"composers for movies that Hans Zimmer can't do"
The panel of Hollywood music composers introduces themselves, ranging from movie veterans to a blackballed commercial writer and Hans Zimmer's 14-year-old son.
"My name is Karl-Heinz Stott. I am a movie composer."
"I'm Trisha Johnson, and I am a music composer for commercials. Or at least I was, I've been blackballed."
"I'm Diego Zimmer, Hans Zimmer's son. Excited to be here."
Harlem Shake reveals she writes original songs for every major movie using only her mouth, winning lawsuits to ensure her vocalizations remain in the final credits.
"All of your movies you do all of the sounds with your mouth."
"Wait seven minutes in pure black screen and then you will hear hurt me locker really, really quiet."
Diego Zimmer claims he wrote the bridge to Pirates of the Caribbean when his father, Hans Zimmer, stepped away to use the restroom. He demonstrates his percussive composition style.
"My daddy's like the godfather of this business. Hate to say that, but I mean you are all giants under him."
"I hear strings as drums, I hear flutes as drums. I love drums."
Harlem Shake explains that he is the 'voice' of movie scores, having sued the producers of Die Hard to ensure he gets paid $20k for every movie released, regardless of whether they use his vocalized theme songs.
"I made the Die Hard song that's... Die Hard, Die Hard, Bruce Willis crawling through the vent."
"I sued them and now I have to make the song for every movie. They pay me for it but they don't have to use it."
Diego Zimmer describes his process of 'picking up where his father left off,' specifically writing the bridge to Pirates of the Caribbean while Hans Zimmer was taking a bathroom break.
"He went to the bathroom, he left off, and I picked up where he left off and I wrote that bridge."
"I wrote the bridge of that track."
Diego presents an original composition for a Paul Thomas Anderson film. While the other composers interpret his drawing as a 'spotty dog,' he reveals it is actually about the 2008 stock market crash.
"I literally drew a peace sign."
"No, it's about the stock market crisis in 2008."
Harlem Shake reveals she writes a song for every movie released, earning 20k per track even if they aren't used. She demonstrates her rejected themes for The Avengers and Girls Gone Wild.
"Think of every movie you've ever seen and then times that by 20k."