The Weird Dreams topic (a.k.a Hollywood producers: shop here for movie ideas)

I love that last bit!

Wow. Matthew McConaughey could kick both Chuck Connors and Jack Bauers ass in your dreams!

I had a wonderful John Williams dream last night, which I memorized five times the moment I woke up. I need to write it down before I forget it.

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I had scheduled an interview with Williams for my magazine montages.no (similarly as I did with Goldenthal in Ghent a couple of weeks ago) by e-mail, and arrived at his house somewhere up in the mountains or countryside -- maybe the Boston area? It looked very plain and grey, though, just like any odd family house in smalltown Norway.

I can't remember if I rang the doorbell or just went inside, but I suddenly found myself in the hallway. At the end of it, I saw the living room where Williams was seated in a huge comfy chair, talking to some female associate of his. I wanted to wait untill he had finished, so I just went inside a storage room with windows. Outside was a small mountain creek and I watched as a pair of huge stone tablets floated by with a couple of trees on each.

Finally Williams came out and noticed me, although not particularly welcoming.

- "You did get my e-mail?" I asked

- "Yes, yes....", he said, but with a distant air.

- "OK, great, it'll just be 5-10 minutes, I promise", I said.

In fact, he looked as if he wanted to be somewhere else. Far too important to spend time with little me. Gruff, disinterested and distracted.

- "I love all the redwood trees in this area", I said, also noticing lots of tree sculptures, paintings, fountains and trees inside his living room (as you know, Williams has a fascination for trees). But I didn't get much of a response.

Finally we were seated in the living room area with the comfy chairs and I went straight into my first question:

- "So, Elliot Goldenthals's FINAL FANTASY score apparently cost $300 a day to make. What do you think about that?"

Then I went on to something with Michel Legrand after that. I can't remember what Williams replied, but I remember being very embarrassed and angry with my irrelevant questions now that I finally had the opportunity to ask anything.

What was very interesting, though, was how he completely changed character in the interview. Now he suddenly became the warm, softspoken gentleman we've seen in so many interviews.

At some point, we decided to go outside for the rest of the interview. There, we were seated at some wooden platform, and there were some other people sitting at another table nearby, as if we were on a public outdoor restaurant or something. Lots of trees and nature around, but still with a very Norwegian look, not American. The tone eventually improved, but all of a sudden Thomas and Gilles Glorieux sat down by the table. I was glad to see them, of course, but I needed to finish my interview and couldn't have more distractions.

Just then, we felt a few drops of rain and I saw dark clouds above. The interview fell apart, but even more importantly, I needed to get my photo with my composer hero before it was too late.

"The photos, I need to take some photos", I said, pulling up my crappy camera and starting shooting Williams as he rose from the table and, smilingly, stumbled towards me with a big plastic glass of beer. Then I quickly threw the camera to Thomas so he could take a few pics with me and him. He complied, but then he eventually metamorphosed into my sister. Gilles disappeared, but the goal had been achieved. Picture with Williams taken.

That's about what I remember.

The next part of the dream had nothing to with Williams, but a huge, 50-meter tsunami wave that was hurdling towards a small ferry between Norway and Denmark that I was on. I remember being on it and seeing it foaming and rising in the horizon as a gigantic wall of water and asking myself if I should stay outside or if I should go down below when it hits.

I really enjoyed reading that.
Thanks for writing that down for us, Thor.

I know.

Loved it Thor

As for the Tsunami dream I believe these are quite popular themes in dreams, I've had numerous big wave or tsunami dreams.

I guess I must want to go back to work even though I know I can't.
Tom

Thanks for writing that down Thor.

You know I had a dream about Hans Zimmer (several dreams actually in the weeks since Ghent) but I thought it was too stupid to write it down!! Now I read yours and it's not stupid at all.


In my dream Bregt and Elin were there too but Elin was also a lady from the Festival or perhaps she was a press agent, some kind of mix of people anyway. It was a week ago, I remember not all of it, just bits. The dream:

I did not meet Hans in Ghent personally and I didn't like that. But then a festival lady gave me a ticket for the next day because Hans would be in Antwerpen that day. I really wanted to take my chance but on the next day I overslept or something so I thought 'now I'm going to miss it' ! Still I tried to get there by train (I then had some weird dreaming about the trains and about a boarding school where I had stayed to sleep). I don't remember what happened next but then the festival lady and Bregt and Hans and me were sitting at a table for dinner. The table was square and kind of big and each sat at one side. I remember not feeling comfortable with that, because there was much distance between us all. The festival lady had turned into Elin there at the table by the way...

I don't remember much else from that dream except the mood and the place where the table was (like a cozy place to eat with brown wooden tables) . What I remember most is the atmosphere and a huge attraction between me and Hans, haha, it was really erotic I guess, but we were just sitting at a table really. Nothing happened, it was just the vibe of attraction. It was both nice and frustrating, because I wanted to hug him but I couldn't. In the end I woke up in love, thinking of his brown eyes and things like that...


Dreams can be stupid and fun.

No, I was just shocked you could betray poor Klaus like that!

Annoyingly I had a score-related dream last night....and I have NO idea any more what it was about!!!
I just remember that scores were involved.

Forgettable film scores ? Hm that must have been a dream about John ottman then.

the fact I morph into Thor's sister kinda disturbs me, kinda

LOL!

It must have been some sort of associative thing....seeing you two brothers immediately connected to my own sister. But it would have made more sense if it were my brother, at the very least.

She is, but she's taken, Thomas. Sorry.

Another film music-related dream last night.

I dreamt that Ford Thaxton(!) was establishing a soundtrack store in Oslo. A version of him, anyway, this one had a full, black beard, was bald and no suspenders. He looked like a young Rob Reiner. As no soundtrack store has ever existed in Norway, neither online nor brick-and-mortar, I was of course very excited.

Entering the rather small store with a huge crowd on opening day, I immediately went for a cheapie bin and found lots of treasures, among them Horner's COCOON (I have no particular interest in this score, but I assume it appeared as a lucrative object because of its collectability) and others I can't remember while the other non-soundtrack fans rummaged through the aisles. I was convinced that I had a huge advantage, being one of the few hardcore Norwegian soundtrack fans.

Anyways, I put the pile of collected CD's (all of them gems) next to me while I flipped through some CD's further on, but as I turned back, they had all gone! Who could have taken them? I looked around, and saw some potential thiefs, but I didn't know exactly who so it led to a sense of paranoia and anger.

He, he...

I wonder if it was triggered because of all the threads about the Family Store offers, and me wanting to "project" a similar situation to a Norwegian setting.