Anna Tyszynski

Unless you were there on the sidelines to watch the reenactment, that would have sucked.

Mushy shit.

Okay, it's time for our final fact of the show, and that is my fact.

My fact this week is that John Williams, the composer of soundtracks like Jaws, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, doesn't actually like film music.

Oh.

Doesn't like it.

This is probably the finest, certainly the most decorated person in the world of Hollywood soundtracking, and he says, I never liked film music very much.

He said, it can be good, but it usually isn't, other than maybe an eight minute stretch here and there.

I think that the music just isn't there, that what we think of as this precious gift film music is, we're remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way.

Yeah.

But he's very good at his job.

He's had 54 Oscar nominations.

That's more than any other living person.

I think he's only won five though.

So that's a lot of losses.

Yeah, I think it's more common as well than we realize that directors and people who have to watch the footage so much because he does compose to the footage.

He's watched it probably more than anyone else, just not in the final package, right?

Yes.

He was a session musician, by the way, before he properly got into composing his own stuff.

And there's one iconic song that I just didn't know he played a part in.