Alan Silvestri's Influence On Contemporary Music

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I think a composer that has been a greatest influence on contemporary music in films has been Alan Silvestri. Alan Silvestri has had many impactful movies, like Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away and many more. I think Silvestri is a talented composer because his very talented way to tell the story with his music. He does a very good job in using music to create emotion, to describe a character, to tell a location and to create punctuation. I really like the music he created for Forrest Gump especially the feather scene in the beginning of the movie. I love the melody in that scene; it does a great job in represents the character Forrest Gump. Another character that he does very well in describing is Jenny; it’s interesting how he

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