Jurassic Park (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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One aspect of John Williams’ scores that often goes unnoticed is how <i>long</i> they are—in the case of 1993’s <i>Jurassic Park</i>, his work can be heard in nearly an hour and a half of a two-hour movie. It’s not that the music overstays its welcome. If anything, part of what made the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises so successful—and, in turn, made Williams one of the world’s few recognizable film composers—is how much the score drove the movie’s action and sustained its thematic mood. Like his work on <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i>, <i>Jurassic Park</i> is heavy on wonder—a function, in the former, of bearing witness to alien life, and in the latter, to the dinosaurs so miraculously reconstituted on Isla Nublar (“Theme From <i>Jurassic Park</i>”). But it’s also one of Williams’ scariest, most dissonant score, filled with shrieking strings (“The Raptor Attack”) and roaring brass (“T-Rex Rescue & Finale”) that mirrored sound designer Gary Rydstrom’s uncanny dinosaur sound. (Not that we know what dinosaurs actually sounded like, but still.) .

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