Avengers: Endgame - Composer Alan Silvestri on Scoring the Big Battle

Avengers: Endgame - Composer Alan Silvestri on Scoring the Big Battle

Avengers: Endgame hit theaters around seven months ago, but being honest with yourself, has there really been a day since then you haven’t thought about the moment Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) radios in, “On your left“? The climax of the Russo Brothers‘ grand MCU finale in which our dearly-departed dusted returned from their Infinity War fate is one of the decade’s most goosebumps-worthy movie moments, and so much of that has to do with “Portals“, the slow-burn music that carries it all the way to Captain America (Chris Evans) delivering one last “Avengers, Assemble”. So needless to say, I jumped at the chance to chat with Alan Silvestri, the Oscar-nominee who scored Endgame, as well as Infinity War, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Avengers. (He’s also the mind behind the Back to the Future theme, legitimately one of the all-time greats.)

According to Silvestri, the big third-act return almost sounded a lot different. Instead of a single, unifying theme, Silvestri and the creative team toyed with the idea of the music changing as each hero arrived, similar to the entrance themes used by professional wrestlers.

“We tried a number of things. I think the “Portals” event was clearly this challenge to Joe and Anthony about this, ‘We’ve got to really get this right.’ And the material that we ultimately used for that was new material in Endgame. There are all these events going on. There’s Cap, then the Wakandans come in, then Dr. Strange appears…there was a temptation, and we actually explored it, to be making moves [with the music]. With, ‘And here! And here!'”

More specifically, Silvestri noted that the idea wasn’t to mash together individual character themes—the “Wakanda” theme just smashing up against, like, the operatic-as-hell “Doctor Strange” does not work—as much as it was to make a much bigger sonic deal out of every single portal opening.

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https://collider.com/avengers-endgame-battle-scene-music-alternate-versions/

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