Alien 3: Theatrical Cut > Assembly Cut (please hear me out)

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04-30-15 | 02:12 AM

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Re: Alien 3: Theatrical Cut > Assembly Cut (please hear me out)

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The only complaint I have about James Horner's Aliens score is in both the opening credits and end credits, he used some music composed by Aram Khachaturian called the Gayane Ballet's Adagio but the movie never properly lists the use of this music in the end credits.

Horner is absolutely notorious for never giving credit where it's due. He's stolen themes and pieces of music for well over a dozen of his scores over numerous years, this is nothing new.
You can find numerous videos on YouTube detailing this.

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04-30-15 | 09:43 AM

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Re: Alien 3: Theatrical Cut > Assembly Cut (please hear me out)

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Wow, there are a lot of YouTube videos of that. But James Horner is not the only one, Hans Zimmer seems to come up a lot in those videos too.

Here's one for James Horner's scores of Star Trek II and Aliens:

<iframe width="320" height="180" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nrGqP0MeY1I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Personally, I think it's ok for a composer to reuse a theme he wrote earlier and give it a reworked arrangement in some other composition. That's been common in music going back centuries (ex: J.S. Bach). The thing I don't like is taking someone else's music virtually unchanged and then not crediting it.