Hans.Zimmer.Hollywood.Rebel.2022.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-NTb Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,280 Ladies and gentlemen, Hans Zimmer! 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,160 There's a word I don't use very often, which is "genius." 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,920 Hans Zimmer is one of them. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,680 He has the incredible capacity to reinvent himself 5 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,520 without losing his identity. 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:25,759 He's a storyteller. 7 00:00:26,759 --> 00:00:29,400 He tells stories with music. 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,879 {\an8}It's not a job. It's like a calling. It's like a crazy thing. 9 00:00:35,839 --> 00:00:38,600 I can't imagine not writing music. 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Hans Zimmer is the world's most sought-after 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,960 and prolific movie composer. 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,800 {\an8} He's written music for blockbusters, romcoms, animations, 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,519 and even iconic nature documentaries. 14 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,559 This is a dangerous place. 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,239 He's fascinated just by sound itself. 16 00:01:00,199 --> 00:01:04,440 He has all kinds of technical ideas and tricks going on at any one time. 17 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,160 Throughout his career, he's broken all the rules 18 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,160 {\an8} about how you compose music for films. 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,800 I don't think anybody's ever won an Oscar for a score 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,080 that blatantly is bagpipes, heavy metal guitars, 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,800 and a woman screaming at you. 22 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,759 This is great! 23 00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:23,880 He doesn't want to read a script. 24 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,679 He wants me to tell him, 25 00:01:25,679 --> 00:01:27,640 "What is the movie you think you're making?" 26 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,200 It's like being psychoanalysed. 27 00:01:30,839 --> 00:01:33,360 Even if you're not hearing what you want to hear always, 28 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,080 the project gets better every time it gets under Hans's microscope. 29 00:01:40,679 --> 00:01:42,759 He remains a child, in a way. 30 00:01:42,759 --> 00:01:45,399 You have to have that quality in order to, sort of, 31 00:01:45,399 --> 00:01:47,720 be a successful musician for all that time. 32 00:01:49,559 --> 00:01:52,199 I've been doing this for, what, 40 years? 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,240 Somebody the other day said, "When are you gonna slow down?" 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,360 "What do you mean, 'slow down'? 35 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,839 "I'm just getting going. 36 00:01:59,839 --> 00:02:01,320 "I'm just getting started". 37 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:28,519 Hans is experimenting with some ideas 38 00:02:28,519 --> 00:02:32,840 for the soundtrack of a new BBC natural history documentary. 39 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,040 I'm just trying to get you something that sounds remotely frozen. 40 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,600 I'm using a bit of noise, 41 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,400 make it a bit more tundra-like. 42 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:11,840 You know, I mean, I like the idea that there's a wind 43 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,959 rattling across everything. 44 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,280 I'm literally making it as we're talking about things. 45 00:03:21,079 --> 00:03:22,679 Er, let's say... 46 00:03:22,679 --> 00:03:25,920 Let's go and use this tool. 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,720 It's relatively chilly, but we can make it chillier. 48 00:03:38,359 --> 00:03:39,799 Bit of frozenness. 49 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,760 The problem is that the wind across a tundra 50 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,280 and bacon frying are very similar. 51 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,239 This is a stronghold 52 00:03:53,239 --> 00:03:56,880 for one of Antarctica's most remarkable inhabitants. 53 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,799 The seriousness and the depth that we bring to this project 54 00:04:07,799 --> 00:04:10,440 comes a lot from me being a kid. 55 00:04:14,359 --> 00:04:16,079 One of my main memories is, 56 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:21,159 just shortly before my father's death, where he took me to the Rhine, 57 00:04:21,159 --> 00:04:23,400 which was completely covered in foam. 58 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,000 And he was explaining to me, 59 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,039 "You know, look, we're destroying the world. 60 00:04:29,039 --> 00:04:31,640 "We now need to go and do something about that". 61 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,919 And I think it hugely influenced me in our work with Sir David Attenborough. 62 00:04:43,599 --> 00:04:47,360 Hans was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1957, 63 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,840 into a Jewish family. 64 00:04:50,919 --> 00:04:55,039 I knew what the Nazis had done to the Jews. 65 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,640 It would be brought up quite a lot. 66 00:04:58,919 --> 00:05:02,039 The fear was that, you know, "What if you tell the neighbours?" 67 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Your best friend can turn on you within one moment. 68 00:05:09,599 --> 00:05:10,919 While still a child, 69 00:05:10,919 --> 00:05:14,360 Hans's family was torn apart by a bolt from the blue. 70 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,760 The week before my sixth birthday... 71 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,840 My birthday was on a Sunday, 72 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,000 my dad died on either the Friday or the Saturday. 73 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,880 And on Monday, my mother, who was totally overwhelmed, 74 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,960 basically dropped me off for my first day at school. 75 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,280 It was like... 76 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:39,120 You know, all these kids, terrible teachers of an older generation. 77 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,440 Then came the moment where she said, 78 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,880 "You know, I think you should have piano lessons. 79 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,719 "Do you want piano lessons?" 80 00:05:48,719 --> 00:05:52,479 And as a 6-year-old, 7-year-old, 81 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,479 you think that stuff you hear in your head, 82 00:05:56,479 --> 00:05:59,200 a magical man is going to come 83 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,880 and tell you how to put it under your fingers. 84 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,000 Of course, that's not at all what happens. 85 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,280 Some horrible German comes, 86 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,080 who raps you across the knuckles if you don't play your scales right, 87 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,640 and if you're not, "Read, read, read, read, read!" 88 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,919 And to this day, if you put music in front of me, 89 00:06:16,919 --> 00:06:23,400 it just starts getting wobbly and swimmy, and defocuses. 90 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,880 Despite having only two weeks of formal lessons, 91 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,159 Hans found his home in music. 92 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,240 I play the piano because it put a smile on my mum's face. 93 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,560 It's the only reason. 94 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,440 It's not the only reason. It put a smile on my face too. 95 00:06:58,599 --> 00:07:02,400 Hans kicked against the rules, not just in learning music, 96 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,200 but in everything. 97 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,039 He was thrown out of eight schools in Germany 98 00:07:07,039 --> 00:07:10,400 for not conforming to the strict discipline demanded. 99 00:07:12,039 --> 00:07:15,840 The music teacher threw his chair at me. Erm, I remember that. 100 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,200 He always told stories of his childhood, 101 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,760 and all the shenanigans he g***t into, 102 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,760 {\an8}crazy thing in boarding school that g***t you kicked out, you know. 103 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,560 {\an8}He g***t kicked out of boarding school quite a few times. 104 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,719 I know my mum was really worried about me. 105 00:07:33,719 --> 00:07:36,080 I think everybody was really worried about me. 106 00:07:37,799 --> 00:07:41,599 Hans's rebellious streak led to his mother moving them to England. 107 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,960 There they found a progressive school where he could concentrate on his music. 108 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,840 On graduating, he followed his dream and joined a band called Krakatoa, 109 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,440 mainly playing working men's clubs. 110 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,840 ♪ Don't apologise It's not your style... ♪ 111 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,440 We were the entertainment nobody listened to. 112 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,719 We were so bad, up north, 113 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,400 we would be the support act to the strippers. 114 00:08:15,719 --> 00:08:19,400 ♪ Treat your mama good ♪ 115 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,159 And it was interesting, because it was the '80s, 116 00:08:22,159 --> 00:08:23,719 and it was Margaret Thatcher, 117 00:08:24,679 --> 00:08:27,080 and it was coal miners' strike. 118 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,840 Whoa, it was rough up north. 119 00:08:33,959 --> 00:08:36,120 People were so frustrated. 120 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,959 You know, you left London and you entered another world, 121 00:08:40,959 --> 00:08:42,439 you entered another country. 122 00:08:42,439 --> 00:08:44,880 And...