Retro Featurette for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Focuses on John Williams' Score
We've got a retro featurette here for you to watch from the 1980s for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. It focuses on composer John Williams and the musical score he created for the movie.
It offers behind-the-scenes footage of him seeing the final edit of the movie with George Lucas, director Irvin Kershner, and producer Gary Kurtz. What's interesting about this is that you get to see some rare footage of some scenes shot for the film without the beautiful musical score. Instead, you hear lots of bangs and hissing and barely audible dialogue from Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and even David Prowse as Darth Vader.
You also get to see footage from the film with a temporary soundtrack. It just goes to show you how powerful music is to the movie making process, especially when it's done by John Williams.
The featurette comes from Vashi Nedomansky, who offers the following description:
"Behind the scenes as composer John Williams wrote the score for The Empire Strikes Back. After viewing the final edit it took him 7 weeks to write the score before recording it with the London Symphonic Orchestra. This video focuses on the emotional scene where Han Solo is about to be frozen into Carbonite and shows the before and after of the filmmaking process."
Via: /Film