To sync commentary: Push play on .mp3. As Fatboy counts backwards from 3, pause just before he says “Play.” Insert your DVD/Blu-Ray of “The Rock,” and a second before the Hollywood Pictures logo fades in from black, unpause the .mp3. Featuring Mike Russell of the Oregonian, Erik Henriksen of the Portland Mercury, and David Walker of Badazzmofo.com. Commentary fueled by pure Bayhem.
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damn fatty, you just dove into bay’s psyche like scrooge McDuck with a pool full of gold.
He’s a REALLY fascinating guy.
Got the following note from friend of the show (and serious film-score fan) Chris Walsh:
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“The Rock” is actually an exception that proves the rule of “Hans Zimmer farms out his scores to others.” He’s certainly done that — the bulk of the score to “True Romance,” for example, was actually by Mark Mancina, who got an “additional music by” credit at the end (shared with John Van Tongeren, I think) — but The Rock got farmed out to him. Zimmer wasn’t going to do it, but after the production settled on Nick Glennie-Smith scoring the film, Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t like the themes he was using and asked Zimmer to write some others for Glennie-Smith to use. Zimmer did so as a favor, and initially was going to go uncredited, but he did more work — he not only wrote the two main themes for The Rock, but also scored the bathroom standoff/shootout — and then Glennie-Smith got uncomfortable. Glennie-Smith told his agent that he didn’t want only his name on the composing credit since so much of it wasn’t his own music, so that resulted in the shared credit. Zimmer was getting better about shared credits around that time and since then has generally been better about sharing credit, even though I think that was a factor in “Gladiator” being declared ineligible for an Oscar nomination because he’d co-composed with Lisa Gerrard.