ihearttitanic: In February 1997, James Cameron sent composer James Horner 36 hours of Titanic raw fo
ihearttitanic: In February 1997, James Cameron sent composer James Horner 36 hours of Titanic raw footage and told him, “Steep yourself in the footage and write Jack, write Rose, write the Titanic–however you want to break down the melodies in your mind. And when you have those, you’ll have done 90% of the work.” Three weeks later Horner was ready to demo for the director. He invited Cameron out to his studio and with no preamble launched into the Titanic theme on his piano. Cameron’s eyes were tearing up by the time Horner finished. The composer had two more melodies. One, more bittersweet, with a deep, melancholy underpinning, would be linked with Rose’s sadder moments and Jack’s death. By the time Horner finished, Cameron was crying. The music was everything he had hoped and prayed it would be, gliding from intimacy to grandeur to heart-wringing sadness. Effortlessly, the music seemed to bridge the 85 years between then and now. “I kept being told [the soundtrack] had gone gold, the song had gone platinum and the album had gone platinum then I started to know these terms but I’d never known them before and what the Billboard charts meant. The fact that a movie album could be a number one album of the year, not just in the movie genre but a number one album, it was the first time I sort of realized the dent that Titanic had made. A lot of people did say how inspired they were by the film, the music, by the whole emotional experience. People wanted to write music, they wanted to write songs, film scores, they wanted to get into music based on Titanic and I was very flattered.” – James Horner R.I.P. James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) -- source link