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Alan Silvestri started working as a composer for film music for the low budget 1972 film The Doberman Gang. Later in the 1970s, he worked on the popular cop show CHiPs (starring Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox) for a few years, before returning to a promising career in film.
Director Robert Zemeckis asked him to write music for Romancing The Stone and the Back to the Future films. In the 1980s he also scored both of the Predator films, which have since then been considered excellent examples of action/science fiction scoring with superlative suspense motifs.
Where the first Predator film presented action star Arnold Schwarzenegger in a life to death battle with an alien in the tropical jungle, Silvestri was able to retain the jungle motifs in his music for the second film, which was situated in an urban jungle. One of his most prominent scores of the late 1980s is for James Camerons The Abyss. Forest Gump, Contact, Volcano and Cast Away are some very fine examples of his work in the 1990s.
In later years, Silvestri has continued to create rousing scores for The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Currently he has also been active for MARVEL in composing music for Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers.
Alan Silvestri has also worked for television series of late: he composed the theme for Cosmos : A Space Time Odyssey. I personally would very much like to see Alan Silvestri score a James Bond film. I think he would be really good there but that is something I can only dream of, I am afraid.
Thank you, Mr. Silvestri, for some really great music !!!
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