Joel P West on Composing the Music of ‘Shang Chi’ and Tony Leung’s Villainous Score

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It’s not often that the villain’s theme is transformed into the hero’s music in a comic book movie. But that’s what happens in ShangChi, and there’s solid reasoning behind it

It’s not often that the villain’s theme is transformed into the hero’s music in a comic book movie. But that’s what happens in “Composer Joel P West spent two full years thinking about, writing and recording the score for the latest Marvel movie.

While Cretton’s background is Japanese-Okinawan, and he grew up in Hawaii, West has no Asian ancestry. So he spent months researching the vast treasury of Chinese music. Yet, he says, “the core of the music hopefully lies within emotional family themes that aren’t distinctly Asian but, at times, have pieces of that ethos or sprinkles of these beautiful sounds that come from traditional Chinese instruments.

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