Tema: Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018)

No es más que un ejercicio de nostalgia para recuperar a un público, especialmente el que crecimos en esos maravillosos 70 y 80, y en el que en mi opinión, se ha quedado a medias. Steven lo sabe muy bien, de tonto no tiene un pelo, pero hace falta mucho más que meternos con calzador, tal personaje o cita de nuestras películas favoritas. Ese niño que llevaba dentro no da más de sí, lo que tenía que decir, dicho está desde hace años. Ready player one, es un quiero y no puedo, pero al menos un intento más loable de entretener que sus últimas realizaciones comerciales, la soporífera mi amigo el gigante o la aburrida War horse.
¿Lo que más me ha disgustado? el (habitual hoy día) abuso de las cansinas imágenes generadas por ordenador. El pensar que se hubiera hecho con este material hace 25/30 años cuando él estaba en plena forma...ainsss
¿Lo mejor? personalmente lo que más he disfrutado ha sido el ir adivinando todas esas referencias a películas...que no es decir mucho a su favor
Es lo que esperaba ver, así que no puedo decir que me haya sido una decepción. En conjunto y como entretenimiento funciona, y sus 2:15 de metraje no se resienten. Pero no señores, no esperéis ver al Spielberg en plena forma con el que crecimos, ni tan siquiera a sus más vapuleadas por crítica y público 1941 o Always, que aun por loca y ñoña respectivamente, aplastan y de lejos al visionado de Ready player one.

Le doy un 6 no más.

Hay un tema principal definido y perfectamente estructurado y temas secundarios por doquier. La mezcla de sonido reverencia el clasicismo del score.

Cito extractos de una entrevista reciente a Silvestri por parte de LA Times.

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"Of course it kills both me and John to have missed two opportunities to collaborate over the last three years," Spielberg said in an email. "We are more than just collaborators. We are brothers."


Zemeckis is the Spielberg to Silvestri's Williams: The pair have been inseparable since 1984's "Romancing the Stone." Spielberg mentored Zemeckis since his student days at USC and produced the younger director's "Back to the Future" series and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" — overseeing the work of Silvestri.

"There was a family-once-removed kind of relationship there," says the composer.

So with some intimidation, Silvestri took the reins normally belonging to the legendary composer of "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park." He confessed up front that he wouldn't be able to provide expert demos on the piano like Williams does — so Spielberg sent him off with an early cut of the film, scheduled a full-day orchestra session for after "The Post" wrapped and had Silvestri begin writing his score with total freedom.

A few weeks later, Spielberg flew back to Los Angeles and arrived at the Sony scoring stage with no idea what to expect. The first thing Silvestri conducted, with the director characteristically sitting eight feet away, was a brass fanfare for an early scene.

"It ended," Silvestri says, "and Steven popped up out of his chair, raised his right hand and said 'Sold!' "
That anthemic, ceremonial fanfare became the main theme of the film.

"It was the most loving way to audition me," Silvestri says. "We hugged each other, and what we walked out with was: 'This could work. We can do this.' And it was that lovely every step of the way."

Silvestri recorded 30 minutes of music that first day, and much of it remained in the final score.


He and Spielberg then set about the more normal back-and-forth collaboration for the remainder of the score. Silvestri wrote a nostalgic, wistful theme for both eccentric creator Halliday (Mark Rylance) and the film's young protagonist, Wade (Tye Sheridan), who share a pure-hearted love of virtual reality wonderland OASIS

Spielberg praised Silvestri for giving his film "a lot of exhilarating propulsion. His music is not subliminal accompaniment, but it's a central character and is intended to be noticed in a big way. Like John Williams, Alan understands the purpose of tailoring the themes you walk out of the movies humming in order to identify characters, and the epic movements in movies that are designed to be somewhat operatic."

"It's incredible that there is this chance to write melodic, orchestral, thematic material, and there are folks that still want that," says Silvestri, who also just finished scoring "Avengers: Infinity War." "We have Mr. Williams to thank for showing us, clearly, the power of thematic material in a motion picture, over and over and over again."

Williams, 86, even showed up at the scoring stage one day and sat with Spielberg while Silvestri conducted his score.

"I felt so supported by both of them," Silvestri says. "I did my work. I felt confident about it. Steven seemed to really be liking what I was doing. And so it really was business as usual — with this surreal layer for me. To have been invited on this journey, and now see those two men sitting there — it was beyond beyond a wildest dream."