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

00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,Ladies and gentlemen, Hans Zimmer!

00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,There's a word
I don't use very often, which is "genius."

00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,Hans Zimmer is one of them.

00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,He has the incredible capacity
to reinvent himself

00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,without losing his identity.

00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:25,He's a storyteller.

00:00:26,759 --> 00:00:29,He tells stories with music.

00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,{\an8}It's not a job. It's like a calling.
It's like a crazy thing.

00:00:35,839 --> 00:00:38,I can't imagine not writing music.

00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,Hans Zimmer
is the world's most sought-after

00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,and prolific movie composer.

00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,{\an8} He's written music
for blockbusters, romcoms, animations,

00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,and even iconic nature documentaries.

00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,This is a dangerous place.

00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,He's fascinated just by sound itself.

00:01:00,199 --> 00:01:04,He has all kinds of technical ideas
and tricks going on at any one time.

00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,Throughout his career,
he's broken all the rules

00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,{\an8} about how you compose music for films.

00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,I don't think
anybody's ever won an Oscar for a score

00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,that blatantly is bagpipes,
heavy metal guitars,

00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,and a woman screaming at you.

00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,This is great!

00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:23,He doesn't want to read a script.

00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,He wants me to tell him,

00:01:25,679 --> 00:01:27,"What is the movie
you think you're making?"

00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,It's like being psychoanalysed.

00:01:30,839 --> 00:01:33,Even if you're not hearing
what you want to hear always,

00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,the project gets better every time
it gets under Hans's microscope.

00:01:40,679 --> 00:01:42,He remains a child, in a way.

00:01:42,759 --> 00:01:45,You have to have that quality
in order to, sort of,

00:01:45,399 --> 00:01:47,be a successful musician
for all that time.

00:01:49,559 --> 00:01:52,I've been doing this
for, what, 40 years?

00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,Somebody the other day said,
"When are you gonna slow down?"

00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,"What do you mean, 'slow down'?

00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,"I'm just getting going.

00:01:59,839 --> 00:02:01,"I'm just getting started".

00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:28,Hans is experimenting
with some ideas

00:02:28,519 --> 00:02:32,for the soundtrack
of a new BBC natural history documentary.

00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,I'm just trying to get you something
that sounds remotely frozen.

00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,I'm using a bit of noise,

00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,make it a bit more tundra-like.

00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:11,You know, I mean,
I like the idea that there's a wind

00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,rattling across everything.

00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,I'm literally making it
as we're talking about things.

00:03:21,079 --> 00:03:22,Er, let's say...

00:03:22,679 --> 00:03:25,Let's go and use this tool.

00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,It's relatively chilly,
but we can make it chillier.

00:03:38,359 --> 00:03:39,Bit of frozenness.

00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,The problem is that
the wind across a tundra

00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,and bacon frying are very similar.

00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,This is a stronghold

00:03:53,239 --> 00:03:56,for one of Antarctica's
most remarkable inhabitants.

00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,The seriousness and the depth
that we bring to this project

00:04:07,799 --> 00:04:10,comes a lot from me being a kid.

00:04:14,359 --> 00:04:16,One of my main memories is,

00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:21,just shortly before my father's death,
where he took me to the Rhine,

00:04:21,159 --> 00:04:23,which was completely covered in foam.

00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,And he was explaining to me,

00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,"You know, look,
we're destroying the world.

00:04:29,039 --> 00:04:31,"We now need to go
and do something about that".

00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,And I think it hugely influenced me
in our work with Sir David Attenborough.

00:04:43,599 --> 00:04:47,Hans was born
in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1957,

00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,into a Jewish family.

00:04:50,919 --> 00:04:55,I knew
what the Nazis had done to the Jews.

00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,It would be brought up quite a lot.

00:04:58,919 --> 00:05:02,The fear was that, you know,
"What if you tell the neighbours?"

00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,Your best friend can turn on you
within one moment.

00:05:09,599 --> 00:05:10,While still a child,

00:05:10,919 --> 00:05:14,Hans's family was torn apart
by a bolt from the blue.

00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,The week
before my sixth birthday...

00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,My birthday was on a Sunday,

00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,my dad died
on either the Friday or the Saturday.

00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,And on Monday,
my mother, who was totally overwhelmed,

00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,basically dropped me off
for my first day at school.

00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,It was like...

00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:39,You know, all these kids,
terrible teachers of an older generation.

00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,Then came the moment where she said,

00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,"You know,
I think you should have piano lessons.

00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,"Do you want piano lessons?"

00:05:48,719 --> 00:05:52,And as a 6-year-old, 7-year-old,

00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,you think
that stuff you hear in your head,

00:05:56,479 --> 00:05:59,a magical man is going to come

00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,and tell you
how to put it under your fingers.

00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,Of course, that's not at all what happens.

00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,Some horrible German comes,

00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,who raps you across the knuckles
if you don't play your scales right,

00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,and if you're not,
"Read, read, read, read, read!"

00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,And to this day,
if you put music in front of me,

00:06:16,919 --> 00:06:23,it just starts getting wobbly and swimmy,
and defocuses.

00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,Despite having
only two weeks of formal lessons,

00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,Hans found his home in music.

00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,I play the piano
because it put a smile on my mum's face.

00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,It's the only reason.

00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,It's not the only reason.
It put a smile on my face too.

00:06:58,599 --> 00:07:02,Hans kicked against the rules,
not just in learning music,

00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,but in everything.

00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,He was thrown out
of eight schools in Germany

00:07:07,039 --> 00:07:10,for not conforming
to the strict discipline demanded.

00:07:12,039 --> 00:07:15,The music teacher threw his chair at me.
Erm, I remember that.

00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,He always told stories of his childhood,

00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,and all the shenanigans he g***t into,

00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,{\an8}crazy thing in boarding school
that g***t you kicked out, you know.

00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,{\an8}He g***t kicked out of boarding school
quite a few times.

00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,I know my mum
was really worried about me.

00:07:33,719 --> 00:07:36,I think everybody
was really worried about me.

00:07:37,799 --> 00:07:41,Hans's rebellious streak
led to his mother moving them to England.

00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,There they found a progressive school
where he could concentrate on his music.

00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,On graduating, he followed his dream
and joined a band called Krakatoa,

00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,mainly playing working men's clubs.

00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,♪ Don't apologise
It's not your style... ♪

00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,We were the entertainment
nobody listened to.

00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,We were so bad, up north,

00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,we would be
the support act to the strippers.

00:08:15,719 --> 00:08:19,♪ Treat your mama good ♪

00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,And it was interesting,
because it was the '80s,

00:08:22,159 --> 00:08:23,and it was Margaret Thatcher,

00:08:24,679 --> 00:08:27,and it was coal miners' strike.

00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,Whoa, it was rough up north.

00:08:33,959 --> 00:08:36,People were so frustrated.

00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,You know, you left London
and you entered another world,

00:08:40,959 --> 00:08:42,you entered another country.

00:08:42,439 --> 00:08:44,And...