To: All Film Music Community, Fans and Professionals
Dear film music lovers and fellows,
This petition is aimed to realize something real to celebrate a very special, unique composer and his wonderful music: John Williams.
So far, NOBODY tried to realize a long, well-made film documentary about John Williams and his art. Nothing exists like this. We're talking about the greatest, most-famous composer of our time, the author of countless great film music scores (Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Harry Potter, Superman The Movie, JFK, Jaws… only to name a few) and maybe the real "Number One" of this field.
With the advent of the DVD format, things started to change. Now we can see and hear Williams interviewed in many documentaries and special featurettes. But they're always scant 5-6 minute interviews, sometimes less or sometimes more. How great would be to see a 2-hour long documentary dedicated only to John Williams? A film documentary that shows all the creative process of the Maestro, from the spotting sessions with the director, to the writing and orchestration, up until the final scoring sessions, all this intercut with a career-retrospective interview. It would be great to see archival footage from old scoring sessions, to see Williams at work with directors and musicians, intercut with clips from films he scored.
All John Williams’ and film music aficionados would simply love to see something like this.
So, this petition is about this: a DVD Documentary on John Williams HAS to be made!
The petition is aimed to the people who can realize such an idea and that are close to Williams' camp, like Sony Classical, DreamWorks SKG, LucasFilm LTD, the John Williams’ agency (Gorfaine/Schwartz), maybe Steven Spielberg himself... because realizing such a thing would cost a lot of money, a lot of time for research and it's not an easy task to do. And only companies and personalities like these have the means and the money to do it. When a good amount of signatures will be reached, this petition will be sent to these people and companies.
I hope to generate support from the large film music community all over the world, from fans and professionals, from people who work in this field and people who simply love this kind of music.
A documentary about John Williams is not only a good way to celebrate the Maestro, but it’s also a great testament for future generations of film music and cinema lovers. It would be an amazing contribute to film history and literature too.
It's time to honor and pay tribute to John Williams and his music. And this is the bare minimum we can do to celebrate an artist who gave, and is still giving, such wonderful emotions to all of us.
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