more super than superman

by Jørn T.

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Here is (probably) my earliest film music memory:

I was a big comic fan growing up, especially superhero ones like Superman, Spider-Man, Hulk, Batman and X-Men. I bought the limited comics we had available and I think it was around 1984 when I saw the movie Superman for the first time and it was awesome. I was only 1 year old when the movie originally came out so that's why I was late to the party.

I remember that white Warner logo zooming in. This was 1984 so I had the privelege of watching it on my dad's old TV which wasn't exactly top notch, even in '84. 

Then, that simple horn fanfare hit me and it had my full attention. Then a boy reading comics, like I did! Daily Planet coming in, the moon, we are travelling into space.... In steelblue neon with a sizeable swooosh sound comes "Alexander Salkind Presents", then by magic it shoots towards me and then it starts. The theme that still to this day blows me away. It's heroic, it's even more super than Superman. 

The volume suddenly found it's way to its peak and stayed there. Once the best intro ever was done, I rewinded and played it again. "Music by John Williams" flashed by and that was it, or it should have been it. The movie started and it was fantastic, so much that even in a 7 year old mind I forgot that I needed to get that music somehow and it was many years later before I finally got it on CD.

Still, Superman was with me all the way to adulthood and beyond and that theme was never forgotten and never will be.

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