[Mark Burgess]

This is actually a very interesting point. Is 2001 a film score? There was, of course, the awful period score written by Alex North that was not used (thankfully). The classical/modern music used by Stanley Kubrick was DJed onto the film, rather than written for it, but in my view it was one of the most inspired bits of spotting of all time. The use of music is perfect and brilliant. He even distorted Ligeti for special effect (much to Ligeti’s disgust) so it was adapted for the film I think that this use of music is so iconic, so inspired that it has never really been replicated since. But then we come to Aliens and other copies of the music. Was that really a score? When a director says “write me something that’s exactly like this”, then it is a score but is it an original score? James Horner complained about this a lot, and his own writing was packed with references to classical music: Strauss, Shostakovich etc.