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Elmer Bernstein
American
Composer
Born:
Apr 4
,
1922
Died:
Aug 18
,
2004
Music
Think
Thought
Time
Today
You
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I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein
You
Emotions
Car
Intimate
Stay
Direct
More
Like
Comedies
Years
Westerns
Did
Prefer
Much
Really
Film
Away
Association
There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein
Music
Myself
Wish
Changes
Type
Way
Rap
Someone
Date
Write
Rock
Always
Rock And Roll
Nor
Up
Very
Up-To-Date
Roll
Worked
Hard
Who
Compete
Kept
You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
Elmer Bernstein
Time
Me
You
Parents
Own
Think
Out
Would
About
My Own
Supportive
House
Balanced
Came
Were
Very
Really
It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
Elmer Bernstein
Work
Great
You
World
Club
Way
Those
Security
Had
Days
Great Way
Were
Friends
Your
Associates
When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
Elmer Bernstein
Today
You
Feelings
Nowadays
Think
Films
Our
Alienated
Alienation
Colleagues
Kind
About
More
Contact
Stop
Where
Much
Many
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
Elmer Bernstein
Today
You
Harry
Joe
Something
Like
Patently
Ridiculous
Film
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
Elmer Bernstein
Time
You
Man
Young
Dances
Ten
Ten Commandments
Write
Had
He
Written
Arm
Became
Hired
Were
Been
Commandments
Score
Very
Same
Same Time
Golden
Victor
Then
Ill
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