Talk:Hans Zimmer/Archive 2

Air vent "sounds like a Hans Zimmer film score"
No, it's not April 1, and this is probably WP:TRIVIA. The air vent concerned is here. By a stretch of the imagination, it does sound like the one-note Joker theme from The Dark Knight played on electric cello by Martin Tillman. It is probably the fact that the pitch of the air vent sound is close to D, which is Hans Zimmer's all time favourite note on the keyboard, that led to the comparison.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 09:59, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Blade Runner 2049
Re this edit: there is a longstanding problem with people adding every new Hans Zimmer film to the WP:LEAD. This leads to problems, because there is no obvious need to mention Blade Runner 2049 beyond the fact that this is his latest film, leading to a problem with WP:RECENTISM. The lead has tried to stick to scores that won major awards, rather than laundry listing scores without any attempt at establishing their notability.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 07:40, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Blade Runner 2049 is not listed under his 2010s scores. This should be added after the mention of him scoring Dunkirk.Evan iaslovits (talk) 15:08, 11 October 2017 (UTC)


 * All of the scores are in the separate article Hans Zimmer discography. Due to problems with space and WP:TOPIC it isn't possible to guarantee to mention all of Zimmer's score by name, or to discuss them in the article individually. The article is primarily a biography of Zimmer, not a list of or a description of all of his scores. There is some more detail about the score at Blade_Runner_2049.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 15:27, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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Zimmer, Holst and Gladiator
When the film was released in 2000, people soon pointed out the similarities between Zimmer's score and works by Holst and Wagner. In 2006, Zimmer was sued for copyright infringement. The problem was the "Gladiator Waltz" which as the name suggests, is in 3/4 time rather than the 5/4 time that Holst used for "Mars, Bringer of War". It is not strictly plagiarism, which would generally be note for note copying of all or a substantial part of a work, but the notes at the start of the "Gladiator Waltz" are pretty much the same as part of "Mars, Bringer of War". This is discussed here in the talk page archive, and it is unclear what became of the Holst Foundation's legal action. This edit was reverted because it is mentioned at Gladiator (soundtrack) where it is more on topic.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 13:09, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Zimmer and The Thin Red Line
Re this edit: it's true that The Thin Red Line isn't one of his most famous films, because it was an art house film directed by Terrence Malick rather than a summer blockbuster. In terms of importance to Zimmer's career and film scoring as a whole, it is probably his key work. It helped to establish him as the leading composer of scores for action and adventure films, and its style has been copied countless times since, not least by Zimmer himself. As the CBC article points out, "Time" from Inception is basically a reworked version of the four chord idea in "The Journey to the Line".-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 19:50, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Edit in career section.
In the section of this career regard 2000-2012. You should add that in 2006 Zimmer was sued by the London-based Gustav Holst Society for infringing copyright on one the movements from Holst's famous work The Planets. Engine V10R (talk) 19:53, 18 May 2021 (UTC)


 * See Talk:Hans_Zimmer/Archive_1. This is true but it is unclear what came of it. Most likely it fizzled out as no source can be found saying what became of this legal action. The Gustav Holst Foundation thought that the track in the score called The Battle, which is used in the battle scene at the start of Gladiator, infringed on Mars from Holst's Planets suite. Part of it does sound similar, but it is not note for note identical. Mars uses a Quintuple meter,, while the disputed theme in Gladiator uses , which Zimmer described as the "Gladiator Waltz". There are some plagiarism lawsuits like the one over Stairway to Heaven which are notable because they dragged on for a long time, made lawyers very wealthy and picked up a lot of media coverage. The controversy over the Gladiator Waltz has very little sourcing so it runs into problems with WP:DUE.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 20:24, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Stephen Hawking Medal
It's worth mentioning that Zimmer received the Stephen Hawking Medal, but this photo of the event isn't very good. It's hard to identify Zimmer due to the murkiness and his small size within the photo. It doesn't work well as a thumbnail for these reasons.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 09:44, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

BBC television documentary
There is an hour long television documentary on BBC2 this evening, Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel. This can only be watched by viewers in the UK, but it may turn up elsewhere and have reviews.  ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 08:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

MrBeast edit
Could we add back the MrBeast video? I don’t know how to edit myself but I noticed it was removed. 2601:84:4501:78E0:145:F1B:1B2A:6ECC (talk) 20:17, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Not notable enough to be included, in my opinion. –CWenger (^ • @ ) 21:30, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

"Hans "Long John" Zimmer" listed at Redirects for discussion
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