Music - similarities to Schindler's list?

https://youtu.be/5ZSLPSfhA1w?t=3m45s

Since your technique to argue your point seems to be to ignore everything others say and then repeat your opinion, this is the last time I reply to you -- one last attempt.

There is no "previously composed music". Horner did not copy Prokofiev here. Repeating yourself won't make this true.

You found similarity in a melodic line. Similarities will exist in many ways, but they do not characterize theft.

The similarity you found (with Schindler's List) is extremely insignificant since it is based on two falling perfect fifths (like G, C, G, C). If you really could take 4 notes constituting the most common disjunct interval in American music and denounce theft, all film composers would have to start making dodecaphonic music...

Your fundamental mistake is excessive weight given to a tonal main melodic line. You talk about Prokofiev as if his chords weren't infinitely varied, as if his arrangements weren't incredibly original, as if the main melodic line constituted the "majority" of music. GCGC means much less than you think, those are only 4 notes in a sea of dots on the page.

Just try to imagine how many times this sequence of notes, GCGC, must have appeared already in 5 centuries of classical music. It has appeared in different contexts and in similar contexts. Beethoven wouldn't care a bit about you, he would never hesitate before writing GCGC once more if his narrative seemed to want GCGC.

Maybe you can argue the similarity goes on for 8 notes, not 4. Who cares? 8 notes with new clothes do create a new musical discourse, with a different meaning -- this is what you don't seem to understand.

Current Hollywood film composers could not approximate Prokofiev's music if they tried -- they lack his technique and his originality. (If you can't see this you haven't heard enough Prokofiev.) And they are not trying -- they are trying to appeal to the masses who don't have enough musical sense to appreciate even Prokofiev anymore. The poor guys have to convince film directors who are completely ignorant about music that what they've done isn't so bad...

To me you don't sound like you know much about music. You don't sound like you know what Prokofiev really means. And I'll bet you are just going to repeat yourself again, bringing nothing new to the conversation, again.

The remedy for you, if you are intelectually honest, would be to take some lessons in music composition. Then you would realize that the complexity of the craft is much higher than what you have been able to hear so far. 4 notes mean nothing in a complex musical discourse. Even if a whole melodic phrase were identical to that in another work, the simple fact that it is juxtaposed with something different that comes before, and something different that comes after it, would give it a different meaning.

The problem with Hollywood music isn't that they are emulating the masters. The problem is the opposite -- that they aren't trying to make great music anymore. The ignorant directors, always asking for "more emotion" (and less character), have won, and everyone now believes the public would not like to hear great music on a film. Thus minimalism is the way, and this unfortunate state of affairs already lasts 15 years or more.

You critique is incredibly misguided.