Reply To: Do you separate between person and composer?

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GerateWohl
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I would say yes. I separate that mostly.
An other way around example. From everything I know and hear from articles, interviews and so on, I think that Hnas Zimmer is a really nice person. Highly creative and respectable business man who also contributes a lot to the industry and community and his fans. And I would really like to like what he does.
And I mean, he comes from my home country.
But actually, he stands more or less for a movie music that I despise with heart and soul. If you collected all the flaws from all soundtracks that I ever heard, take everything that I find defective, boring and sloppy in film scores and try to distil it into an own musical figure it pretty much is 80 to 90% of his work, at least the parts, that I know.
It breaks my heart. But that’s how it is.
How many films I felt were really pulled down by his music.
And the best I can expect is, that in movie context I find his music somehow ok and not too disturbing.
And I know, that’s more my problem than his.
But that’s how I feel.
Still I think, he is a nice guy and Hollywood is probably a better place with him than without him.