Let me tell you one last story: About 12 years ago, maybe 13, Chris Nolan phoned me and asked me if I wanted to do a Batman movie. Of course I wanted to do a Batman movie and more than that: I wanted to work with Chris Nolan. But I had a problem: I didn't know how to be Batman and split my personality and become the smart and elegant Bruce Wayne. So, Chris suggested tha I called my friend James Newton Howard, who is one of the most brillant and elegant wonderful composers. And after we went to London, with our friend Niel West, the four of us together came up with Batman Begins. We never thought about a sequence or anything like this. A few years went by and one day Chris turned up in my studio and he start telling me the story of the Joker and he told me a story of Anarchy, he told me a story of a punk attitude to music, to acting. And I said to him: who is going to be the actor in this? Who is going to play this Joker? And he said to me: Heath Ledger. And Heath was an incredible performancer, totally fearless, totally on the edge, totaly out there. Everyday when we saw him was just amazing. Just before we finished the movie, we found out that our Heath had died. And I thought I should turn the music down, I thought it was all too much and i suddently realised that the only way to truely show respect to this performance, to give respect to the man was to keep the edges in it, the razer blades, the steel, the broken glass. And a few years went by and Chris said: come on, we get finish the trilogy, we owe it to ourselfes. And so, Dark Knight Rises came out. Somehow, we found the playfulnest again, the experimentation and all that stuff was all back and we did the movie, we fineshed it, we went to New York, we had an amazing premier. Next morning, we got on a plane and we arrived at London, I went to my apartament and a journalist was in the phone. He said to me: What did I feel about the mass shoting when they was showing our movie in the small town in Colorado called Aurora. And I haven't heard of it and I said: devastated, the first word that popped into my head. And I realised that everybody was going to use that word, and I don't use words. Words aren't the way I express myself. And all day I was thinking about the victms and their families, and the loneliess that they must have experienced. So that night I phoned Mthiyane and I said: can we do something? Can we do a piece of music with no words? That should feel that we are streching our arms out all the way across the Atlantic to the small town in Colorado and let them not feel alone anymore, let them know that we are thinking of them, let them know we are filling the empityness in their hearts. And the world hasn't got any better, and tonight we are here in Prague. And we are streching our arms out and we are playing and singing from our hearts for you. Ladies and gentlelman, this is: Aurora.
Tra pochi giorni ricorre l'anniversario di questa terribile strage. Non bisogna dimenticare. La musica di Zimmer rafforza nei nostti cuori di fare quslcosa, anche piccoli gesti di amore che possano contribuire risanare le ferite del nodtto mondo❤
When we did Batman Begins, we never thought it would end up as a trilogy. And maybe to you it's three movies but you have to remember for us it turned into 12 years of our lives. A lot of stuff happened in that time. And it all started with Chris Nolan phoning me and asking me if I was able to work with him and do a Batman movie. Of course I was able to work with Chris, but the more I thought about it, the more I started to have concerns that I didn't know how to solve - how could I be so dark and, let's face it, dramatic and at the same time be the elegant Bruce Wayne, and split my personality that way? So Chris came up with the idea that I should invite my friend James Howard who is the infinitely more elegant and brilliant composer to come aboard and be Bruce Wayne. So the three of us set off to London, we wrote the movie, had a great time, finished it, people seemed to like it. Didn't think much more about it. And a couple of years later, Chris came over to my studio and started to tell me a different story. He started to tell me the story of the Joker, he started to tell me about anarchy, and the punk attitude, and the fearlessness. And I said to him, "Who's going to play this character?" He said, "Oh, this young actor called Heath Ledger." And let me tell you when Heath came in, every scene we saw, he was fearless. He truly was that character. He just got into that role and he was brilliant each time up on the screen with us. We loved every moment of watching his performance; his daringness. Right towards the end of finishing the movie, we heard that our Heath had died. And it was a terrible shock. And at first I thought, in the sorrow that, everything I was doing, all the punk stuff, all the hard edges, all the rusty nails, all that stuff, the broken glass attitude - I needed to tone it all down. But I realised the only way to really honour the man and honour the performance was to keep the edge, to keep the rust and razor blades across the rusty strings. And a while later, Chris came to us and he said we do owe it to ourselves that we finish this trilogy, and we get back into it, and we get back into the inventiveness of it all, and we did Dark Knight Rises, and we had an amazing premiere in New York, and we go to the plane after the premiere, and we go to London for our premiere, and I remember arriving at my flat at 7 o'clock in the morning and the phone is ringing. And a journalist, he's asking me what my reaction is to the terrible shooting that occurred at the screening of our movie, in this small town in Colorado called Aurora. And I haven't heard of it, we were on the plane when it aired, and of course I said what everybody else said, I said "devastated." And all day I was walking around thinking of the victims, thinking of the loved ones he left behind, and how the word "devastated" was just not enough. And I phone my friends in the choir that night, and I said, "Can we record a piece of music, wordless, that feels like we're stretching our arms out across the Atlantic, we're stretching our arms out all the way to this small town in Colorado called Aurora, and we're hugging these people, we're hugging the loved ones that are left behind." And you know something? The world hasn't gotten much better yet - if you look at Syria, if you look at the Middle East, you look at Paris, you look at Venezuela where my friend is from. And on this stage, there are musicians from all nations, from all continents, and when playing, we play nice together. And maybe, maybe there's just a little glimmer of something that can be learned. And tonight, all we want to do is play from our hearts and stretch our arms out and embrace you, Brisbane, with our music, from our hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, this piece is called Aurora." - Hans the Legend
I downloaded this to my playlist on amazon music NEVER hearing this....I found myself crying and holding back my tears on the bike at the gym - being a first responder and MEDIC brought back all the feelings from the shooting in Aurora - this was his true feelings and true feelings that music can bring you.
James Newton Howard and Hans zimmer are the only composure I feel emotion from- they are the only composers I cry with. I listen to so many composers, and they are the only ones who can. They are musical gods. I was lucky enough to see Hans zimmer when he came to Colorado in 2017, and it was amazing, i will totally go see him again if he comes back
