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I found a really awesome video essay on Wonder Woman her themes and thoughts on her theme music.

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So when it comes to scoring these kinds of (superhero) films you know you can just write a theme defining what the superhero represents and you’re pretty much done. But for wonder woman its not like that, for the majority of the film Diana is just an Amazon and doesn’t really ascend and become Wonder Woman until the very end. So instead of scoring this like a superhero film with just one theme expresses what the hero represents they needed to score Wonder Woman more like Star Wars. One of the biggest accomplishments of the Star Wars soundtrack is how (John) Williams didn’t necessarily score characters instead he scored ideas. And when we hear those thematic ideas being played for a specific character we get a better understanding of what the character represents.

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So by scoring ideas instead of just characters you can have characters be affected by the world around them and become agents that represent those specific aspects of your given world.

Hans Zimmerman and Junkie XL did the best they could with what they got from BvS, and as the video pointed out it is an awesome action theme but not enough of a basis for a character driven movie.

This is where I give Rupert Gregson-Williams, his theme, and Patty Jenkins were able to accomplish because they expanded on the action theme and build a whole new score for Diana that felt organic to her story.

It’s why I felt like Elfman’s use of the original ‘Is she with you’ score was the wrong musical cue to use at Diana’s first appearance. I feel like the music should have been the first few seconds of Amazons of Themyscira than the hard driving ‘Is She With You?’/’Wonder Woman’s Wrath’.

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What do you guys think?