Recycled Soundtrack: Difference between revisions

* John Williams was too busy to properly do the music on ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets]]''. He managed to compose a few new themes ("Gilderoy Lockhart", "Moaning Myrtle", etc.) and then someone else (William Ross, specifically) was hired to create the ''Chamber of Secrets'' soundtrack out of the new themes and the themes from the previous movie, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. As a result, ''Chamber'' recycles a lot of musical cues from ''Philosopher's Stone''. For example, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHDb025oOo&t=0m41s pixie scene] uses the same music as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPUBXLGsdw&t=1m26s flying keys scene]. And the music from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQEcHwRCmo&t=2m38s end scene in the Great Hall] is a slightly remixed version of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIh-OmRGmU Leaving Hogwarts]" from ''Philosopher's Stone''. In fact, it seems Ross had go into Williams' non-''Potter'' work. The music used for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWESUQUS4tI&t=3m30s Quidditch trench chase] sounds a whole lot like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJ3CUGSmXk&t=2m33s The Chase Through Coruscant]" from ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''. (In subsequent ''Potter'' films, music from previous installments other than "Hedwig's Theme" was used very sparingly, resulting in Voldemort having no less than three [[Leitmotif]]s at different points in the series.)