped away.
Thank You, Boston
Third Stage
RIP Brad
Thank You
The greatest Steven Speilberg film ever, of all time! With brilliant music to boot!
Still a beautiful soundtrack to a true classic.
I remember seeing this image before and after Christmas '77 and on our several travels to holiday-cottage there were spots on the road exactly like that vision.
This theme to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', is Maestro John William's 'Gift', in remembrance to the childhoods of 'Baby Boomers'!! We, who had the greatest Christmases, toys, and longest childhoods; more than any other generations in the history of mankind--which is, of course, a testament to the mythic-sized love we received from our parents: 'The Greatest Generation!!! He is to be applauded for that!!!
Im really overwhelmed to say that this historic film changed my life for some adequate amount of curiosity to the mans seeking of understanding if we are alone in the universe
Now that’s what I call a “Close Encounter”! 👽
Im playing this is orchestra this year and im very excited cause this is one of my favorite movies!!!
GOD BLESS!
So many different musical flavors…sometimes eerie and mystical, sometimes subtle, other times angelic and spiritually uplifting. Full of brilliantly composed passages that trigger deep emotion and make one ponder new possibilities that may not have been previously considered, both as an individual and for humanity at large.
this is a masterpiece!
I just adore John Williams score writing! Always have! No-one comes close! It's beautiful music in it's own right, but as a backdrop to the films he scores it is mesmerising. He can do Happy, sad, downright creepy and all stops in between. A true master! (:o)
Throughout my 45 years of living, I have seen things outside of participating in war, that would break down the strongest human being. Brutality, extreme poverty, cruelness, death and dying, man's inhumanity to man. I was always indifferent. never felt sympathy. However, every time I see the ending of CET3, or listen to the respective soundtrack, I break down like an old grandmother at a wedding.
wow, so how are you today? I hope you are okay
One of the best openings ever.
Just watched this on Netflix. Instantly one of my favorite science-fiction films of all time. It's definitely rougher than E.T., but that was expected, and that's certainly no pull on the quality of this picture. It's aged pretty darn well, too. In the end what else can you say--it's Spielberg and UFOs. Few do sci-fi better :)
OH, I know what else you can say....JOHN FREAKIN' WILLIAMS, that's what lol
great movie, scared the shit outta me as a lil kid lol
The score to this film by John Williams is one of his best, if not the best. Watched the film again and am still amazed at how magnificent the score is, especially from chapter 21 ( where the writing for the french horns is extraordinary) to completion. It is such a marvelous film, which I had forgotten that Steven Spielberg had written the story. I know he directed it.
this is such a great film
the climax 7:00 makes me long for the cinema of the 70's. That sense of fantasy and adventure we used to have. I'm not saying we don't have it anymore, its just its become somehow diluted as times gone on.
Brilliant!!!
The Late 70's Summer Blockbuster Movie Trailer. On T.V. in 1977 creeped me the hell out. Still does along with the entire Williams Score.
Always makes me cry when we humans meet the aliens. Love, love, love this movie!
This is probably his best work. There’s a lot of Ligeti in this
CLASSICAL MUSIC AT ITS BEST... Period.
The scene when barry and his mum were terrorised by the aliens before they snatched him haunted me for ages after and i was 10 yrs old at time
El sol salio anoche y me canto.
Hit #13 both pop and AC in Billboard. God bless!
John Williams was da shit. He did more more with three notes than others did with the entire scores.
The only, ONLY thing wrong is the cliche ET's desing. But thats one of those "edge of our seat" movies.
Fabuloso. Maravilloso. Delicado.
The beginning was definitely inspired by Gyorgi Legeti's atmospheres
Amazing
One of the Best..
Let's face it we are only listening to this awesome music because we all want to meet other people from across the stars....say it ain't so..
Great theme by John Williams. I used to watch the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind a lot when I was growing up. Who knows if we'll ever have experiences of being visited by beings from another part of the universe based on how the movie portrays it?
I can't wait to hear this in theatres on September 1st. All time favourite movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean's score is quite memorable, and the LOTR score is beautiful.
god i love this song, especially the second half where it really takes off.
John Williams has composed some brilliant music
7:20 and again around the 8:00 mark is such an easy place to spot the similarities between Williams’ soundtrack for this film and Star Wars. Masterpiece soundtrack to go along with a masterpiece of a movie. John Williams=🐐
i think that there is a simililarity between the film and pinocchio... the insertion of that fragment is simply brilliant...
What a year for movies!!!
john Williams and Steven Spielberg are a brilliant combination
05:00 to 05:28; my absolute favorite part of this whole piece of music! Lovely! (Huge sigh...)
(Good Times) Good Times, because (Steven Spielberg) is a great genius, he and (George Lucas) are wonderful both one and the other, ah! and not to mention Gene roddenberry (star trek), they are all just wonderful hugs to all of this great channel stay with God
NOTE: John Williams is the best without a doubt, his music as a soundtrack is simply fantastic .... wonderful.
On ne dira jamais assez combien ce compositeur est GENIAL!!!
Et d'autres comme John Barry,E.Morricone , le regretté M.Kamen (disque avec Metallica entre autres) etc... Sortons les mouchoirs!!!
Many thought this is a scary movie, like Poltergeist, but I thought it was beautiful than scary.
This, Star Wars and Superman´s music will be next century (if not indeed to day) classic music. THATS ALL.
Don't forget Indiana Jones.
goospimples everytime!!
I wanna go to his concert and rock out!
Greatest SiFy Film ever made. this if the flim that got me in to SiFy as a kid
G, A, F, (octave lower) F, C
What scale are you using? My scale goes like (B, Csharp, A (lower octave) A, E)
Rumpelstiltskin was able to spin straw into gold, play John Williams can spin thought and emotion into gorgeous music♥️♥️♥️
Yes. The melody is from a song "When you wish upon a star" which was written for Disney's Pinocchio movie in 1940.
I haven’t listened to all of his work, but this seems more INSPIRED than most of the soundtrack gigs that we know him for. I LOVED HIM as a kid and he was one of the main reasons that I got into music. But all we generally know of his music are these catchy hooks and sweeping romantic melodies written for Hollywood. While this treacle puts worms in your ear, it doesn’t really rise above WINDOW-DRESSING for a Hollywood movie… however, THIS sounds like a proper orchestral piece. I need to check out what else he did. I would assume that he did more with his time than simply scoring Spielberg films!!
beautiful violins❤
@megaexplosions That, actually, is one of the more notable things about this composition - Borrowing the 1st 14 notes from Leigh Harline's iconic, instantly recognizable song was a brilliant stroke by JW -Remember, this movie, unlike all the scare tactic alien-genre films, eg. "Independence Day", etc., this film was communicating the holistic wonder of possibility in such a contact -And, the moment you've pointed out clarifies and underscores the intent -It's that 'smile 'n ahhh' moment...
Dont forget this is alluding to When you Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio.
It sounds like combination of Holst and Ligeti.
This is beautiful.
Those are memorable, at least in my opinion. And yes.
Because Pinocchio, the movie, plays a small role in the plot of Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, John Williams's score quotes "When You Wish upon a Star".