Hi everyone, how are you doing?
I am an Italian professional composer based in Los Angeles and a Stage 32 Thought Leader.
We all in this amazing community share the same passion, so I would love to hear from you: what was that made you fall in love with filmmaking?
For me it was watching classical Hollywood movies with my mum on Sundays afternoon when I was five. I remember I was completely mesmerized and I thought that music was the invisible, magical part of them. The first film I fell in love with is Breakfast at Tiffany's. What is yours? What ignited that spark?
Looking forward to hearing your stories!
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Elena Maro I guess it’s either 2001: A Space Odyssey or Lawrence of Arabia. How are you doing, Elena?
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I'm doing great, Elena Maro. How are you doing?
What made me fall in love with filmmaking/screenwriting? HARRIET THE SPY, OFFICE SPACE, JURASSIC PARK, IT, THE SANDLOT, LITTLE GIANTS, THE THING (1982), BEETHOVEN, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, TERMINATOR 2, SMALL SOLDIERS, JAWS, TMNT 1-3, LITTLE RASCALS, ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, TOY STORY, GOOD BURGER, etc.
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I am doing great, thank you so much Geoff Hall and Maurice Vaughan . It is always great to see you here, you guys rock!
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Elena Maro thank you, Elena. We appreciate you too. Just off for a break from the IYW. It’s Gin o’Clock in Bristol!
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You're welcome, Elena Maro. You rock too! I keep hearing about BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. I need to check it out.
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Heyy thanks for this .. passion following ✅ in .. Mac and me and rags to riches and Shirley temple on Sunday morning.. I know the stage and is where my heart belong. My personality has always been to big told always to hush until I walked away from the hushers to be me fully .
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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a great one. I keep waiting for someone to ask me to do Moon River so I can sit with it for a few days. So many great tunes came from movies of that era. All those things that Mancini, Grusin, Legrand, Bacharach, etc could do is humbling. Those guys have a lot to say. I was a child when I bought it, but I still have the Moon River 45 in the Breakfast at Tiffany's sleeve. That's a melody so strong that it could reach anyone, any age, stay with them a lifetime, and stand on its own. Few can do that. Bravo, Henry!
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Linwood Bell , totally, agree, and thinking that Moon River almost ended up on the cutting room floor... that's one great Hollywood story :) "After the first preview screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961, Paramount studio head Martin Rackin was impressed. “I love the picture, fellas,” he told the crew, which included star Audrey Hepburn and composer Henry Mancini, “but the f***ing song has to go.” The song in question was “Moon River”, sung by Hepburn’s character, eccentric New York good-time girl Holly Golightly. Mancini later recalled Hepburn’s outrage: she shot out of her seat and insisted, “Over my dead body!” ( source: The Financial TImes)
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Hi Elena
What made me fall in love with movies was seeing the original Frankenstein on TV one late night. I love horror movies and more so those with sorrowful, Ill-fated characters.
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Hi Elena Maro ! Always good to see a good friend who writes such beautiful music. I grew up in the 80s so pretty much any science fiction popular movie(s) and shows released in the 70s and 80s would be what made me fall in love with filmmaking. Star Trek would be close to the top of the list.
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Linwood Bell Moon River is a classic!
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Elena Maro ah Elena, what do studio Execs know anyway, eh?
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Elena Maro What an excellent question and meditation. Part of my passion for filmmaking is nastolgic. I probably watched over 1000 films with my dad, who once snuck me into a theater to see "The Verdict," which was a hard R movie -- when I was 9! The other part of this equation is my passion for music and aural story-telling. I treat both as evocative visual mediums. Marrying all of these elements together inspirea me to create worlds and environments that will move people the way I've been moved throughout my life.
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I grew up in NYC and one day after school my mom took me to where they were shooting a movie - THE IN-LAWS - in mid-town and I watched a scene get shot and I just couldn't get over the whole situation. The lights and cameras and trucks and people running around with walkie-talkies and Alan Arkin getting his make-up touched up in between takes and a whole table set up with snacks that people could just take and eat. It was magical. Then months later we went to see the movie and I saw the scene in the movie and it all just clicked. From that moment there was never going to be anything else worth pursuing.
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Thank you so much to all, loved reading your stories! I am full immersion in my studio this weekend finalizing a score delivery, but didn't want to miss the opportunity to pop in and say :"HI" to this fab community :)
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You're welcome, Elena Maro. Hope you're having a great time cooking up music! :D
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That's such a great question. It's not so much a single moment for as it seems it was inevitable given my upbringing in a one television house and my dad addicted to westerns and war movies.
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Thank you so much, Maurice Vaughan , just got the first two full mixes from the scoring engineer and couldn't be happier :D
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Very nice, Jill Gambaro. My brother was addicted to westerns, too and I have scored a few and really enjoyed it :)
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You're welcome, Elena Maro. Congratulations on the progress! Looking forward to taking a listen one day.
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Almost there, Maurice Vaughan, yay! :D