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Composer John Williams brings an ethnic quality
to the musical score of The Terminal. He notes, "I wanted
to create a musical portrait for Viktor that has an ethnic feel.
We know Krakozhia is located in Eastern Europe, so I featured a
clarinet in his themes, which is in the idiom of so much of Eastern
European music."
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Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks (Philadelphia,
Forrest Gump) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) star
in The Terminal, under the direction of Academy Award®-winning
filmmaker Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List, Saving
Private Ryan).
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The Terminal tells the story of Viktor
Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York City from Eastern Europe,
whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en
route to America. .
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Composer John Williams brings an ethnic quality
to the musical score of The Terminal. He notes, "I wanted
to create a musical portrait for Viktor that has an ethnic feel.
We know Krakozhia is located in Eastern Europe, so I featured a
clarinet in his themes, which is in the idiom of so much of Eastern
European music. I also included a cimbalom, which is indigenous
to Hungary, and the subtle use of an accordion, which were woven
into the orchestral texture to suggest Viktor’s origins and
culture."
Spielberg, whose association with Williams dates back to the director’s
first movie, The Sugarland Express, adds, "The music
captures the Eastern European flavor of Viktor’s character,
but never neglects the richly American sounds of Amelia’s story.
Then John wrote another beautiful theme that brings the two characters
together."
John Williams is one of the most esteemed and prolific film composers
of all time, and the recipient of numerous honors, including five
Academy Awards®, three Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy
Award, four Emmy Awards and eighteen Grammy Awards. Williams won
three of his five Oscars‚ for his work on the Steven Spielberg
films Jaws, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Schindler’s
List. His other Academy Awards‚ came for the unforgettable
Star Wars score and the scoring of the screen version of
Fiddler on the Roof.
A master of every genre, he has created many of the most familiar
themes in movie history, including the Oscar‚-nominated scores
for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman,
and all three of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones movies: Raiders
of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Williams’ other
Academy Award‚ nominations have included Best Original Score
nods for The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad,
Nixon, Sabrina, JFK, Home Alone, Born
on the Fourth of July, Empire of the Sun, The River,
The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, to
name only a portion.
Williams’ long association with Spielberg began with the director’s
first feature, The Sugarland Express, and has encompassed
almost all of Spielberg’s films, more recently including Minority
Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Williams’
latest film franchise credits include Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the
soon-to-be-released Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;
and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star
Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and the upcoming
Star Wars: Episode III.
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Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks (Philadelphia,
Forrest Gump) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) star
in The Terminal, under the direction of Academy Award®-winning
filmmaker Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List, Saving
Private Ryan).
Emmy winner Stanley Tucci (TV’s Winchell, Road to
Perdition) stars as Frank Dixon. Rounding out the main cast
of The Terminal are Chi McBride (TV’s Boston Public),
Diego Luna (Y Tu Mamá También), Barry Shabaka
Henley (Ali), Kumar Pallana (The Royal Tenenbaums)
and Zoë Saldana (Drumline).
Walter F. Parkes (Catch Me If You Can), Laurie MacDonald
(The Ring) and Steven Spielberg produced The Terminal,
with Patricia Whitcher, Jason Hoffs and Andrew Niccol serving as
executive producers. The screenplay is by Sacha Gervasi and Jeff
Nathanson from a story by Niccol and Gervasi.
If you travel by air, even occasionally, chances are you have been
stuck in an airport terminal at one time or another. "Almost
everybody has been stuck in an airport," director/producer
Steven Spielberg attests. "I don’t know anyone who hasn’t
spent longer sitting in an airport chair than on the airplane ride
itself at some point. Airports have become small microcosms of society.
There are places to eat, places to shop, places to meet people…"
It wasn’t until Spielberg read the new draft of the screenplay
that he made the decision to direct the film. "I had an immediate
affinity for Viktor’s story. I believe all of us have felt
a little bit like Viktor at some time in our lives—this displaced
person in search of a life."
That idea grew into the screenplay The Terminal, which told
the story of Viktor Navorski, an entirely fictional character from
the equally fictitious Eastern European country of Krakozhia, who
is en route to New York City when his country is torn apart by war.
Viktor lands in New York only to discover that his identity has
become a casualty of the war at home, and to be told that "America
is closed"…at least to him.
Parkes says, "This is one of those stories that is really about
the smallest moments of human interaction, and Sacha’s script
kept the story very intimate. It’s about a man encountering
a handful of people in a very closed environment, and yet there’s
this impression that, in a way, he’s meeting what America is
in this place. I think that makes the story truly interesting."
"I think Steven was very interested in and challenged by the
human comedy of this story," Parkes notes. "It’s
something he hasn’t done too much of, but is very good at.
Not unlike Catch Me If You Can, it’s the kind of movie
that allows him to stretch his comedic muscles."
"After Catch Me If You Can, I wanted to do another movie
that could make you laugh and cry and feel good about the world,"
Spielberg acknowledges. "I wanted to do something else that
could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more,
and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult
times."
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The Terminal tells the story of Viktor
Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York City from Eastern Europe,
whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en
route to America. Stranded at John F. Kennedy International Airport
with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter
the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the
terminal’s international transit lounge until the war at home
is over.
As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed
universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity,
generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance
with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank
Dixon, who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot
control but wants desperately to erase.
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1 The Tale Of Viktor Navorski
2 Dinner With Amelia
3 A Legend Is Born
4 Viktor And His Friends
5 The Fountain Scene
6 The Wedding Of Officer Torres
7 Jazz Autographs
8 Refusing To Escape
9 Krakozhia National Anthem And Homesickness
10 Looking For Work
11 Gupta’s Deliverance
12 Finding Coins And Learning To Read
13 “Destiny”… “Canneloni” … And The
Tale Of Viktor Navorski Reprise
14 A Happy Navorski Ending!
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Viktor Navorski Tom Hanks
Amelia Warren Catherine Zeta-Jones
Frank Dixon the airport official Stanley Tucci
Joe Mulroy the baggage handler, Chi McBride
Enrique Cruz the food service worker, Diego Luna
Gupta, the janitor Kumar Pallana
U.S. Customs Barry Shabaka Henley
Immigration Officer Ray Thurman
Dolores Torres Zoë Saldana
STEVEN SPIELBERG Director/Producer
JOHN WILLIAMS Composer
WALTER F. PARKES Producer
JEFF NATHANSON & SACHA GERVASI Screenwriters
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