{"id":2360,"date":"2010-04-25T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2010-04-25T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T11:40:47","slug":"scoring-the-expendables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/25\/scoring-the-expendables\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoring The Expendables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/june\/060509expendable.jpg?resize=475%2C262\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>April 19, 2010<\/strong>, <strong>The New York Times<\/strong> posted an article titled:<em><strong> Summer Blockbusters Present Musical Challenges<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Although the article focused on the challenges of creating a new musical score for <em><strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong><\/em>, there was this interesting tidbit about scoring <em><strong>The Expendables<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;At one of our test screenings, we put a rock song over a big action sequence as an exercise and on the cards it got completely trashed,&#8221; notes Brian Tyler, composer of Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;The Expendables.&#8221; &#8220;People really hated it and asked why were we trying to make this into a rock video. We replaced it with orchestral music and the numbers for the film shot up and the notes on the music were great.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2010\/04\/19\/arts\/entertainment-us-scores.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the whole article here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 19, 2010, The New York Times posted an article titled: Summer Blockbusters Present Musical Challenges.\u00a0 Although the article focused on the challenges of creating a new musical score for Iron Man 2, there was this interesting tidbit about scoring The Expendables: &#8220;At one of our test screenings, we put a rock song over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-expendables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-C4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}