What is so special with Hans Zimmer(Batman-The Dark Night Rises)

I fall in love of background scores when I saw "The last samurai". My detailed and deep investigation revealed that almost all Hollywood movies which I have loved lot and which are still there on my personal computer(in-spite of having loads of development stuff, a running production server over, a full  fledged development system on it) have music-background score given by same man: Hans Zimmer. Once I got the fact that I love to watch movies just because of background score and almost my 50% review of whether movie is good or bad depends upon how was the background score of the movie, I tried to find out works by the Hans and other musicians.

 

With this I got to know great works by other few great people, John Murphy(Abhijeet Pathak introduced me to John murphy), James Newton Howard

(Blood Diamond fame),  Brian Tyaler (Fast Furious fame .... loves his all scores for Fast Five FF). All these people along with Hans are great musicians and have great profile, each one has given around 60-70 movies background score. But Hans stands out of them. Almost all the movies he has given score are the biggest box office hits Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Tears of the Sun, The last Samurai, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Pirates (fuck off that people who use there mobile ringtone as Pirates theme and dont know it is by Hans), Batman-Dark Night and my favorite one The Holiday.

What is so special with Hans music is he know how to blend traditional, tribal,  local music with the electronic one. Black Hawk Dawn .... master piece .. what a perfect blend of the Sumerian ... Somalian music with the electronic, his music made me serious about learning Sumerian, specially his song "Gortoz a Ran". In "Tears of the Sun" he blended west African music with electronic. While in "The Last Samurai" what a perfect Japanese music he has given. In Lobert Langdon fame "Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" he played europian sounds.

With this versatile mix of traditional music with mainline electronic, he has created  awesome background scores. His ability of smelling, sensing, testing music is way bigger, excellent, perfect. Day by day his music is getting mature and after listening score for Dark Night Rises am sure of that it will be big hit.

If you love Steven Spielberg, Mel Gibson, Christopher Nolan then you must respect Hans, If they are the great directors, think tank in different kind of cinema, Hans is someone who brings different king of great music.

All  the best for next success for Hans, "The Dark Night Rises".