Composers, writers, musicians, and speakers…this project was only possible because of the people who have created these powerful and dark sounds. This is not a complete list, but I try to keep it as accurate as possible. If you hear something that is missing or have a better suggestion for a name, link, or anything…PLEASE let me know.
Composers
David Arnold, Klaus Badelt, Tyler Bates, Christophe Beck, Bill Brown, Paul Buckmaster, Charlie Clouser, Don Davis, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Clytus Gottwald, Harry Gregson-Williams, Ronan Hardiman, Gustav Holst, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Steve Jablonsky, Michael Kamen, Jesper Kyd, Dario Marianelli, Gerard Marino, Bear McCreary, John Powell, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Jeremy Soule, Michael Stearns, Cris Velasco, John Williams, Hans Zimmer
Writers
H.G. Wells
Musicians
The Dust Brothers, E.S. Posthumus, Lisa Gerrard, Juno Reactor, Vanessa Mae
Speakers
Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Writers
Aldous Huxley
Actors
Richard Burton, John Travolta
Spoken Word Transcripts
I realize that it may be hard to understand everything that is being said in those few moments where spoken words can be heard. This was intentional because you’re really supposed to focus on the music, except when it’s completely obvious. Besides, anyone addicted to soundtracks can tune the actors out when their favorite music is singing in the background. Sometimes the actor’s lines are included in the musical cue, which emphasize (rather than dominate) the musical point. I know some people would like to know what they’re saying, so I included them for you to read.
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Winston Churchill:
Ah, this is not the end. No, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
December 7th, 1941: A date which will live in infamy.
Adolf Hitler:
[If you can make a transcript of this section and/or translate it into English, please use the contact form to let me know. I would greatly appreciate it, and so would anyone else who listens to it.]
John Travolta (as Gabriel Shear from the movie Swordfish, written by Skip Woods):
You know what the problem with Hollywood is…they make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now, I’m not some grungy wannabe filmmaker, that’s searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it’s easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as prose. No, I’m talking about the lack realism…realism. Not a pervasive element in today’s modern American cinematic vision.
Aldous Huxley:
The intensity of the experience is entirely unlike, uh any ordinary experience. But on the other hand it’s uh, quite obvious it resembles spontaneous experiences certain artists and religious people have unquestionably had. It’s immense intensification of the world, the transfiguration of the external world into incredible beauty and, uh…significance. It’s also beyond this kind of aesthetic experience, I mean, the other experiences. Sense of, um…solidarity with the universe, solidarity with other people…it’s, uh…understanding of such phrases as read in the book of Job, ‘Yay, though he slay me, I put my trust in him,’ becomes quite comprehensible. This thing opens the door to these, uh…these experiences, which can be of immense value to people. If they choose to make use of them, or if they don’t choose to, I mean, this is what the Catholics call gratuitous grace. It doesn’t guarantee…salvation, or…is not sufficient and is not necessary for salvation, but if it can be collaborated with and used in, uh…in an intelligent way, it can be of immense help to people. The sense that in spite of everything–which, of course, is the ultimate, uh…I suppose the ultimate mystical conviction–in spite of pain, in spite of death, in spite of horror, the universe is in some mysterious sense all right, capital A, capital R.
