{"id":5178,"date":"2023-02-09T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2023-02-09T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T21:04:02","slug":"review-imperial-march-darth-vaders-theme-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/review-imperial-march-darth-vaders-theme-john-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8220;Imperial March (Darth Vader&#8217;s Theme)&#8221; &#8211; John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Imperial March (Darth Vader&amp;apos;s Theme)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2bw4WgXyXP90hIex7ur58y?si=NpwYoC0LR5mbuHkCXAiMvQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>You can always recognise a John Williams soundtrack. There\u2019s always an Easter egg from another. Or just the sheer ferocity. Or the romantic tenderness. It\u2019s hard to pin down a favourite piece by him, but this one stands out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subtitled Darth Vader\u2019s theme, this is written for the main villain in the original trilogy,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>what he stands for, the terror that he strikes in the galaxy with his terrifying breathing, and the forces he leads. When the intro starts you feel it in your belly. The notes are low, dark, clashing, dirge like, and\u2026 pure evil in its sound\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is from the second act of the original trilogy, and the film it\u2019s named after is \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d &#8211; Vader\u2019s angry after his humiliating defeat in the first film, and now he\u2019s back to get his revenge by any means necessary, and the presence of that anger is felt through this, though at 1:47 you can tell that there are moments of reflection and the key change shows the change of scene. The piece on its own tells a story, and you can compare this to Holst\u2019s \u201cThe Planets\u201d Mars Movement as according to legend was a big inspiration to George Lucas the creator of the Star Wars universe when thinking about the score for this. The chaotic outro at 2:38 is what nails it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One day I\u2019ll cover the Main Theme, and how that makes me feel but for now, I\u2019ll say happy birthday John Williams.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1696.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1696.jpg 220w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1696-45x60.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can always recognise a John Williams soundtrack. There\u2019s always an Easter egg from another. Or just the sheer ferocity. Or the romantic tenderness. It\u2019s hard to pin down a favourite piece by him, but this one stands out.\u00a0 Subtitled Darth Vader\u2019s theme, this is written for the main villain in the original trilogy,\u00a0 what &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,229,98,30,151,24,243,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-music","category-composer","category-film","category-music","category-orchestra","category-sci-fi","category-u-s","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}