[Nick Zwar]

When Hans Zimmer originally came to the scene, I really like RAIN MAN (catchy score), but didn’t pick up the soundtrack album (which seemed to contain only two tracks). Same with BLACK RAIN. Hans Zimmer was there, his music was effective in the films, but it wasn’t the type of music I sought out apart from the film. (Nowadays, I have both the Quartet and the La-La Land edition of BLACK RAIN.)

At that time, my primary interest in film music were composers such as Jerry Goldsmith and Alex North; I had to check which CDs I spent the little money on I had, and Hans Zimmer just wasn’t a priority.

I really started to appreciate Hans Zimmer more with THE THIN RED LINE, which was a very interesting movie (perhaps Terence Mallick’s best film) with a terrific score.