In many ways, the best thing about Sherlock Holmes is its score (released January 12), featuring exotic Hungarian and gypsy instruments. It’s one of about a hundred movie scores delivered by prolific German composer Hans Zimmer, who has earned six Oscar nominations; he won for The Lion King in 1994.
Articulate and charming, Zimmer invited me to his lair in Santa Monica, a sprawling complex housing other composers as well as rooms crammed with synthesizers, computers and towers of servers. He’s currently working on Inception for Chris Nolan, for whom he composed the score for The Dark Knight. He gave me a tour, showed me where and how he composes and explained his working process on the scores for Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated, Gladiator, and The Dark Knight. He even plays a bit.
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I love the music that Hans makes it lifts me and moves me. the man has a gift.
Looks like Inception is a very very hard movie to compose but Hans can do it, and he will do it.
Hans Zimmer doesn’t remember the theme he wrote a few weeks ago (!) The funniest thing I’ve ever heard;)
don’t worry, hans is sworn to secrecy, all you’ll see is the logo up on the screen, and a working project in cubase. Pretty darn exciting!
And he mentions something about having an "idea" and meeting up with a few musicians to record a demo.
Go ahead and watch it it’s the best interview ever
That was a cool interview.
Yes – great interview. Seems to catch Hans in his not so sure stage at the beginning of a project. Very honest. Nice man. And of course unfairly talented! :)
I have a question, which of these 7 videos includes music, scenes, pictures from Inception so i can stay away from it, because i don’t want to know anything about it till it comes out.