Some people bring résumés to job interviews, other people bring nearly six dozen symphony musicians.
“When Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel shatters the glass ceiling of solo superheroine cinema for Marvel Studios, she’s doing it to a score crafted by another woman making history behind the scenes.
With her orchestral music for Captain Marvel, Pinar Toprak becomes the first female composer to score a film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a goal she’s apparently been chasing for a while: She previously contributed music to Danny Elfman’s Justice League score, as well as to the first season of the Syfy series Krypton. “Believe it or not, it’s been a dream of mine ever since I can remember,” she told Vulture at the Captain Marvel premiere in Hollywood.”
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Note: as people have pointed out, the fact she got the job is great, but the way she got it doesn’t help people who can’t afford to hire an orchestra to make a demo video!
