Personal quote There are composers where you can hear a distinct style after just several scores. And George Fenton is one of them. A trained composer who clearly loves the romantic and dramatic movies and tone, he also portrayed his style in some other genres. Yet it is the more romantic sound which overflows his career, efforts like In Love and War, Dangerous Beauty and Anna and the King, or the more fluffy scores like You've Got Mail. Of course, there is more that meets the eye with Fenton and on occasions he has stunned us with breathtaking heroic music (Memphis Belle), or with awkward and experimental efforts like the strangely nominated The Fisher King. Fenton has also been in contact with some comedy music but he has maintained his own voice during all these scores and that is what makes him very popular amongst several fans. And he all put that in his best score yet Deep Blue, a seeker and holder for fans. And its clearly that he has got the skills to make more fans among the way, if you hear the potential of that latest score alone. Biography George Fenton was born on 19 October in the year 1950 in London. Fenton started in the movie world with compositions for smaller low budget movies and TV series. Suddenly, his name became linked with Academy success, his score for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi was awarded with an Academy nomination, this in the year 1982. Still, he remained with smaller movie titles such as Clockwise, High Spirits and We're no Angels. Between that time he received both an Academy and Golden Globe nomination for Cry Freedom and a Academy nomination for the movie Dangerous Liaisons. Richard Attenborough thought that Fenton was the right composer for his movies and hired him later (after Gandhi and Cry Freedom) for Shadowlands and In Love and War. Fenton though remained scoring epic romantic and dramatic projects, with Memphis Belle, The Fisher King (4th Academy nomination), Final Analysis, Ladybird Ladybird, Land and Freedom, Mary Reilly, Ever After and Dangerous Beauty as the biggest names. Though romantic or comedic projects were also scored such as Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, You've Got Mail, The Object of my Affection and Anna and the King, which is a lovely score on itself. Deep Blue is one of Fenton's most acclaimed efforts, which is a culmination of the wonderful work he did for The Blue Planet. Further he scored comedies as Hitch and Bewitched, as the computer animated Valiant and the successor to Deep Blue namely Planet Earth, both the series as feature film Earth.
Three years ago when
I was asked to write the music, I imagined footage which would be awesome, terrifying and
magnificent. It is all of these things. From a musical point of view
you tend to write music that is about what it would feel like to be in that submarine
going down that deep. It would feel dangerous, it would feel dark, it would feel
courageous. You need it and want it to feel specific to the film it's for.
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