How to honour VANGELIS: Blade Runner 2049 - Film Score Analysis
Scoring Points: Neo-Retrofuturism - On the Music of Blade Runner: 2049 (Episode 7)
In this episode, we explore the incredible score of Blade Runner: 2049 (2017), composed by the legendary Hans Zimmer and (relative) newcomer Benjamin Wallfisch. Discover how their collaboration with Denis Villeneuve manages to follow and perhaps match the immortal score of the original Blade Runner film by Vangelis in an era of stagnating interest in reboots and requels.
📅 Episode Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:09 Revisiting an Icon - On Requels
4:21 The Replicant Factory - Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions
5:20 What Could Have Been - Johannsson's Lost Score
8:46 On Synthesis - Vangelis and Yamaha's CS-80
12:00 On Scale - Hapticity and Thematic Amplification
15:16 Themes (Love, Soul and Foreign Cultures)
17:03 Comparative Analysis Between Blade Runner and 2049
24:32 Bad Guy's Theme
25:57 Casanelle's Hyperorchestra
27:18 Sonic Stoicism - Scoring Males and Females
29:44 In Sum
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