Supposed Music from the Film

Pardon my skreeonk, but HELL YEAH!

You know, I can actually sorta imagine this taking place in the airport scene.  It could play over the shots of the Muto destroying planes and killing people.  Then the final portion can play over that one shot of the chain reaction explosions before the track ends right when Godzilla's foot comes into view.

@Daikaiju_Danielle:

Skreeonk pardoned, and echoed by yours truly! :)

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@Junkerde

Knowing the tone of the movie is different from scoring the individual scenes. Jaws was a fairly horrific movie itself, but Williams' score was the epitome of energetic until Star Wars. Funny as Godzilla has also been compared to Jaws by the creators as well, no?

And no, from the three different versions of Ifukube's original score I currently own I can honestly say it was not dark "throughout". I'll repeat, "Godzilla didn't have "dark" "grim" music all the way through." Unless, of course, you consider these tracks to be dark, brooding lacking energy:

Main Title

Stormy Ootojima Island

Japanese Army March

Desperate Broadcast

And two of those themes reprise with variation more than most. You might be able to make a case for "dark" and "brooding" for Stormy Ootojima Island, but it still spirals into a piece no less energetic than the supposed Desplat piece that's been posted.

I also didn't say there was anything wrong with not liking it, last time I checked I wasn't bashing anyone for it either. However, I don't understand how fans can say it "doesn't fit" when they have no idea what the scene in question is and what kind of music it calls for.

Regardless, I'm going to call a spade a spade and a heart a heart. The music on its own is extremely well composed and well realized to my ears. Whether it fits or not has yet to be seen, but I'd trust Desplat's judgment over anyone on this forum.

Of course there's always the chance it isn't Desplat's work, in which case it's a solid piece unrelated to the franchise.

I'm not trying to say it doesn't fit the tone of the movie. 

I'm trying to say it doesn't fit the 1 minute clip playing on the website. 

I know thhe two don't have to be identical, and maybe I've gotten spoiled by John Williams and Hans Zimmer, but all of their various songs n' themes within a movie will have noticeable similarities even though the songs themselves are of course different. 

This new Fandango clip, and what they are playing on the official movie website, lack such similarity with each other. Each one would make a great addition to any dark movie score. But they just don't sound like they are from the same movie score as far as I'm hearing it. 

@gman2887

ok but your initial question was on how we knew if it would fit the movie's "mood" not a specific "scene" so now it's a different issue, which I addressed below in my comment about specific "scenes" in play. Also they say it's similar to Jaws in how Godzilla is hidden, which is only one element so we can't conclude it somehow borrows all the other elements of the movie.

I consider both the marches lighter in mood but again, we probably run into a more "opinianted" thing here because "desperate broadcast" and the "story" tracks sounded darker for me. And then again I explained myself on the whole specific scene in my post, we basically have the same idea about that, but the question was about the overall "mood" of the movie initially so maybe things were lost in translation.

Again like I said, I'm not a fan of it but I accept it and that it will do the job.

If this is indeed the 'opening theme' for Godzilla 2014, my initial thought was that it sounded remisniscent of Godzilla 1998's theme. Certainly not a good choice if you ask me, and hopefully this really isn't the opening theme for the new movie cos even the 98 theme sounds more 'epic' to me than the new one.

Godzilla 98 Opening

@Junkerde

Considering it is the scenes of this movie that ultimately make up the mood, the subject isn't far off. Desplat is obviously working with Edwards on this movie and the director/composer relationship is deciding what scenes need music and what kind of music. It may be safer to assume that Desplat's choices fit the 'mood' of the film just fine-- unless there's a complete lack of communication between Edwards and Desplat, (ala, Kitamura and Emerson on Final Wars) which is unlikely considering Edwards' work ethic. I trust that the music fits the supposed "mood" just fine.

@Destroyah-X

At the expense of sounding bias in my hatred for GINO, I've always found the '98 music to be a boring retread on the alien's main theme from Independence Day. Epic as it is, there's nothing there I found to be overtly interesting, musically. I find the sudden shifts in structure with the posted track to be much more interesting and unique.

OK, just to clarify, its confirmed this piece of music is from the movie correct?  

Not 100% confirmed GODZILLATHEKING123.

Fandango is offering a free music sample from the movie to anyone who pre-orders a ticket to a Godzilla showing. 

However, considering that few showtimes/tickets are availabe right now, not many people have acess to the genuine music sample. Combined with the fact that there have been MANY fan-made music samples that have hit the web, it's hard to tell whether this is the real Fandango deal, or just another fan-made creation. 

I'm not saying it's a fake. There's a good chance it's legit. But it's not '100%' confirmed at this time. 

As more Fandango tickets become available in the coming weeks, and more people access the free music sample, we will get a better idea of whether this is legit or not.

@gman2887

you were talking about one SCENE (singular) not "scenes" (plural) before. Again in which I adressed that "maybe its for the 1954 scene and it will fit" in my previous replies. So I'm not arguing that. It's now back to "scenes" as a whole, in which from various interviews and previews we can see it's going to be dark and serious. I'm not doubting Desplat, like I said before, he'll do the job.

Guys plz drop it! You have different opinions and that's that!

edit: wrong thread

It's how exactly how Desplat described it. Lots of brass, japanese drums and electric violin. That's what the funny instrument is, an electric violin. I hear lots of brass, japanese drums and the electric violin.