Art & Creativity Quote by Maurice Jarre

Jarre is describing film scoring as a kind of moral weather system: not just “big” enough to match mountains and coronations, but psychologically fated enough to tell you the story’s outcome before the characters understand they’re already doomed. The key word here is “recreate” - his job isn’t to decorate the image, it’s to manufacture the majesty as an atmosphere you can feel in your chest. Adventure, in his telling, is a sonic promise: the audience should be swept up by scale and momentum.

Then he pivots to “frustration” and corrects himself to “curse,” which is where the real intent shows. “Frustration” sounds human and solvable; “curse” is mythic, irreversible. Jarre is signaling that the score for The Man Who Would Be King can’t simply cheerlead imperial bravado. It has to carry the rot inside the fantasy - two men who treat a foreign world as a stage for their self-invention, only to discover the narrative bites back.

That “even before happened what happens them” (his charmingly tangled phrasing) is basically a manifesto for foreshadowing. He wants the music to leak inevitability into scenes that might otherwise play as pure swagger, making the audience complicit: you enjoy the grandeur while being warned it’s purchased on hubris. In the context of 1970s epic filmmaking, Jarre’s approach is modern. The score becomes an argument, not a souvenir - lifting you into spectacle while quietly undercutting it with fate.